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Topic: NEW CDs
Dorothy Maynor in Concert at the Library of Congress (1940); GreatPerformances from the Library of Congress, Volume 24; Dorothy Maynor,
soprano; Arpad Sandor, piano; Handel: Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave
Me?;
Beethoven: Der Kusse, Op. 128; Adelaide, Op. 46; Schumann: Du bist wie
eine
Blume, Op. 25, No. 24; Brahms: Meine Liebe ist grün; R. Strauss:
Wiegenlied,
Op. 41, No. 1; Wie sollten wir geheim sie halten, Op. 19, No. 4;
Schubert:
Ave Maria; Debussy: Beau Soir; Bizet: Adieux de l'hôtesse arabe;
Charpentier: Depuis le jour; Gabriel Grovlez: Guitares et mandolines;
R.
Nathaniel Dett; My Day; S. Coleridge-Taylor: She Rested By the Broken
Brook;
Thou Art Risen, My Belovéd; Cecil Cohen: Epitaph for a Poet;
Spirituals:
Lead Me To the Water; I'm Seekin' For a City; I'm Goin' to tell God All
My
Troubles; Ride On, Jesus, Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit; Were You There.
BRIDGE 9233 ADD
This release of this newly re-mastered 1940 recital by the great
Dorothy
Maynor is cause for celebration. Historian Rosalyn M. Story writes, "In
the
history of American singers, Dorothy Maynor stands out as an artist
endowed
with the power to exalt, to transport the hearer above the realm of the
ordinary and beyond the limits of normal expectation." A discovery of
Serge
Koussevitzky, who called her, "a musical revelation," Maynor quickly
established herself as one of the great talents of the era. This
recital
program contains riveting interpretations of songs and arias from the
German
and French and American repertoire. Maynor's last group, and her
encores
focus on Negro spirituals. Writing in the Washington Post, Paul Hume
called
Maynor's voice, "a star-spangled glory; its effortless beauty haunted
audiences that came to love the singer as much as the song." It was
that
kind of communication that endeared Maynor to audiences, and made her
one of
her country's greatest singers.
Artur Balsam In Concert at the Manhattan School of Music; Artur Balsam,piano
Disc A: Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI, 50;
Ludwig
van Beethoven: Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
Disc B: Johannes Brahms:
Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119, No. 1; Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118,
No.
2; Capriccio in C-sharp minor, Op. 76, No. 5; Felix Mendelssohn: Lied
ohne
Worte in E-flat major, Op. 67, No. 1; Fryderyk
Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op. 63; Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No.
2;
Polonaise in E-flat minor, Op. 76, No. 2 Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17,
No. 4;
Variations brillantes, Op. 12
BRIDGE 9226A/B (Two discs for the price of one) ADD and DDD
This exciting release presents the Polish born pianist Artur Balsam
(1904-1994) in concert performances given during the latter part of the
great artist's career. The two-disc set is drawn from three recitals
given
by the pianist in 1982, 1986 and 1987. Balsam's intense musicality and
his
formidable technique remained with him to the end of his life and these
recordings,
crowned by a stunning account of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, show
him
deepening his art to the end.
These other Artur Balsam discs are also available from Bridge- all 2
discs
for the price of one!
Mozart Recordings: Concertos, K. 449, 450, 453, 456; Sonata K. 330;
Rondo K.
511 BRIDGE 9217A/B
Concerto Album: Concertos by Beethoven, Mozart, Hummel, & C.P.E. Bach
BRIDGE
9196A/B
Chamber Music by Dvorak and Chausson BRIDGE 9225A/B
