Susan Graham - Songs of Ned Rorem_音乐专辑
Susan Graham - Songs of Ned Rorem
又名: 美国作曲家内德·罗莱姆歌曲集
表演者: Susan Graham/Malcolm Martineau/Ensemble Oriol
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2000-04-04
唱片数: 1
出版者: Erato
条形码: 0685738022229
专辑简介
内德·罗莱德（1923）在美国音乐界独树一帜，在两个领域——歌曲创作和评论随笔上无人能比，兼有作曲家和作家之名。早年跟随普朗克习乐，其大量的歌曲中能清晰感受到普朗克那种流畅清新的特点，被誉为美国艺术歌曲创作的一流大师。
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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 May
曲目
That Shadow, My Likeness [Whitman]
