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The young American soprano Nadine Sierra, winner of top prizes like the Beverly Sills Artists Award, has won wide attention for her singing in bel canto roles. For her debut album, however, she has chosen not Italian repertory but accessible contemporary material, most of it in English. It might seem an odd fit with her stated goal: "Opera belongs to everybody, no matter what age, no matter what race, no matter what kind of money you make or don't make. It will speak to you because it is a reflection of humanity." Much of the material on the album is not opera at all, but musical theater or orchestral songs. However, it emerges that there's a method behind Sierra's selections: almost without exception (the exception is No Word from Tom, from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, which is placed at the end, seems to come out of nowhere, and just sounds bizarre), the music fits Sierra's voice. She's got a big, distinctive sound, with a muscular high end in which vibrato ripples powerfully and quickly. Once you hear it, you don't forget it, and this is the source of the excitement surrounding this young singer. Sample one of the pieces by Villa-Lobos, which almost seem tailor-made for Sierra. Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's straightforward poetry settings also favor Sierra's voice. What she doesn't have at the moment is a great deal of range: Bernstein's calculatedly sentimental Take Care of This House and jocular Glitter and Be Gay come out sounding rather similar, and the farther she gets from her high sweet spot the less confident she sounds. It's certainly enough to whet the appetite for the voice's future development, however. Sierra is ably backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Robert Spano, who deserve more than the very small print they get in Deutsche Grammophon's album graphics.
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West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein)
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Author - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Bachianas brasileiras No. 5, W. 389 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Uribe Margarita Ruth Correa, Author - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Langston Hughes, Author - Ricky Ian Gordon, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Songfest (Leonard Bernstein)
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Julia de Burgos, Author - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Floresta do Amazonas, W551 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Dora Vasconcellos, Author - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alan Jay Lerner, Author - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Candide / Act I (Leonard Bernstein)
Dorothy Parker, Author - John Mauceri, Arranger, Orchestrator - John La Touche, Author - Leonard Bernstein, Composer, Author, Arranger, Orchestrator - Stephen Sondheim, Author - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - John Wells, Author - Richard Wilbur, Author - Hershy Kay, Arranger, Orchestrator - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Voltaire, Author - Hugh Wheeler, Author - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lillian Hellman, Author - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ricky Ian Gordon, Composer - Emily Dickinson, Author - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Floresta do Amazonas, W551 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Dora Vasconcellos, Author - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
The Cows of Apollo (Christopher Theofanidis)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Christopher Theofanidis, Composer - William M. Hoffman, Author - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephen Foster, ComposerLyricist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Rosalia De Castro, Author - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Osvaldo Golijov, Composer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
The Rake's Progress / Act 1 / Scene 3 (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Chris Parker, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Sid McLauchlan, Producer - Robert Spano, Conductor, MainArtist - Wystan Hugh Auden, Author - Chester Kallman, Author - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Philip Krause, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nadine Sierra, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
The young American soprano Nadine Sierra, winner of top prizes like the Beverly Sills Artists Award, has won wide attention for her singing in bel canto roles. For her debut album, however, she has chosen not Italian repertory but accessible contemporary material, most of it in English. It might seem an odd fit with her stated goal: "Opera belongs to everybody, no matter what age, no matter what race, no matter what kind of money you make or don't make. It will speak to you because it is a reflection of humanity." Much of the material on the album is not opera at all, but musical theater or orchestral songs. However, it emerges that there's a method behind Sierra's selections: almost without exception (the exception is No Word from Tom, from Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, which is placed at the end, seems to come out of nowhere, and just sounds bizarre), the music fits Sierra's voice. She's got a big, distinctive sound, with a muscular high end in which vibrato ripples powerfully and quickly. Once you hear it, you don't forget it, and this is the source of the excitement surrounding this young singer. Sample one of the pieces by Villa-Lobos, which almost seem tailor-made for Sierra. Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's straightforward poetry settings also favor Sierra's voice. What she doesn't have at the moment is a great deal of range: Bernstein's calculatedly sentimental Take Care of This House and jocular Glitter and Be Gay come out sounding rather similar, and the farther she gets from her high sweet spot the less confident she sounds. It's certainly enough to whet the appetite for the voice's future development, however. Sierra is ably backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Robert Spano, who deserve more than the very small print they get in Deutsche Grammophon's album graphics.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:38
- Main artists: Nadine Sierra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Robert Spano
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
© 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2018 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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