Joseph Summer's The Shakespeare Concert Series 2 - The Fair Ophelia
NV5935
NEW RELEASE
Playing time: [c66']
Tracks: 12
Booklet pages: 8
© 2013 Navona Records LLC
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of Joseph Summer's The Shakespeare Concert Series 2 - The Fair Ophelia published on 6 July 2014
Listen: Joseph Summer: They Bore Him Barefaced On The Bier (track 3, 0:00-0:55)
Joseph Summer:
1 He Took Me By the Wrist (text: Shakespeare)
Kathryn Guthrie, soprano (Ophelia)
Miroslav Sekera, piano
Johannes Brahms:
2 Five Ophelia Songs (text: Shakespeare)
Kellie Van Horn, mezzo-soprano (Ophelia)
John McGinn, piano
Joseph Summer:
3 They Bore Him Barefaced on the Bier (text: Shakespeare)
Kathryn Guthrie, soprano (Ophelia)
Justin Vickers, tenor (Laertes)
Miroslav Sekera, piano
Richard Strauss:
Three Ophelia Songs Op 67 Nos 1-3 (text: Shakespeare)
4 Wie erkenn ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun
5 Guten Morgen, 's ist Senkt Valentinestag
6 Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahhre bloß
Andrea Chenoweth, soprano (Ophelia)
Miroslav Sekera, piano
Joseph Summer:
7 To My Sick Soul (Saint Valentine's Day) (text: Shakespeare)
Kathryn Guthrie, soprano (Ophelia)
Chad Sloan, baritone (Claudius)
Desiree Maira, mezzo-soprano (Gertrude)
Miroslav Sekera, piano
8 There is a Willow Grows Aslant A Brook (text: Shakespeare)
Desiree Maira, mezzo-soprano (Gertrude)
Miroslav Sekera, piano
Hector Berlioz:
9 La morte d'Ophélie (text: Ernest Legouvé, after Shakespeare)
Kellie Van Horn, mezzo-soprano
John McGinn, piano
Camille Saint-Saëns:
10 La morte d'Ophélie (text: Ernest Legouvé, after Shakespeare)
Andrea Chenoweth, soprano
John McGinn, piano
Robert Schumann:
11 Herzeleid (text: Titus Ulrich)
Andrea Chenoweth, soprano
John McGinn, piano
John Cage:
12 Ophelia
John McGinn, piano
Recorded 25-27 September 2011 (tracks 1, 3, 7-8) and 28 March 2012 (tracks 2, 4-6 and 9-12) at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA, USA
Study scores and extended liner notes available on the CD
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