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Yes, at the opera, when the tenor and the soprano stubbornly want to make eyes at each other, there is always a baritone or a bass to sow some discord, sometimes in vain—Osmin, Pizzarro, Caspar—, sometimes successfully—the various Mephisto, Nick Shadow Lindorf-Dapertutto-Miracle. The American bass-baritone Kevin Short offers here, accompanied by an Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille in great shape, a compendium of very, very bad characters, roles he has already sung more or less on the whole lyrical scene. Reckon that he has already performed at the MET in New York, at the operas in Chicago, Houston Los Angeles and Washington, at the Opéra Comique in Paris, in Cologne, Stuttgart, Bologna; in the festivals in Santa Fe, Bregenz, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence. Not forgetting, obviously, his intense participation in the concertante field with the orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Cleveland, the one from the RAI, from Radio France and so many others of that kind. Purists (who are absolutely right), fear not: Kevin Short perfectly masters the French pronunciation, as well as the German one and the Italian one. As a “bonus”, he offers a tune from his compatriot Gordon Getty, Mephistopheles to Faust. For your information, Getty indeed bears the name of the famous petroleum dynasty, but Gordon much prefers to compose music—some excellent pieces, incidentally. © SM/Qobuz
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Faust, CG 4 (Excerpts) (Charles Gounod)
Charles Gounod, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Charles Gounod, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Mefistofele (excerpts) (Arrigo Boito)
Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Arrigo Boito, Composer - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Arrigo Boito, Composer - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
6 Songs, Op. 75 (Dimitri Chostakovitch)
Dmitri Shostakovich, Composer - Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Fidelio, Op. 72 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra - Opéra de Marseille Chorus, Choir
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (Excerpts) (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Der Freischutz, J. 277 (Carl Maria von Weber)
Carl Maria Von Weber, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Les contes d'Hoffmann (Excerpts) (Jacques Offenbach)
Jacques Offenbach, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Jacques Offenbach, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H. 111 (Excerpts) (Hector Berlioz)
Hector Berlioz, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Hector Berlioz, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Mephistopheles to Faust (version for voice and orchestra) (Gordon Getty)
Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Gordon Getty, Composer - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Pesnya Mefistofelya v pogrebke Auerbakha (Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar), "Song of the Flea" (arr. I. Stravinsky for voice and orchestra) (Modeste Moussorgski)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Modest Mussorgsky, Composer - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Robert le Diable (Giacomo Meyerbeer)
Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Das Rheingold, WWV 86A (Richard Wagner)
Richard Wagner, Composer - Lawrence Foster, Conductor - Kevin Short, Artist, MainArtist - Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
Album review
Yes, at the opera, when the tenor and the soprano stubbornly want to make eyes at each other, there is always a baritone or a bass to sow some discord, sometimes in vain—Osmin, Pizzarro, Caspar—, sometimes successfully—the various Mephisto, Nick Shadow Lindorf-Dapertutto-Miracle. The American bass-baritone Kevin Short offers here, accompanied by an Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille in great shape, a compendium of very, very bad characters, roles he has already sung more or less on the whole lyrical scene. Reckon that he has already performed at the MET in New York, at the operas in Chicago, Houston Los Angeles and Washington, at the Opéra Comique in Paris, in Cologne, Stuttgart, Bologna; in the festivals in Santa Fe, Bregenz, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence. Not forgetting, obviously, his intense participation in the concertante field with the orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Cleveland, the one from the RAI, from Radio France and so many others of that kind. Purists (who are absolutely right), fear not: Kevin Short perfectly masters the French pronunciation, as well as the German one and the Italian one. As a “bonus”, he offers a tune from his compatriot Gordon Getty, Mephistopheles to Faust. For your information, Getty indeed bears the name of the famous petroleum dynasty, but Gordon much prefers to compose music—some excellent pieces, incidentally. © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:01
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Kevin Short Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra Opéra de Marseille Chorus Lawrence Foster
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: PentaTone
- Genre: Classical Opera
(C) 2018 PENTATONE (P) 2018 PENTATONE
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