Lisa Delan - And if the Song be worth a Smile on Super Audio CD
Lisa Delan - And if the Song be worth a Smile
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Bolcom: 4 Cabaret Songs
+Getty: Poor Peter
+Heggie: 3 Songs
+Garner: Annettes Lieder
+Corigliano: 2 Cabaret Songs
+Woolf: Odas de Todo el Mundo
- Sound Format:
- stereo & multichannel (Hybrid)
- Artists:
- Lisa Delan, Susanne Mentzer, Matt Haimovitz, Kristin Pankonin
- Label:
- Pentatone
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2008
- Item number:
- 6326879
- UPC/EAN:
- 0827949009969
- Release date:
- 1.1.2013
Product Information
Both the composers and the performers on this release from the Dutch audiophile label PentaTone are mostly associated with the city of San Francisco, but the program is nevertheless diverse enough to live up to the more general "Songs by American Composers" subtitle. The title comes from Gordon Getty's "The Ballad of Poor Peter" (track 7), one of several compositions on the program that take their inspiration from folk music. Getty's set "Poor Peter," to his own texts, draws on English folk song, while Jake Heggie's lush "Four Songs" include reworkings of three American folk melodies. The Heggie and the opening selections from the rather preciously naughty "Cabaret Songs" of William Bolcom are the only non-premieres here. Even though she is presenting music by the most varied compositional voices, soprano Lisa Delan holds the program together with a personality that's strong enough to make you forget the example of Bolcom and partner Joan Morris in the "Cabaret Songs" and also in John Corigliano's satirical "Dodecaphonia," which was also composed for them. Most of the songs are comic in one way or another, but they're balanced by the genuinely intense, neo-Romantic "Annettes Lieder" of David Garner, setting German-language poems by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and by the Spanish-language "Odas de todo el mundo" of Luna Pearl Wolf. The latter work is technically a stretch for Delan, but she's consistently fun to listen to. Superior Super Audio sound from California's Skywalker Studios is another attraction for a release that can be recommended to anyone looking for a one-disc survey of contemporary American art song. Booklet notes are in English, French, and German (the varying translations of the phrase "so-so sex" are instructive in themselves). The song texts are given in English only except where they are not in English; for those, an English translation is provided.
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Tracklisting
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (SACD)
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1 William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs / Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1 und 2 (1977-1985) / (A. Weinstein) für Singstimme und Klavier: Amor (It wasn't the
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2 William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs / Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1 und 2 (1977-1985) / (A. Weinstein) für Singstimme und Klavier: Oh close the curtai
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3 William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs / Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1 und 2 (1977-1985) / (A. Weinstein) für Singstimme und Klavier: Waitin
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4 William Bolcom: Cabaret Songs / Cabaret Songs, Vol. 1 und 2 (1977-1985) / (A. Weinstein) für Singstimme und Klavier: Toothbrush time (It
Poor Peter Nr. 1-3 (Getty) (Lieder)
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5 Gordon Getty: Nr. 1 Where Is My Lady
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6 Gordon Getty: Nr. 2 Tune The Fiddle
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7 Gordon Getty: Nr. 3 The Ballad Of Poor Peter
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8 Jake Heggie: My True Love Hath My Heart ((Sidney))
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9 Jake Heggie: Barb'ry Allen ((Trad.))
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10 Jake Heggie: He Is Gone Away
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11 Jake Heggie: The Leather-Winged Bat ((Trad.))
Annettes Lieder Nr. 1-3 (Droste-Hülshoff)
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12 David Garner (*1954): Nr. 1 Im Grase
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13 David Garner (*1954): Nr. 2 Am Turm
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14 David Garner (*1954): Nr. 3 Der Weiher
Cabaret Songs Nr. 1-2 (Adamo)
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15 John Corigliano: Nr. 1 Dodecaphonia
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16 John Corigliano: Nr. 2 Marvelous Invention
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17 Luna Pearl Woolf (*1973): Odas de Todo el Mundo (Neruda)
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