Re: Knoxville Summer of 1915
Jay Kauffman
> On Apr 6, 6:01 pm, "REG" <Richer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any non-American artist who's sung or recorded this?
>
> > I sometimes think Barber is 'our' R V-W, but maybe his (Barber's)
> > achievement was more limited to pieces with smaller forces because sometimes
> > to me the actual content doesn't really survive being spread over larger
> > canvanses, but Knoxville works for me, certainly with large thanks to Mr.
> > Agee, but I'm not sure what life, if any, it's had outside of this country.
>
> Although not Knoxville, I have located a few selections of Cheryl
> Studer singing Samuel Barber in recital in Belgium (in English).
> Lovely and heartfelt.
> Here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cheryl+studer+samuel+barb...
REG, thanks so much for alerting us to these Samuel Barber
selections. I have never heard these songs sung better. Studer is
simply heartrending in them. So excited about the discovery that I am
reposting the link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cheryl+studer+samuel+barber+scalatti&search_type=
Ray Johnstone
There is a great recording with an Australian soloist. Will get you
the info tomorrow.
r...@iinet.com.au
www.iinet.com.au/~ray
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)
Jay Kauffman wrote:
> On Apr 7, 7:23 am, REG <fromlovewith...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 6:01 pm, "REG" <Richer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know of any non-American artist who's sung or recorded this?
>>> I sometimes think Barber is 'our' R V-W, but maybe his (Barber's)
>>> achievement was more limited to pieces with smaller forces because sometimes
>>> to me the actual content doesn't really survive being spread over larger
>>> canvanses, but Knoxville works for me, certainly with large thanks to Mr.
>>> Agee, but I'm not sure what life, if any, it's had outside of this country.
>> Although not Knoxville, I have located a few selections of Cheryl
>> Studer singing Samuel Barber in recital in Belgium (in English).
>> Lovely and heartfelt.
Her name may be anathema to some of the posters here, but when did
Cheryl Studer become a "non-American artist"?
boombox
Jay Kauffman wrote:
> On Apr 7, 7:23�am, REG <fromlovewith...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 6, 6:01�pm, "REG" <Richer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know of any non-American artist who's sung or recorded this?
> >
Offhand, I can only think of Jill Gomez, a Brit, who did a version
with Richard Hickox, and Karina Gauvin, a Canadian who recently
recorded one with Marin Alsop.
boombox
Two more, Measha Brueggergosman, Canadian and Molly McGurk, Aussie.
Jon Alan Conrad
liberty of pointing out a fine Barber song recital by Canadian
baritone Gerald Finley on Hyperion (including "Dover Beach").
If they should ever decide to make a companion CD with soprano in
other Barber songs and vocal works, I can imagine Felicity Lott
floating through "Knoxville"'s lines to delicious effect, nearly 40
years into her career. I wonder if she's ever performed it. (She did
include a couple of Barber songs on her "Summertime" CD.)
JAC
La Donna Mobile
> It doesn't respond to the original question, but may I take the
> liberty of pointing out a fine Barber song recital by Canadian
> baritone Gerald Finley on Hyperion (including "Dover Beach").
Finley's account is nowhere close, on so many levels, to the classic
set for DGG by Studer, Hampson, Browning and the Emerson. I repeat,
nowhere close.
> If they should ever decide to make a companion CD with soprano in
> other Barber songs and vocal works, I can imagine Felicity Lott
> floating through "Knoxville"'s lines to delicious effect, nearly 40
> years into her career.
Yes, if you want grandma's interpretation.
Matthew B. Tepper
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> Jay Kauffman wrote:
>> On Apr 7, 7:23 am, REG <fromlovewith...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Apr 6, 6:01 pm, "REG" <Richer...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of any non-American artist who's sung or recorded
>>>> this? I sometimes think Barber is 'our' R V-W, but maybe his
>>>> (Barber's) achievement was more limited to pieces with smaller forces
>>>> because sometimes to me the actual content doesn't really survive
>>>> being spread over larger canvanses, but Knoxville works for me,
>>>> certainly with large thanks to Mr. Agee, but I'm not sure what life,
>>>> if any, it's had outside of this country.
>>>
>>> Although not Knoxville, I have located a few selections of [redacted]
>>> singing Samuel Barber in recital in Belgium (in English).
>>> Lovely and heartfelt.
>
> Her name may be anathema to some of the posters here, but when did
> [redacted] become a "non-American artist"?
When she had that fiasco in Spain a few years ago, and was thus revealed
forevermore to be an unreliable and inadequate artist.
(Naturally, I don't mean this, but this is EXACTLY the sort of stuff that
Pinheid used against any artist who dared to challenge his beloved diva for
superiority in the opera world.)
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La Donna Mobile
StuderTroll wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2:42 pm, Jon Alan Conrad <con...@udel.edu> wrote:
>> It doesn't respond to the original question, but may I take the
>> liberty of pointing out a fine Barber song recital by Canadian
>> baritone Gerald Finley on Hyperion (including "Dover Beach").
>
> Finley's account is nowhere close, on so many levels, to the classic
> set for DGG by Studer, Hampson, Browning and the Emerson. I repeat,
> nowhere close.
>
Ha ha ha ha, the idea that I could ever rank Thomas Hampson above Gerald
Finley is so ludicrous as to be incredible