Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys
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Artist: Bryn TerfelComposer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Orchestra: Swedish Radio Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2010-04-13
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Mefistofele (Mefistofele): Sono lo spirito che nega
- Scarpia (Tosca): Tre sbirri, una carrozza
- Dulcamara (L'elisir d'amore): Udite, udite, o rustici
- Iago (Otello: Vanne): ...Credo in un Dio crudel
- Kaspar (Der Freischütz): Schweig, damit dich niemand warnt!
- Sportin' Life (Porgy and Bess): It ain't necessarily so
- Mackie Messer (Die Dreigroschenoper): Die Moritat von Mackie Messer
- Roderic (Ruddigore): When the night wind howls
- Sweeney Todd
- Javert (Les Misérables Stars): There, out in the darkness
- Barnaba (La gioconda): O monumento!
- Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia): La calunnia è un venticello
- Pizarro (Fidelio): Ha! Welch ein Augenblick
- Méphistophélès (Faust): Le veau d'or est toujours debout
- Don Giovanni * Il Commendatore * Leporello (Don Giovanni): Don Giovanni, a cenar teco m'invitasti
Music reviews of Bad Boys
Music Review: Terfel is no villain, but his singing is charismatic anyway
Rating: 5 Stars
Bryn Terfel attempts a scowl on the cover photo, but he instantly reveals that he's no villain, much less a Satan. that's why the famous bass-baritone, though a splendid vocal actor, has been more a Leporello than a Don Giovanni, a Falstaff instead of an Iago. Terfel's expansive personality refuses to constrict into the obsessiveness of evil. Yet that's no reason to disbelieve in his new CD devoted to opera's "bad boys" (should we dumb things down quite that far?) DG has supplied their star with an excellent conductor in Paul Daniel and the accomplished Swedish Radio Orch., along with cannons for Scarpia's first-act monologue with chorus, and even Anne Sofie von Otter to take a turn as Mrs. Lovett from Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.
We must be living in an age of "I don't really mean it" villains, because Rene Pape's recent solo album for DG fell short on evil,too. Terfel is far ore the crossover artist, so here he's sprinkled in pop times form Porgy and Bess , Ruddigore, the Threpenny Opera, and the aforementioned Sweeney Todd. the mixture is lively and often amusing. Terfel's voice shows little if any sing of wear --- the spark of charisma certainly hasn't gone out. In the Fifties Boris Christoff pulled off the trick of singing the three major bass roles in Boris Godunov, and Terfel takes a stab at giving us all three low voices in the banquet scene from Don Giovanni. His Commendatore isn't threatening, though, and his Don isn't arrogantly defiant. only poor Leporello, the one comic character, sounds absolutely right.
That said, this is a deluxe solo album full of appeal, and what's wrong with smiling instead of trembling in fear?
Here's the complete program:
Beethoven:
Ha! Welch ein Augenblick! (from Fidelio)
Boito:
Son lo Spirito che nega [from Mefistofele]
Donizetti:
Udite, udite, o rustici (from L'elisir d'amore)
Gershwin:
It Ain't Necessarily So (from Porgy and Bess)
Gounod:
Le veau d'or est toujours debout (from Faust)
Mozart:
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco (from Don Giovanni)
Ponchielli:
Maledici? O monumento (from La Gioconda)
Puccini:
Tre sbirri...Una carozza...Presto 'Te Deum' (from Tosca)
Rossini:
La calumnia e un venticello (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Schönberg:
Stars (from Les Misérables)
Sondheim:
Epiphany (from Sweeney Todd)
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mrs Lovett)
Sullivan:
When the Night Wind Howls (from Ruddigore)
Verdi:
Vanne, la tua meta gia vedo...Credo in un Dio crudel (from Otello)
Weber:
Schweig, schweig (from Der Freischütz)
Weill:
The Threepenny Opera: Moritat von Mackie Messer
Description of Bad Boys
Bad Boys is a line up of some of the most unscrupulous, cynical, devious, roguish musical villains of the opera stage. Bryn Terfel calls them the "demonic misfits and malcontents of this wonderful music." Internationally acclaimed star Bryn Terfel, a gentle man in real life, recruits a gang of "bad boy" characters from opera and musicals to electrify us with tunes from the sinister side of the bass clef. Thoroughly convincing as villains you would not want to meet alone in the dark, Bryn Terfel wields a full, wide ranging bass-baritone ever in service to dramatic instincts rare in any era. No singer morphs from Don Giovanni to "Mack the Knife" to Sweeney Todd with Terfel's devilish ease--Bad Boys is a delightful box of mixed musical bonbons. Grammophone writes: "[Terfel's] powerful vocal presence is born of physical presence and he harnesses words, in any language, like few others." Bryn will be performing one of the bad boys, Scarpia from Tosca at The Metropolitan Opera from April 14-24th.Classic Rock CDs
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