Great Operatic Arias, Vol. 17 - Christine Brewer

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Great Operatic Arias, Vol. 17 - Christine Brewer

Running Time: 72:28

CD UPC: 0095115312728

Release Date: August 2005
Originally recorded in March 2004

Composer (1813-1883)
Richard Wagner

Composer (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer (1714-1787)
Christoph Willibald Gluck

Composer (1786-1826)
Carl Maria von Weber

Composer (1842-1900)
Sir Arthur Sullivan

Composer (1882-1953)
Emmerich Kalman

Composer (1902-1979)
Richard Rodgers

Composer (1870-1948)
Franz Lehár

Composer (1792-1868)
Gioachino Rossini

Composer (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven

Composer (1921-1998)
Bob Merrill

Soprano Voice soprano
Christine Brewer

Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor
David Parry

Venue
Blackheath Halls, London

Producer
Brian Couzens

Engineer
Jonathan Cooper

Engineer (Assistant)
Michael Common

Genre:
Vocal & Song
Opera in English

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Great Operatic Arias, Vol. 17 - Christine Brewer

RICHARD WAGNER

(1813-1883)

Elizabeth's Greeting from Tannhäuser

4:55

'Great hall of song'

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

(1756-1791)

Donna Anna's Vengeance Aria from Don Giovanni

6:14

'Don Ottavio, I'm dying' -

'He threatened my honour'

with Barry Banks tenor

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK

(1714-1787)

Alceste's Aria from Alceste

4:41

'Almighty gods of death!'

CARL MARIA VON WEBER

(1786-1826)

Reiza's Recitative and Aria from Oberon

8:49

'Ocean! Thou mighty monster' -

'Still I see thy billows flashing'

SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN

(1842-1900)

Elsie's Song from The Golden Legend

5:09

'The night is calm and cloudless'

with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

CARL MARIA VON WEBER

Recitative and Duet of Euryanthe and Eglantine from Euryanthe

3:59

'Ah, what have I done?' -

'Fading is the star that guides me'

with Janice Watson soprano

EMMERICH KALMAN

(1882-1953)

Ensemble and Maritza's Entrance from Countess Maritza

6:54

'Gypsy airs and joyful phrases' -

'Where is love's kingdom?'

with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

RICHARD RODGERS

(1902-1979)

from Carousel 'You'll never walk alone'

4:01

with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

FRANZ LEHÁR

(1870-1948)

Giuditta's Aria from Giuditta

5:45

'Why ever should it be'

with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

GIOACHINO ROSSINI

(1792-1868)

10.

from Stabat Mater

4:19

'Blessed virgin, may the flame of love'

with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

(1770-1827)

11.

Concert Aria 'Ah perfido!'

13:16

'Ah! Treachery and falsehood!' -

'Ah, my love, how can you leave me'

BOB MERRILL

(1921-1998)

12.

Lili's song from Carnival

4:26

'I came on two buses and a train'

76:57

Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor: David Parry

7, 9 & 10 March 2005

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Reviews

The music chosen leaves no room for monotony as it ranges from Wagner to Gluck, Sullivan to Rodgers, Rossini to Léhar and the recital ends with Bob Merrill’s’ Mira – can you imagine that?’, but it seems to work a s a totality. Brewers ample, intense singing is heard at its best in the Wagner item ‘Great hall of the song’ (Tanhäuser) where she weaves an ecstatic cantilena.

Opera Now

…her voice is a flood of molten fold, glittering and seductive…

Classic FM Magazine

Reiza’s large-scale ‘ocean! Thou mighty monster’ is delivered with the right panache tinged with sensitivity, and benefits from being sung in an original English text. Beethoven’s scena ‘Ah! perfido’, as one would expect from her Leonore, is another success, sympathetic in tone, the line always exemplary. It is also good to hear her gentler accents in ‘The night is calm’, a fine solo from Sullivan’s ‘The Golden Legend’…

Gramophone

It’s certainly a thrilling sound (try Gluck’s ‘Alceste’) and most of the fabled difficulties of Weber’s ‘Ocean! Thou mighty monster’ (composed to an English text) do not phase her.

BBC Music Magazine

The Met is a hard house to fill, but Brewer’s huge, luscious voice did the job without any apparent effort. Her vocal control is amazing, her upper range utterly gorgeous, her German diction impeccable, her presence commanding.

Opera

Hats off, gentlemen. A diva. The real, rare, wondrous thing. Her name is Christine Brewer.

London Evening Standard

Few sopranos today give us ‘The night is calm’ from Sullivan’s ‘The Golden Legend’ and how tenderly Miss Brewer transforms herself here from Wagnerian soprano to the English tradition. No surprise, then, that she makes something special of ‘You’ll never walk alone’ and is enchanting in Lehár and Kálmán and magnificent in Beethoven’s ‘Ah Perfido!’ Some singer. David Parry conducts the Philharmonia in excellent accompaniments tot his variety of musical styles.

Sunday Telegraph

Brewer, in stunning voice, has a matchless way with words, gloriously capturing Isolde’s every swerve from despair to rage and self-pity.

Guardian

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