Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
Did the world need to hear Gershwin played by a viol consort, with an occasional recorder tootling along? If so, then why not Purcell accompanied by a jazz piano? The idea of combining the two composers in one performance is an attractive one, and the mix of vocal and instrumental pieces by each composer here is intelligently grouped. Arranger and leader Jay Bernfeld offers several parallels. Both composers were, in the broadest sense, urban sensations and musical-theater composers with bigger things on their minds; both managed to complete one towering opera before dying young. He might have added more items to his list: the ground basses of Purcell's time are elaborated by their melody lines in a manner akin to, if not precisely comparable to, the structure of Gershwin's songs. Israeli-born mezzo soprano Rinat Shaham gives this project her best, successfully pushing Gershwin just a bit in the direction of art song and Purcell just a bit in the direction of musical theater. There are points where she makes the whole thing worth hearing: her Embraceable You has a graceful allure, and she does as well as any non-native speaker of English could with such lines as "Don't be a naughty baby/Come to mama, come to mama, do." Yet in the end the viol consort, and Bernfeld's arrangements for it, straitjacket Gershwin's music. Sample the instrumental rendering of Sweet and Low Down (track 15); it feels forced, because Gershwin's rhythms aren't given room to breathe. They get the needed room in a few of Shaham's renditions, where she takes control, but the disc ultimately has the feel of an experiment in progress rather than of a fully realized joining of two repertoires.
© TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From 12,49€/month
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author, Original Text Author - Dubose Heyward, Author, Original Text Author - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Henry Purcell, Composer - John Dryden, Author, Original Text Author - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Henry Purcell, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author, Original Text Author - Howard Dietz, Arranger, Work Arranger - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Henry Purcell, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Unknown, Author, Original Text Author - Henry Purcell, Composer - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Henry Purcell, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author, Original Text Author - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Henry Purcell, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author, Original Text Author - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
William Croft, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Nahum Tate, Author, Original Text Author - Henry Purcell, Composer - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Author, Original Text Author - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Samuel K. Lauren, Author, Original Text Author - Ernest Pagano, Author, Original Text Author
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Henry Purcell, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author, Original Text Author - Dubose Heyward, Author, Original Text Author - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
George Gershwin, Composer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, Arranger, Work Arranger, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Nahum Tate, Author, Original Text Author - Henry Purcell, Composer - Rinat Shaham, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Fuoco e Cenere, Chamber Ensemble, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jay Bernfeld, Conductor, MainArtist - Johanne Goyette, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Albumbeschreibung
Did the world need to hear Gershwin played by a viol consort, with an occasional recorder tootling along? If so, then why not Purcell accompanied by a jazz piano? The idea of combining the two composers in one performance is an attractive one, and the mix of vocal and instrumental pieces by each composer here is intelligently grouped. Arranger and leader Jay Bernfeld offers several parallels. Both composers were, in the broadest sense, urban sensations and musical-theater composers with bigger things on their minds; both managed to complete one towering opera before dying young. He might have added more items to his list: the ground basses of Purcell's time are elaborated by their melody lines in a manner akin to, if not precisely comparable to, the structure of Gershwin's songs. Israeli-born mezzo soprano Rinat Shaham gives this project her best, successfully pushing Gershwin just a bit in the direction of art song and Purcell just a bit in the direction of musical theater. There are points where she makes the whole thing worth hearing: her Embraceable You has a graceful allure, and she does as well as any non-native speaker of English could with such lines as "Don't be a naughty baby/Come to mama, come to mama, do." Yet in the end the viol consort, and Bernfeld's arrangements for it, straitjacket Gershwin's music. Sample the instrumental rendering of Sweet and Low Down (track 15); it feels forced, because Gershwin's rhythms aren't given room to breathe. They get the needed room in a few of Shaham's renditions, where she takes control, but the disc ultimately has the feel of an experiment in progress rather than of a fully realized joining of two repertoires.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:07
- Main artists: Fuoco e Cenere Jay Bernfeld Rinat Shaham
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: ATMA Classique
- Genre: Klassiek
© 2001 ATMA Classique ℗ 2001 ATMA Classique
Improve album information
Why buy on Qobuz...
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.