The Grainger Edition, Volume 2 - Songs for Baritone (1996)
The Grainger Edition, Volume 2 - Songs for Baritone (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 64:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9503 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 258 Mb | Total time: 64:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 9503 | Recorded: 1996
Stephen Varcoe's nothing less than a marvel. His voice doesn't have either the size or the beauty of, say, Bryn Terfel's, but he sings Lieder. The intonation is dead-on true, the tone clear, the diction immaculate. He phrases sound as supple as a great pop singer, like Bennett, Sinatra, Tormé, or Astaire. He has no annoying vocal mannerisms to snatch attention from the music. He sings superbly even in dialect. Even more wonderful, he has solved the chief problem of a singer of songs: that of "naturalness." He communicates. He knows what the texts are about and can convey them to the listener. He's a singing story-teller. I'd love to hear a Winterreise from him, or a Fauré recital.
Penelope Thwaites has received great acclaim as a Grainger specialist and deserves every bit of it. She may be the best accompanist I've heard since Gerald Moore – a wide range of color, dramatically suitable to the text, and so at one with the singer – I suspect Vulcan mind-meld here – that you'd swear there was only a single performer – like a folk singer picking his own guitar. This entire enterprise rises beyond the level of song recital to real chamber music.–Steve Schwartz
Performer:
Stephen Varcoe, baritone
Penelope Thwaites, piano
Tracklist:
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
01. Willow, Willow
02. Six Dukes Went Afishin'
03. British Waterside
04. The Pretty Maid Milkin' Her Cow
05. The Lost Lady Found
06. Creepin' Jane
07. Bold William Taylor
08. Leezie Lindsay
09. Bonnie George Campbell
10. Drowned
11. Willie's Gane to Melville Castle
Six settings of Rudyard Kipling
12. Lukannon
13. Merciful Town
14. Ride with an Idle Whip
15. Northern Ballad
16. The Men of the Sea
17. Soldier, Soldier
18. Hard Hearted Barb'ra (H)Ellen
19. The Secret of the Sea
20. Sailor's Chanty
21. Shallow Brown
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The Grainger Edition, Volume 2 - Songs for Baritone (1996)
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