Susan Graham - Songs of Ned Rorem
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Composer: Ned RoremPerformer: Susan Graham
Performer: Malcolm Martineau
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-04-04
Music Label: Erato
Soundtracks:
- Santa Fe Songs: No. 4, Sonnet
- Santa Fe Songs: No. 2, Opus 101
- Ode
- Santa Fe Songs: No. 8, The Wintry Mind
- Do I love you more than a day?
- Ferry Me Across the Water
- The Sowers (Santa Fe Songs No. 12)
- The Shadow, My Likeness
Music reviews of Susan Graham - Songs of Ned Rorem
Music Review: Absolutely beautiful!
Rating: 5 Stars
I am absolutely in love with Ned Rorem and Susan Graham! Her interpretation of these wonderful art songs is flawless. I wrote my Masters thesis on Ned Rorem and can't say enough about his brillant compositions! This CD is nothing short of pure enjoyment!
Description of Susan Graham - Songs of Ned Rorem
Contemporary composer Ned Rorem is typically likened to an American Schubert (living in Paris) for the fecundity, emotional range, and quality of his songs (though this represents only one facet of a prolific career). And Rorem's masterful 1998 cycle Evidence of Things Not Seen would seem to justify that reputation, as does this marvelous anthology from the Rorem songbook of the past half-century. The composer is fond of dividing musicians into the "German" and the "French," clearly identifying himself with the latter for the elusive sparkle and subtle play of shadows that characterize his art. What other kind of sensibility could "through-compose" Gertrude Stein's "I Am Rose" in a deftly perfect 27?seconds? Fortunately, American lyric mezzo Susan Graham intuitively understands this expressive aspect, as does pianist-partner Malcolm Martineau. Graham is constantly attentive to the marriage of music and text in the 32?songs here and phrases their little worlds into being with grace and wit. She can shade to a sweet vanishing point or allow her voice to blossom, orchidlike, into a dazzling profusion of colors. Few of these songs, which draw on the poetry of Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, Frank O'Hara, and many others, last more than two minutes. But their resonance lingers, whether in the haunting "Opus?101"--with its lean but potent string trio scoring--or the enigmatic "That Shadow, My Likeness" from Whitman. --Thomas MayGeneral CDs
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