Felicity Lott / Graham Johnson
Summertime
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212590091
- Catalog number CHRCD 008
- Release date 01 July 2010
About the album
Dame Felicity Lott, revered British soprano, says of this CD:
"Summertime has many of my favourite songs in English, French and German. We made the CD at a friend's house, and the sessions were so relaxed, with no London traffic to cause endless retakes! It's a real mix of beautiful songs of all kinds, on a summer theme. I chose songs I loved, from Gershwin to Christopher Robin..."
Three centuries of song are represented here, and, as BBC Music Magazine's Hilary Finch put it "such is the skill of Johnson's programming that the entire recital seems to be a single, sustained exhalation of rapture and reflection"
She went on to say:
"The upper reaches of Lott's still gleaming soprano inhabit Barber's "Shining Night" and Fauré's "Clair de lune". And her robust English version of Schubert's "Who is Sylvia?" finds an irresistible companion in Arne's "Where the Bee Sucks", with its veritable midsummer night's dream of an accompaniment from Johnson. The artists' palpable sense of joy and well-being gathers momentum as they visit Berlioz's "L'ile inconnue" and as they sing on the water with Schubert. And Lott and Johnson know well that the only way to face sentiment is to acknowledge its own integrity, as they do when they listen to Haydn Wood's "Little Brown Bird" and eavesdrop with Fraser-Simson on Christopher Robin saying his prayers.
This album features songs from a great variety of composers - Gershwin, Barber, Cole Porter, Bernstein, Brahms, Schubert, Arne, Schumann, Berlioz, and many more.
A full 29 tracks of summer-themed songs!
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11Summertime
02:29 -
12Sure on This Shining Night
02:25 -
13The Shepherd's Song
02:53 -
14Clair de Lune
03:10 -
15Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
02:08 -
16Who Is Sylvia?
02:52 -
17Where the Bee Sucks
01:44 -
18L'Ile Inconnue
03:40 -
19Auf dem Wasser zu Singen
03:48 -
110Soir
02:24 -
111Der Nussbaum
03:48 -
112Meine Leibe ist Grün
01:40 -
113Ah Moon of My Delight
04:33 -
114Notre Amour
02:13 -
115Villanelle
02:22 -
116The Monk & His Cat
02:38 -
117Go Not, Happy Days
01:38 -
118To Daffodils
02:16 -
119Orpheus With His Lute
02:28 -
120The Trellis
02:45 -
121Love's Philosophy
01:30 -
122A Brown Bird Singing
02:37 -
123The Lark in the Clear Air
01:36 -
124Sleep
02:29 -
125The Tales of An Oyster
03:13 -
126My House
01:50 -
127The Little Road to Bethlehem
02:37 -
128Vespers
02:22 -
129The Lord Bless You & Keep You
02:22