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Sax, John: Schubert, Winterreise

Sax, John: Schubert, Winterreise
ID: CDA1652-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano

A daring choice of repertoare. Sax belongs to the new generation of singers, with a deep baryton, very well suited to the darker songs in…
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SOGNO D’OR - Songs by Giacomo RUCCINI - Krassimira STOYANOVA, soprano - Maria PRINZ, piano

SOGNO D’OR - Songs by Giacomo RUCCINI - Krassimira STOYANOVA, soprano - Maria PRINZ, piano
ID: GD300
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano

BONUS: Salve Regina (soprano e organo)
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Antonio Nani - Messa in onore di S. Paolo Nafrago (Messa del Naufrago)

Antonio Nani - Messa in onore di S. Paolo Nafrago (Messa del Naufrago)
ID: GR04
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra

Recorded on 1st-2nd December 2008 in the Chapel of the Porziuncola House of
the Franciscan Fathers, Bahar ic-Caghaq, Malta.

Antonio Nani’s Messa is the tenth programme of the series with Maltese music released by Gega New with the support of APS Bank, Malta. The album adds to the selection of Maltese composers and acquaints us with a very interesting composer. Similar to most of the writers before him, Nani was also influenced by Italian musical culture and during the greater part of his life he lived and worked in Napoli. He has written operas, symphony music, messas. He was strongly influenced by Romanticism. Some of his most popular works are: Messa in onore di S. Paolo Naufrago, Messa da requiem, Responsori dei morti and the three magnificent operas Zorilla, Agnese Visconti ? I cavalieri di Malta.
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Wendy Nieper -first flight

Wendy Nieper -first flight
ID: FHR10
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Jazz

Recorded and mastered by Nick Taylor, Porcupine Studios.
With Special guest - Digby Fairweather - Trumpet

One of the leading jazz vocalists in the UK, Wendy Nieper is a very versatile, sophisticated jazz vocalist and a gifted scat singer. Her rich vocal colors are complemented by wonderful phrasing and great musicality. Her wide experience as a singer includes being a member of the Swingle Singers with whom she recorded five albums. She has appeared on numerous albums both as a classical and jazz singer and has toured extensively around the globe. On this album, Nieper is accompanied by a great band including the talented composer/ pianist Roland Perrin and the jazz legend Digby Fairweather. First Flight is an explosive mix of styles from Cuban to jazz and pop to funk. If you like Diana Krall, Stacey Kent, Claire Martin then we are sure you will love First Flight.

Booklet notes

When you break open the packaging of a new album and put it into the CD player, do you always start at the beginning? Maybe it is years of building radio programmes and reviewing CDs, but I tend to make for the standards first. Of course it is interesting to hear completely new music - and there’s plenty of it on offer here - but I confess to having started listening to this album with Good Bait and Ponciana. The reasoning goes that you’ll quickly get the measure of a singer and her accompanists according to how they tackle familiar material.
I wasn’t more than half a bar into Good Bait when my ears pricked up. Here was Tadd Dameron’s epitome of a four-four swing theme transferred into a dancing 6/8 rhythm. After a quick zip through the vocalise of the verse, a nice scat chorus is followed by some deft unison between voice and piano. Meanwhile, Ponciana escapes nicely from the shadow of Ahmad Jamal, and becomes a fresh-sounding piece, with some inventive vocal harmonies on the introductory theme and a sweetly sung chorus that steers a neat course between the gauche ingénue qualities of an Astrud Gilberto and the more knowing approach of a Julie London. Clearly Wendy Nieper is a singer who is prepared to tackle familiar material with originality, and she is paced every step of the way by pianist and, on several tracks, composer, Roland Perrin.
I knew Roland’s work from the Blue Planet Orchestra, and as a pianist who had worked with many visiting stars, especially the South Africans in exile who had congregated around the Brotherhood of Breath. I had not realised that like Wendy Nieper, he had a foot, if not an entire leg, in the classical world as well.
For pianists, there are plenty of precedents for straddling the classical and jazz worlds. Fats Waller and James P. Johnson were both accomplished classical players, as was Art Tatum. Bud Powell recorded his personal take on J. S. Bach, and more recently both Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett have moved effectively between the worlds of the Mozartian concert hall and the jazz club. It is less usual for a singer to make a reputation in both the jazz and classical worlds.
Wendy Nieper, however, is someone who has, with duo recordings of Chopin, Canteloube, Sondheim and Bernstein to her credit.
“I focussed on classical singing first,” she told me, “because it demands that you train your voice before you reach a certain age. Classical singing involves a completely different technique from jazz, because you have to develop a core sound, and aim for very clear pronunciation. I’ve always stressed that what I do involves two very different voices. The classical voice is designed to project. It’s very loud, and has a brilliance and ring to it. My jazz voice, on the other hand, is very quiet and intimate, and it plays on things that the microphone gives you. It can be breathy; you can distort your vowel sounds for effect, and be more casual about your consonants. It comes from a different place physically, so you have to change your vocal position.”


