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Mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was known primarily as a champion of new music, a singer who could be counted on to bring the highest expertise and commitment to untested new repertoire that might have been considered unsingable: cutting-edge scores by composers like Crumb, Boulez, Carter, Druckman, and Birtwistle. In the public imagination, she was so closely tied to new music that it was easy to forget that her repertoire was broadly inclusive, ranging from Medieval and Renaissance songs through Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms, Mahler, and Ravel, as well as scores on which the ink was barely dry. In this two-disc set she focuses on more traditional repertoire, songs by Haydn, Beethoven, Debussy, Strauss, Poulenc, and Gershwin, plus modern works by Crumb, Kenneth Frazelle, and Stanley Walden. Her singing in traditional repertoire is no less striking and distinctive than in the contemporary. She brought an impeccable, intelligent, intuitive musicianship to everything she approached, and sang with absolute security in pitch, which is especially impressive in some of the frighteningly jagged atonal scores, because she didn't have perfect pitch. Her voice, though not large, had a naturally burnished tone, and she was especially gifted in coloring it to bring the greatest expressive depth to the music. The two-hour album comes from a 1987 concert, an astonishing testimony to her professionalism in delivering such a large and sometimes fearsomely demanding recital -- there is no "easy" filler in the program -- in a single evening and sustaining her high standards from beginning to end. The refinement of her singing is evident throughout, but nowhere more than in the four Beethoven songs that open the album. Her ability to effortlessly float a phrase with a warmly caressing tenderness is one of her most notable gifts, evident especially in Poulenc's C'est ainsi que tu es and Strauss' Morgen. Kenneth Frazelle's song cycle, Worldly Hopes, the most rigorously modernist (but still vocally lyrical) work, showcases DeGaetani's remarkable lower register. Her playfulness is evident in Gershwin's "Our Love Is Here to Stay" and Poulenc's "Les gars qui vont à la Fête," and Walden's profoundly touching cycle Three Ladies takes the singer through a gamut of emotions, from whimsy to wrenchingly vivid despair. Pianist Gilbert Kalish is every bit DeGaetani's musical partner and equal, and they make a formidably commanding team. Another artist with both a commitment to new work and the virtuosity to master the most demanding conventional repertoire, Kalish plays with polish, dazzle, and élan. The sound is good for a live recording with only occasional audience noises. This release is a windfall not only for fans of contemporary vocal music but for anyone who treasures intelligent bel canto singing of the highest order.
© TiVo
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3 Songs, Op. 83 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel, WoO 150 (Live) (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Heinrich Goeble, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Chansons villageoises, FP 117a (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Maurice Fombeure, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
À sa guitare, FP 79a (Version for Voice & Piano) [Live] (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Pierre de Ronsard, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Metamorphoses, FP 121 (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Louise de Vilmorin, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Main dominée par le cœur, FP 135 (Live) (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
5 poèmes de Paul Éluard, FP 77 (Francis Poulenc)
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Paul Eluard, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Worldly Hopes (Kenneth Frazelle)
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Kenneth Frazelle, Composer - Archie Randolph Ammons, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Kenneth Frazelle, Composer - Archie Randolph Ammons, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Kenneth Frazelle, Composer - Archie Randolph Ammons, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Kenneth Frazelle, Composer - Archie Randolph Ammons, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Kenneth Frazelle, Composer - Archie Randolph Ammons, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
3 Early Songs (George Crumb)
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - GEORGE CRUMB, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Sara Teasdale, Lyricist - Robert Southey, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - GEORGE CRUMB, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Sara Teasdale, Lyricist, MainArtist - Robert Southey, Lyricist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jan DeGaetani, Artist - GEORGE CRUMB, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Sara Teasdale, Lyricist - Robert Southey, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
The Sleeper (Live) (George Crumb)
Edgar Allan Poe, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - GEORGE CRUMB, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Fêtes galantes, Book 2, L. 104 (Claude Debussy)
