This disc is a slightly odd compilation of three song-cycles by Dominick Argento (one of America's best vocal composers) and fifteen minutes of vocal music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is an eighty-minute disc with very natural recital-hall type sound produced by Çedille's honcho James Ginsberg and the top engineering team of Mitchell G. Heller and Lawrence Rock.Each of the five sets of songs on it is for a different sort of accompaniment. The constant factor is the soprano, the talented recitalist Patrice Michaels Bedi ...
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This disc is a slightly odd compilation of three song-cycles by Dominick Argento (one of America's best vocal composers) and fifteen minutes of vocal music by Ralph Vaughan Williams. It is an eighty-minute disc with very natural recital-hall type sound produced by Çedille's honcho James Ginsberg and the top engineering team of Mitchell G. Heller and Lawrence Rock.Each of the five sets of songs on it is for a different sort of accompaniment. The constant factor is the soprano, the talented recitalist Patrice Michaels Bedi (sometimes billed more simply as Patrice Michaels).Argento's Letters from Composers uses guitar as accompaniment, sensitively and dramatically played by Jeffrey Kust. The cycle has a striking range of moods ranging from terrified (Chopin's despairing letter from the cold Mallorcan monastery), to enraged (Mozart's letter about being by fired by the Archbishop of Salzburg), to loving (a Robert Schumann letter to Clara), and Kust is a major factor in allowing Michaels Bedi to portray them...
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Add this copy of To Be Sung Upon the Water: Song Cycles By Argento and to cart. $26.56, new condition, Sold by newtownvideo rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from huntingdon valley, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Cedille Records.
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