英國偉大女高音詹妮弗·維維安 / 英格蘭作曲家作品以及英格蘭民謠 (DECCA世界首度CD發行)

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英國偉大女高音詹妮弗·維維安 / 英格蘭作曲家作品以及英格蘭民謠 (DECCA世界首度CD發行)
Songs of England / Jennifer Vyvyan; Norma Procter

Songs of England / Jennifer Vyvyan; Norma Procter
這張專輯收錄女高音詹妮弗·維維安所錄下的英國歌謠集.在大師的精挑細選下,收錄的每一首曲子都非常動聽,強力推薦!
 
An original Decca recording of the soprano, Jennifer Vyvyan, in English song repertoire, coupled with traditional folksongs with another much-loved English singer of the 1950s and 60s, Norma Procter.
 
In the August 1953 issue of Opera magazine, the editor looked back on outstanding vocal achievements in the preceding season of opera. Drawing largely from stagings in London, he could pick out Maria Callas as Norma, Kathleen Ferrier as Orpheus and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni as Boris Godunov. In this exalted company he placed a young English soprano who had made her professional debut just five years previously, singling out Jennifer Vyvyan as Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
 
Vyvyan’s penetrating soprano, ready dramatic wit and imposing presence had also caught the attention of Benjamin Britten. That professional debut was made in the premiere of his arrangement of The Beggar’s Opera and just two months prior to Opera magazine’s editorial seal of approval, she had appeared as Lady Penelope Rich in the much-anticipated premiere of Gloriana. As a recorded complement to this Coronation opera, she had gone into the Decca studios in April and May (while Gloriana was in rehearsal) and recorded this survey of English song which was duly rush-released with a crown on the cover and an advertising legend on the back cover, ‘to commemorate the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’.
 
Aside from its incidental place in recorded history, however, ‘Songs of England’ has many charms of its own. The repertoire spans four centuries, from an anonymous lute-song and the evergreen madrigal by Thomas Morley, ‘Now is the month of maying’ through to contemporary songs by Britten, Quilter and Vaughan Williams. In his booklet note, the critic Richard Wigmore draws particular attention to Vyvyan’s singing of Purcell: finding an instrumental purity of tone in Fairest Isle and lending both grace and agility to Nymphs and Shepherds.
 
Two years later, Decca issued a 10-inch LP of ‘Traditional Songs’ with the mezzo-soprano Norma Procter who, like Vyvyan, had studied at the Royal Academy of Music with the doyen of British vocal coaches, Roy Henderson. Procter died in May 2017 and this reissue of her first solo recital on record is a fitting tribute to the memory of a singer whose ‘exquisite contralto’ was critically recognised right from her distinguished debut on disc as part of Sir Adrian Boult’s recording of Messiah.
 
This CD is one of five recordings released by Eloquence celebrating the art of Jennifer Vyvyan. All Decca recordings from the 1950s, many appearing for the first time on Decca CDs, they include ‘Mr. Bach at Vauxhall Gardens’ (482 5387), the first recording of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (482 7449), arias by Mozart and Haydn (482 5049) and two litany settings by Mozart (482 5041).
 
曲目:
ANONYMOUS: Lye still my Deare
HENRY PURCELL:
Nymphs and Shepherds
Fairest Isle
THOMAS MORLEY: Now is the Month of Maying
ANONYMOUS: I will give my Love an Apple
THOMAS ARNE:
Where the bee sucks
O ravishing Delight
TRADITIONAL:
Bobby Shaftoe
Cherry Ripe
The Sprig of Thyme
TRAD., arr. BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Sweet Polly Oliver
HEAD: Foxgloves
HERBERT HOWELLS: Gavotte
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The New Ghost
HOPKINS: A Melancholy Song
QUILTER: Love’s Philosophy
 
Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano
Ernest Lush, piano
 
TRADITIONAL:
Lord Rendal
I’m Seventeen come Sunday
How Deep in Love am I
ANONYMOUS: O no John
TRADITIONAL:
Jan
Soldier, Soldier
ANONYMOUS: O can ye sew Cushions?
 
Norma Procter, contralto
Alec Redshaw, piano
 
FIRST INTERNATIONAL RELEASE ON DECCA CD
 

英国伟大女高音詹妮弗·维维安 / 英格兰作曲家作品以及英格兰民谣 （DECCA世界首度CD发行）