Claude Debussy, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Paul-Marie Verlaine, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Claude Debussy, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Paul-Marie Verlaine, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Claude Debussy, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Paul-Marie Verlaine, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
DISC 2
8 Gedichte aus "Letzte Blätter", Op. 10, TrV 141 (Richard Strauss)
Richard Strauss, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Hermann Von Gilm, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
5 Lieder, Op. 32, TrV 174 (Richard Strauss)
Richard Strauss, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Karl Friedrich Henckell, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170 (Version for Voice & Piano) [Excerpts] (Richard Strauss)
Richard Strauss, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Karl Friedrich Henckell, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Schlichte Weisen, Op. 21, TrV 160 (Richard Strauss)
Richard Strauss, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist - Felix Dahn, Lyricist, MainArtist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170 (Version for Voice & Piano) [Excerpts] (Richard Strauss)
Richard Strauss, Composer - John Henry MacKay, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Love Is Here to Stay (Live) (George Gershwin)
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
3 Ladies (Stanley Walden)
Jacques Levy, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Stanley Walden, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jacques Levy, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Stanley Walden, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Jacques Levy, Lyricist, MainArtist - Jan DeGaetani, Artist - Stanley Walden, Composer - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Arianna a Naxos, Hob. XXVIb:2 (Live) (Joseph Haydn)
Franz Joseph Haydn, Composer - Jan DeGaetani, Artist, MainArtist - Gilbert Kalish, Artist
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
Album review
Mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was known primarily as a champion of new music, a singer who could be counted on to bring the highest expertise and commitment to untested new repertoire that might have been considered unsingable: cutting-edge scores by composers like Crumb, Boulez, Carter, Druckman, and Birtwistle. In the public imagination, she was so closely tied to new music that it was easy to forget that her repertoire was broadly inclusive, ranging from Medieval and Renaissance songs through Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms, Mahler, and Ravel, as well as scores on which the ink was barely dry. In this two-disc set she focuses on more traditional repertoire, songs by Haydn, Beethoven, Debussy, Strauss, Poulenc, and Gershwin, plus modern works by Crumb, Kenneth Frazelle, and Stanley Walden. Her singing in traditional repertoire is no less striking and distinctive than in the contemporary. She brought an impeccable, intelligent, intuitive musicianship to everything she approached, and sang with absolute security in pitch, which is especially impressive in some of the frighteningly jagged atonal scores, because she didn't have perfect pitch. Her voice, though not large, had a naturally burnished tone, and she was especially gifted in coloring it to bring the greatest expressive depth to the music. The two-hour album comes from a 1987 concert, an astonishing testimony to her professionalism in delivering such a large and sometimes fearsomely demanding recital -- there is no "easy" filler in the program -- in a single evening and sustaining her high standards from beginning to end. The refinement of her singing is evident throughout, but nowhere more than in the four Beethoven songs that open the album. Her ability to effortlessly float a phrase with a warmly caressing tenderness is one of her most notable gifts, evident especially in Poulenc's C'est ainsi que tu es and Strauss' Morgen. Kenneth Frazelle's song cycle, Worldly Hopes, the most rigorously modernist (but still vocally lyrical) work, showcases DeGaetani's remarkable lower register. Her playfulness is evident in Gershwin's "Our Love Is Here to Stay" and Poulenc's "Les gars qui vont à la Fête," and Walden's profoundly touching cycle Three Ladies takes the singer through a gamut of emotions, from whimsy to wrenchingly vivid despair. Pianist Gilbert Kalish is every bit DeGaetani's musical partner and equal, and they make a formidably commanding team. Another artist with both a commitment to new work and the virtuosity to master the most demanding conventional repertoire, Kalish plays with polish, dazzle, and élan. The sound is good for a live recording with only occasional audience noises. This release is a windfall not only for fans of contemporary vocal music but for anyone who treasures intelligent bel canto singing of the highest order.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 31 track(s)
- Total length: 01:57:03
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Jan DeGaetani
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Bridge Records
- Genre: Classical
(C) 2011 Bridge Records (P) 2011 Bridge Records
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