Album Review
Da Capo In Song [coll] [New World Records]
cujo 8/20/2012 A Library
The Da Capo Chamber Players, USA’s leading (and longest-lasting?) Pierrot ensemble, are captured in 1984 (with original pianist Joan Tower) playing a selection of American “chamber music songs”. The early Copland is particularly skippable, Talma’s Diadem also did nothing for me.
But Miriam Gideon’s settings were arresting, partly for the music, mostly for Constantine Cassolas’ incredible voice (rare praise from Cujo for a tenor)
And unsurprisingly, Cowell’s Vocalise delivers spectacularly. Prepend with any of the classical Vocalise precedents (Rachmaninoff, Delibes, etc), append with any number of items in our library featuring wordless sopranos (Kyriakides, Cracow Klezmer Band, etc)
-Cujo, KFJC, Aug 2012
you heard it 4 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 978 days ago, Pax Humana played As It Fell Upon a Day
- 3756 days ago, abacus finch played Vocalise
- 3794 days ago, Cousin Mary played Vocalise
- 3808 days ago, Cousin Mary played As It Fell Upon a Day
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