Songs of Ned Rorem

Songs of Ned Rorem

Songs of Ned Rorem
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Composer: Ned Rorem
Performer: Regina Sarfaty
Performer: Ned Rorem
Performer: Gianna D'Angelo
Performer: Phyllis Curtin
Performer: Charles Bressler
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Music Label: Other Minds
Soundtracks:
  1. Song For a Girl
  2. To the Willow Tree
  3. Echo's Song
  4. Upon Julia's Clothes
  5. The Silver Swan
  6. Psalm 134 'Behold, Bless Ye The Lord, All Ye Servants Of The Lord...'
  7. Psalm 148 'Praise Ye The Lord. Praise Ye The Lord From The Heavens...'
  8. Psalm 150 'Praise Ye the Lord. Praise God In His Sanctuary...'
  9. The Lordly Hudson
  10. Snake
  11. Rain In Spring
  12. Root Celler
  13. Sally's Smile
  14. Such Beauty As Hurts To Behold
  15. My Papa's Wallz
  16. Early In the Morning
  17. I Am Rose
  18. See How They Love Me
  19. Visit To Saint Elizabeth's
  20. A Christmas Carol
  21. The Nightlife
  22. The Call
  23. Spring And Fall
  24. Spring
  25. To You
  26. Youth, Day, Old Age, And Night
  27. O You Whom I Often And Silently Come
  28. Pippa's Song
  29. Lullaby Of the Woman Of the Mountain
  30. What If Some Little Pain
  31. In a Gondola
  32. Requiem

Music reviews of Songs of Ned Rorem

Music Review: the Missing Link in Rorem fandom
Rating: 5 Stars

This is the quality collection that has been frustratingly absent from CD until now. There's nothing wrong with the collections featuring Carol Farley and Susan Graham; they each bring their own styles and interpretations to Rorem's music, and Farley is even accompanied by him (as is everyone on this disc).

But those later recordings feature a contemporaniety that is miles away from how the songs were originally conceived. This recording dates from 1964, and the clarity and enunciation of the singers is a revelation! Every note is clear, as is every single word. Rorem's unstudied playing is a simple, strong and pure counterpart (as his arrangements often carry on counter-melodies to the vocal lines), a series of frames for each of his distinctive and rather declarative singers.

We might prefer a more nuanced, more emotive and individualistic style today, and his songs sound fine in that mode. But they were initially conceived for this very simple and uber-competent manner, and unadorned as they are here the words of the poets that Rorem has set shine in vital clarity.

The poets include Roethke, Hopkins, Whitman, Stein, Bishop and Browning, and the songs range from less than a minute to four minutes in length. Especially memorable are the intensity of Phyllis Curtin's flexible soprano, the warm baritone of Donald Graham, while Charles Bressler verges on tenor, and Regina Safferty has a more alto range that works well for the speak-singing Rorem sometimes calls for.

These are his ideal collaborators, and this album is a definitive example of American art song. Rorem has discussed in his diaries the rise of the Beatles, and written of something approaching envy and competition with their popular success as songwriters. One can see why, because on one level (not the popular one) they were competitors; Rorem was just as modern, just as responsive to both musical history and the present. But Rorem's mode is the classical world, an alternative to rock and roll in every way. Rorem combines the French modernism of the Debussy school with an awareness of Satie's flexible non-standard structures, and the rigor of German atonal Expressionism.

The genre he writes in was once the popular mode, but that battle was lost around the time he was born. He could not have admitted those other (country and blues) sensibilities into his work and preserved the unique (if rarified) distinction he has attained.
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