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Crossover fans have been primed and ready for this disc. With a silky-voiced and charismatic young opera star in mezzo Denyce Graves, sultry Latin American material whose composers never worried too much about what was classical and what was popular, and first-rate jazz-sized backing groups that put the singer front and center while adding subtleties of their own, The Lost Days sounded like the album that was going to blow open a smoldering place for operatic singing on adult alternative radio.
Alas, it doesn't happen. Graves looks great lounging on a divan with bra straps and more hanging out, and her many concert-going fans may be quite happy with The Lost Days as a memento of the Graves aura. She delivers flawless tone and elegant phrasing on Astor Piazzolla's vocalise Milonga sin palabras. Accompanied by Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdés on Romanza de Denyce, one of several new songs composed for this project, Graves gets into the sentimental yet artful essence of old-style Cuban pop. But that's about the best of it -- Graves barely adjusts her vocal vocabulary to match the words she's singing or the style she's singing in. She displays her low register on pianist Eliane Elias' Haabiá-Tupi, but on a sensual piece of seduction dreaming that requires a bit of a growl of its own, Piazzolla's Yo soy María, Graves doesn't go for the gusto. When she sings "If the bandoneón excites me, I bite it hard on the mouth," it's not believable -- Graves doesn't step out of her ultra-smooth sound far enough to convince anyone that she means what she's singing. So it goes with Villa-Lobos and Carlos Guastavino and José María Vitier: with a lot of music whose rhythmic excitement ought to generate more magnetism than Graves delivers here.
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Pablo Aslan, Bass - Susan Palma, Flute - Pablo Ziegler, Arranger - Pablo Ziegler, Piano - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Horacio Ferrer, Lyricist - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Hector del Curto, Performer - Astor Piazzolla, Composer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Memo Acevedo, Percussion - Leo Grinhauz, Acoustic Cello - John Amira, Percussion - José María Vitíer, Composer - José María Vitíer, Piano - Jay Elfenbein, Bass - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Marcos Granados, Flute - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Silvia Rodríguez Rivero, Lyricist
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Pablo Aslan, Bass - Susan Palma, Flute - Pablo Ziegler, Arranger - Pablo Ziegler, Piano - Mario Trejo, Lyricist - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Hector del Curto, Performer - Astor Piazzolla, Composer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Marc Johnson, Bass - Eliane Elias, Piano - Eliane Elias, Lyricist - Eliane Elias, Composer - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Satoshi Takeishi, Drums - Ettore Stratta, Producer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
José Pedroni, Lyricist - Leo Grinhauz, Acoustic Cello - Nick Danielson, Violin - Pablo Ziegler, Arranger - Pablo Ziegler, Piano - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Carlos Guastavino, Composer - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Paquito D'Rivera, Clarinet
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Memo Acevedo, Percussion - Leo Grinhauz, Acoustic Cello - John Amira, Percussion - Pablo Aslan, Bass - José María Vitíer, Composer - José María Vitíer, Piano - Jay Elfenbein, Bass - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Marcos Granados, Flute - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Silvia Rodríguez Rivero, Lyricist
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Alfredo Ferreira, Lyricist - Marc Johnson, Bass - Eliane Elias, Piano - Eliane Elias, Arranger - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Satoshi Takeishi, Drums - Ettore Stratta, Producer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Ana María Chouhy Aguirre, Lyricist - Leo Grinhauz, Acoustic Cello - Pablo Aslan, Bass - Susan Palma, Flute - Pablo Ziegler, Arranger - Pablo Ziegler, Piano - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Carlos Guastavino, Composer - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Chucho Valdés, Composer - Chucho Valdés, Lyricist - Chucho Valdés, Piano
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Marc Johnson, Bass - Eliane Elias, Piano - Eliane Elias, Arranger - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Satoshi Takeishi, Drums - Traditional, Lyricist - Ettore Stratta, Producer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
José Pedroni, Lyricist - Leo Grinhauz, Acoustic Cello - Nick Danielson, Violin - Pablo Aslan, Bass - Pablo Ziegler, Arranger - Pablo Ziegler, Piano - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Carlos Guastavino, Composer - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Paquito D'Rivera, Clarinet
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Pablo Aslan, Bass - Susan Palma, Flute - Pablo Ziegler, Arranger - Pablo Ziegler, Piano - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Unknown, Lyricist - Hector del Curto, Performer - Astor Piazzolla, Composer
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Chucho Valdés, Composer - Chucho Valdés, Lyricist - Chucho Valdés, Piano
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Memo Acevedo, Percussion - Leo Grinhauz, Acoustic Cello - John Amira, Percussion - Pablo Aslan, Bass - José María Vitíer, Composer - José María Vitíer, Piano - Jay Elfenbein, Bass - Denyce Graves, Mezzo-Soprano - Ettore Stratta, Producer - Josiah Gluck, Recording Engineer - Josiah Gluck, Mixing Engineer - Silvia Rodríguez Rivero, Lyricist
(P) 2002 BMG Music
Albumbeschreibung
Crossover fans have been primed and ready for this disc. With a silky-voiced and charismatic young opera star in mezzo Denyce Graves, sultry Latin American material whose composers never worried too much about what was classical and what was popular, and first-rate jazz-sized backing groups that put the singer front and center while adding subtleties of their own, The Lost Days sounded like the album that was going to blow open a smoldering place for operatic singing on adult alternative radio.
Alas, it doesn't happen. Graves looks great lounging on a divan with bra straps and more hanging out, and her many concert-going fans may be quite happy with The Lost Days as a memento of the Graves aura. She delivers flawless tone and elegant phrasing on Astor Piazzolla's vocalise Milonga sin palabras. Accompanied by Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdés on Romanza de Denyce, one of several new songs composed for this project, Graves gets into the sentimental yet artful essence of old-style Cuban pop. But that's about the best of it -- Graves barely adjusts her vocal vocabulary to match the words she's singing or the style she's singing in. She displays her low register on pianist Eliane Elias' Haabiá-Tupi, but on a sensual piece of seduction dreaming that requires a bit of a growl of its own, Piazzolla's Yo soy María, Graves doesn't go for the gusto. When she sings "If the bandoneón excites me, I bite it hard on the mouth," it's not believable -- Graves doesn't step out of her ultra-smooth sound far enough to convince anyone that she means what she's singing. So it goes with Villa-Lobos and Carlos Guastavino and José María Vitier: with a lot of music whose rhythmic excitement ought to generate more magnetism than Graves delivers here.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:49
- Main artists: Denyce Graves
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: RCA Red Seal
- Genre: Klassiek
(P) 2002 BMG
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