Pure Diva - Tribute To Joan Hammond
Cheryl Barker, Queensland SO & Guillaume Tourniaire
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MR301129
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Description
The ravishing Australian soprano Cheryl Barker has an important career in many major opera houses - English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera and The Royal Opera Covent Garden among them – and concert halls. She is widely celebrated for her riveting performances. Pure Diva: is her very personal tribute to her teacher, the great Dame Joan Hammond, a disc, Barker says, "that feels as if it's been a long time coming". The orchestral scenes are high drama from the first note to the last reverberation. Cheryl's glorious lyric soprano rides the wave of Guillaume Tourniaire's orchestral texture in grand operatic scenes, arias and songs made famous by Hammond. They include Tatyana's Letter Scene, Dido's Lament, Desdemona's Willow Song, and other arias by Verdi, Dvorák, Korngold, and Offenbach. Cheryl's visceral portrayals of these operatic heroines convey the full emotional depth of these multi-dimensional characters in extremis. The tributes with piano accompaniment (by Timothy Young) provide a contrast to the preceding drama, encore pieces beloved of Joan Hammond, the biggest selling recording artist during the war. Her recording of The Green Hills o' Somerset became a best seller and Cheryl includes it as a homage here. The delightful rarity Shadows is a song written for Hammond by the Australian composer Ronald Settle. Illuminating CD notes are by the late and great vocal commentator John Steane who was an insightful witness to Dame Joan Hammond (1912-96) and all the great singers of her era and those that followed. Cheryl Barker's relationship with Melba Recordings stretches back almost to the label's beginning: Puccini=Passions was her acclaimed 2003 collection of arias with Richard Bonynge conducting Orchestra Victoria. Personnel: Cheryl Barker (soprano), Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Guillaume Tourniaire (conductor) -
Tracklisting
- 1. Yevgeny Onegin: Tatyana's Letter Scene (Tchaikovsky)
- 2. Otello: Willow Song (Verdi)
- 3. Otello: Ave Maria (Verdi)
- 4. Don Carlo: Tu che le vanita (Verdi)
- 5. Rusalka: Song to the moon (Dvorak)
- 6. Die Tode Stadt: Mariettas Lied (Korngold)
- 7. Les contes d'Hoffmann: Elle a fui
- 8. la tourterelle (Offenbach)
- 9. Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (Purcell)
- 10. Shadows (Ronald Settle)
- 11. Home Sweet Home (Bishop)
- 12. The Green Hills of Somerset (Eric Coates) . The Last Rose of Summer (Trad.)
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