Echoes of Nightingales

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All Music Guide - James Manheim
This little disc, thoroughly American in conception despite its British issuer, offers more than it might seem at first glance. American soprano Christine Brewer was inspired to collect the material by her work with a voice teacher, Glenn Freiner of McKendree College in Illinois, who heard Kirsten Flagstad, Eileen Farrell, Helen Traubel, and Eleanor Steber as they toured the U.S. and collected programs or wrote down what they sang. Brewer's program is thus a snapshot of some music that was once reasonably common but has now, with the exception of the Broadway selections by Leonard Bernstein, Vincent Youmans, and a few others, been almost totally forgotten. Some of the ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - James Manheim
This little disc, thoroughly American in conception despite its British issuer, offers more than it might seem at first glance. American soprano Christine Brewer was inspired to collect the material by her work with a voice teacher, Glenn Freiner of McKendree College in Illinois, who heard Kirsten Flagstad, Eileen Farrell, Helen Traubel, and Eleanor Steber as they toured the U.S. and collected programs or wrote down what they sang. Brewer's program is thus a snapshot of some music that was once reasonably common but has now, with the exception of the Broadway selections by Leonard Bernstein, Vincent Youmans, and a few others, been almost totally forgotten. Some of the material has a precious quality, it's true, but set aside the contemporary requirement of irony for a while and you'll probably enjoy the album. Hardhearted would be the listener who could resist "Sea Moods" by Mildred Lund Tyson, for whom not even a deathdate is known, with its picture of white wavelets "tumbling along, rippling with song, as tho' to mock my tears." Several of the composers are women; the charmingly named Idabelle Firestone was the wife of Harvey Firestone of tire and rubber fame. The soprano with which each song was identified is indicated, but all the music is cut from the same cloth even though the four singers represented had quite different repertories. Brewer has a pleasant, rounded voice and the right sense of humor for the material, but she's oddly a bit less comfortable in the pieces that approach the American popular language most closely. Nevertheless, this album will be of interest to popular music buffs as well as to fans of the opera singers involved, for, with the exception of Flagstad, these singers had a place in the popular world. No less a figure than Jimmy Durante is said to have mistakenly entered Traubel's dressing room and emerged with the remark "Nobody knows the Traubel I've seen." A charming find for vocalists, who should definitely check out the hilarious final track, "Review"; it is Brewer's own encore, not one from the repertoires of the four main singers.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 3/8/2011
  • Label: Hyperion Uk
  • UPC: 034571178134
  • Catalog Number: 67813
  • Sales rank: 212,303

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Sing to me, sing, Op 28 - Sidney Homer & Sidney Homer (1:49)
    Composed bySidney Homer, Sidney Homer
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  2. 2 O Lovely Night for voice & orchestra - Landon Ronald & Landon Ronald (3:22)
    Composed byLandon Ronald, Landon Ronald
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  3. 3 At parting - James H. Rogers & James H. Rogers (1:47)
    Composed byJames H. Rogers, James H. Rogers
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  4. 4 Sleep That Flits On Baby's Eyes for voice & piano - John Alden Carpenter & John Alden Carpenter (2:26)
    Composed byJohn Alden Carpenter, John Alden Carpenter
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  5. 5 Hickory Hill - Sargent & Christine Brewer (2:34)
    Composed bySargent, Paul Sargent
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  6. 6 Through the Years, operetta: [Excerpt] - Vincent Youmans & Vincent Youmans (3:55)
    Composed byVincent Youmans, Vincent Youmans
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  7. 7 There shall be more joy - Paul Nordoff & Nordoff (2:12)
    Composed byPaul Nordoff, Nordoff
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  8. 8 Hills - Frank La Forge & Frank La Forge (2:31)
    Composed byFrank La Forge, Frank La Forge
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  9. 9 Love went a-riding, for voice & piano (or orchestra), H 114 - Frank Bridge & Frank Bridge (1:53)
    Composed byFrank Bridge, Frank Bridge
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  10. 10 In my garden - Idabelle Firestone & Christine Brewer (3:42)
    Composed byIdabelle Firestone, Idabelle Firestone
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  11. 11 Will You Remember?, song (from "Maytime") - Sigmund Romberg & Sigmund Romberg (4:21)
    Composed bySigmund Romberg, Sigmund Romberg
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  12. 12 If I Could Tell You - Idabelle Firestone & Christine Brewer (3:18)
    Composed byIdabelle Firestone, Idabelle Firestone
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  13. 13 Die Letzte Rose (as interpolated into "Martha") - Friedrich von Flotow & Friedrich von Flotow (2:48)
    Composed byFriedrich von Flotow, Friedrich von Flotow, Thomas Moore
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  14. 14 Song of Songs (Chanson du coeur brisé), for voice & piano (or orchestra) - Harold Vicars Moya & Christine Brewer (4:47)
    Composed byHarold Vicars Moya, Harold Vicars Moya
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  15. 15 Stopping By the Woods On A Snowy Evening, for voice & piano - John La Montaine & John La Montaine (1:49)
    Composed byJohn La Montaine, John La Montaine
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  16. 16 Happiness is a thing called Joe, song - Harold Arlen & Harold Arlen (3:59)
    Composed byHarold Arlen, Harold Arlen
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  17. 17 On the Town, musical: Some other time - Leonard Bernstein & Leonard Bernstein (2:34)
    Composed byLeonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein
    Performed byChristine Brewer
  18. 18 When I Have Sung My Songs, for voice & piano (or orchestra) - Ernest Charles & Ernest Charles (2:16)
    Composed byErnest Charles, Ernest Charles
    Performed byChristine Brewer
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Christine Brewer Primary Artist
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