Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Azulão

Isabel Bayrakdarian, James Parker - Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Azulão

Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Azulão
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Artist: Isabel Bayrakdarian, James Parker
Brand: BAYRAKDARIAN,ISABEL
Composer: Manuel de Falla
Composer: Enrique Granados
Composer: Xavier Montsalvatge
Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Composer: Jaime Ovalle
Composer: Fernando J. Obradors
Composer: Carlos Guastavino
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Music Label: Musica Viva
Soundtracks:
  1. Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, songs (10) for voice & piano, H. 136: El major discreto
  2. Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, songs (10) for voice & piano, H. 136: El major tímido
  3. Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, songs (10) for voice & piano, H. 136: El tra la la y el punteado
  4. Tonadillas al estilo antiguo, songs (10) for voice & piano, H. 136: La maja de Goya
  5. Goyescas, opera, H. 65: Aria: La Maja ye el Ruise�±or
  6. Song of the Birds (El Cant dels Ocells), folk song
  7. La Rosa y el sauce, for voice & piano
  8. Madrigales (4) amatorios, for voice & piano (or soprano & orchestra): Con qu�© la lavar�©?
  9. Madrigales (4) amatorios, for voice & piano (or soprano & orchestra): Vos me mat�¡steis
  10. Madrigales (4) amatorios, for voice & piano (or soprano & orchestra): De d�³nde venis, amore?
  11. Madrigales (4) amatorios, for voice & piano (or soprano & orchestra): De los �¡lamos vengo, madre
  12. Canciones cl�¡sicas espa�±olas, for voice & piano in 4 books: El Vito
  13. Canciones clásicas españolas, for voice & piano in 4 books: Al Amor
  14. Canciones clásicas españolas, for voice & piano in 4 books: Corazón, porqué pasáis?
  15. Canciones clásicas españolas, for voice & piano in 4 books: La mi sola, Laureola
  16. Canciones clásicas españolas, for voice & piano in 4 books: Del cabello más sutil
  17. Canciones clásicas españolas, for voice & piano in 4 books: Chiquitita la novia
  18. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): El pano moruno
  19. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Asturiana
  20. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Canci�³n
  21. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Nana
  22. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Jota
  23. Suite Populaire Espagnole, for violin & piano (arr. from 'Popular Spanish Songs' by Kochanski): Polo
  24. Canciones negras (5) for voice & piano (or orchestra): Lullaby
  25. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for voice & 8 cellos, A. 389: Aria: Cantilena
  26. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for voice & 8 cellos, A. 389: Dance: Martel
  27. Azulao, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

Music reviews of Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Azulão

Music Review: Fascinating Program Beautifully Performed
Rating: 5 Stars

There's been a lot of buzz lately about a young soprano just emerging up in Canada, a striking-looking young woman still in her twenties, winner of the Met Auditions, who has a burgeoning career in opera and recital. Her name is Isabel Bayrakdarian, member of an Armenian family who immigrated to Canada in 1989. She apparently had a nice untrained voice but didn't begin training professionally until 1993; meanwhile she had gotten a degree in biomedical engineering. But only four years later she won the Met Auditions and a couple of years later recorded a CD of seemingly esoteric Armenian songs that became a runaway best-seller in Canada. She made her Metropolitan début in 2002 in the role of Catherine in William Bolcom's 'A View from the Bridge.' This CD is a recording of a program that had been presented on CBC Radio and featuring pianist James Parker, himself a virtuoso with a solo career, and ten Toronto cellists led by cello soloist and Canadian Symphony principal, Bryan Epperson. And all of it in music by Hispanic composers.

First, the program is well-constructed, alternating vocal/piano music with vocal/cello ensemble music, with cello ensemble music. Timbres are changed often enough that one's ear does not tire. Second, every bit of the program is superbly performed. Pride of place must be given to Miss Bayrakdarian, whose voice is crystalline and yet imbued with a womanly sensuality that well serves the alternately sultry and kittenish Spanish music present here. She sings Granados's delicious 'Four Tonadillas' with the kind of charm that I thought only a native Spaniard could bring to it. She negotiates the agréments and their subtle alterations of intonation so typical of Spanish singing with complete mastery. Late in the program she performs, with the cello ensemble, the ever-popular Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 as well as I've ever heard it. She also inhabits the sung version of Granados's 'La Maja y el Ruiseñor' ('The Maiden and the Nightingale') arranged for the opera he made from his piano suite 'Goyescas.'

The cello group plays Pablo Casals's arrangement of the Catalan Christmas carol, 'El Cant dels Ocells' ('The Song of the Birds'). And they lend a hand in Joaquin Rodrigo's 'Cuatro madrigales amatorios' ('Four Love Madrigals'), with cello ensemble accompaniment arranged (as in others here recorded) by Peter Tiefenbach. I particularly liked the interplay of teasing soprano and sporty cellos in 'Vos me matásteis' ('I die for love of you'), the second of this set, which is then followed by a bang-up performance of the familiar, catchy 'De los álamos vengo, madre' ('I've been down by the poplars, mother').

Fernando Obradors wrote wonderful songs that occasionally get sung by non-Spanish singers--I remember once being entranced by Elly Ameling singing the set recorded here by Bayrakdarian with superb assistance from pianist Parker, 'Canciones clásicas españolas' ('Classic Spanish Songs'). And I must say that at times I hear a hint of Ameling in Bayrakdarian's voice, something I call 'a smile in the voice.' This set is followed by an expert arrangmement, this time by Claude Kenneson, of Manuel de Falla's 'Suite populaire espagnole' that employs the cello ensemble (with some melting solo work by Epperson, their leader) playing three all-instrumental pieces and then accompanying Bayrakdarian in three of the six songs.

The CD is rounded out by Xavier Montsalatge's Lullaby from 'Cinco canciones negras,' the aforementioned Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and then the song that gives this album its title, Jayme Ovalle's 'Azulão' ('Bluebird'). The latter uses all the forces available here--soprano, pianist, cellists--in a haunting lament: 'Go bluebird, bluebird, companion of mine, go! Go see my faithless love.'

I cannot praise this issue highly enough. Ms Bayradkarian's voice is world-class and she sings with great musicality and feeling. Her accompanists are flawless. The recorded sound is quite good. The unattributed notes are very helpful. There are full translations of all the sung texts.

TT=76:14

Scott Morrison

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Following on the enormous success of her first recording for CBC RECORDS - Joyous Light (CBC SMCD 5215) ? the stunning young Canadian lyric soprano ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN turns her attention to the seductive colours and rhythms of Spain and Latin America. The centre piece of this recording is the vocal evergreen, Bachianas Brasileiras # 5 for soprano and eight cellos by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions in 1997, Isabel (who is of Armenian descent) has gone on to make debuts with such international companies as the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Paris Opera and La Scala (Milan), Semperoper (Dresden) and the Canadian Opera Company (Toronto).

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