The opening track, Blower’s Daughter makes this point perfectly, with Wendy caressing the lyric in a manner a classical singer could not contemplate. Yet the purity of her sound and her use of different registers is a clue to the rigorous training she has undergone, and her mastery of vocal technique. Originally, she had intended to give the first chorus of Solomente a classical treatment, projecting her soprano voice over Perrin’s deft classically inspired rhythmic figures. But it sounded wrong, and instead she ended up with the humming chorus that introduces Pablo Neruda’s Spanish lyrics. The closest she comes to revealing her classical voice is in the link between these and the English version of what she describes as a “landscape song”.
Landscape is important to Wendy in her own song writing. In Roland Perrin, whom she met at a house party she threw a while ago, she has found a collaborator who shares her love of terrain, and of experiment. She says. “I love singing descriptive lyrics like in Empty Beach (a song about someone lost in thought on a seashore) where it runs ‘Clouds drift high in a vast rose sky, time dissolves in a sea bird’s cry’ or ‘Holding on to a silk thin thread, of images forming then quickly shed’. We experimented with the music so that in that same song we do a contrary motion scale (piano going up, voice going down) just before the words ‘Can Echo’ which I then echo in a different key!” From our conversation, I was intrigued to learn that Digby Fairweather’s Harmon muted trumpet here is representing a seagull!
Tree also explores landscape themes, although Wendy confesses this song has been with her a long time, saying, “The rhythmic theme came from a ditty that I wrote as a kid. And Roland kindly made it into something real and quite different.” Their partnership nods in the direction of the jazz tradition as well, on the quirky Monk-ish What’ll it be?, which was written about a waitress in a restaurant where Wendy once worked in Richmond, Surrey.
Overall, the album is a highly successful blend of new takes on old material, and new takes on new material. Although she and Roland had met and discussed the music before the session, Wendy stresses that it was recorded in the age-old manner of jazz records, where four musicians who had not recorded together before arrived on the day and played music that was new to all of them. Each take was an adventure, and the same applied to the second day of recording when Helder Pack replaced Guy Silk for another voyage into the unknown. And as a bonus, Wendy adds quite a few improvised sections at the end of the songs, scatting or humming as an instrumentalist, playing off her fellow musicians, and turning the entire album into a genuine musical conversation, which like all discourses, runs deep and shallow, and hot and cold, and fast and slow, as it develops.
© 2011 Alyn Shipton (Jazz critic, The Times)
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John Mc Cormack - Irish Tenor Ballads

John Mc Cormack -  Irish Tenor Ballads
ID: RRC1092
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Legendary Voices

Splendid selection of tenor ballads sung by one of the greatest.
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Paolino Vassallo - Grande Messa

Paolino Vassallo - Grande Messa
ID: GR100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Voices and Orchestra

Recorded in the Chapel of the Porziuncola House of the Franciscan Fathers, Malta, in December 2005

Paolino Vassallo was one of the most prominent Maltese composers, the first to move away consciously from the dominating Italian influence on Maltese music. After local music studies in Malta, in 1875 he left for Paris, where he remained for 10 years and continued his studies mainly with Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet. On his return to Malta in 1885, he founded in Valletta his extremely successful Music Institute. His students included the most important composers of the first half of the twentieth century, among them Domenico Anastasi, Giuseppe Caruana, Carlo Diacono, etc.
Vassallo composed both sacred and non-sacred music. His three operas, where Massenet’s example is quite evident, are very popular.
A concert version of the Grande Messa was first performed in the hall of the Public Library, Valletta, in 1889. He started working on the work while still in France. The music is richly melodious, with opulent orchestration. The soloists are treated predominantly as an ensemble group rather that as individuals and the Messa is dignified, grandiose and full of religious feelings.
The present release is again a result of the cooperation between APS Bank and Gega New Music House, an initiative which led to releasing seven CDs with Maltese music of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Stephan Loges / Alexander Schmalcz: Schumann, Franz & Brahms: Lieder

Stephan Loges / Alexander Schmalcz: Schumann, Franz & Brahms: Lieder
ID: ATHCD23202
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano

A wonderful recital by two of Germany's top musicians. Both well -loved songs such as Brahms' "Lullaby" ( Cradle Song) and Schumann's magnificent Dichterliebe, and also lesser known but equally worthy Heine settings by Robert Franz.
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Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin - Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor & Joanna Leach, square piano

Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin - Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor & Joanna Leach,  square piano
ID: ATHCD6
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionSubkolektion: Vocal and Piano

This work is played on a Clementi square piano of 1832 and is therefore a genuine reconstruction of the sort of sound heard in Schubert’s day. The instrument was restored by Andrew Lancaster. A very rare opportunity to hear one of the greatest vocals works ever written, as it would have sounded to the composer's contemporaries.
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S. Richter (piano) - D. Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) - Franz Schubert: Lieder

S. Richter (piano) - D. Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) - Franz Schubert: Lieder
ID: MKM268
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal Collection

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S. Richter (piano) - D. Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) - Hugo Wolf - Mörike-Lieder

S. Richter (piano) - D. Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) - Hugo Wolf - Mörike-Lieder
ID: MKM270
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Vocal Collection

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