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The Harmonious Echo: there are plenty of delights in this second dip into Sullivan's neglected song repertoire
[…] though Sullivan's fondness for the strophic form is not always idea. But not every song on the disc is from the workroom floor, most were written for a purpose. They were intended for the parlour and the salon, so that the wonderfully charming I heard the Nightingale was 'Sung by Mr. Sims Reeves at the Monday Popular Concerts' and Will He Come?, the first Adelaide Procter setting on the disc, was 'Composed expressly for Madame Sainton Dolby’. These were songs which were written for a new breed of professional singers to perform in concerts, in salons and in the hope and expectation that the songs would be popular and be published. Will He Come? transformed Sullivan's finances, it was the first song that he published with Boosey & Hawkes and for the first time Sullivan did not sell the song outright but received a royalty, and he did very well […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-04-14 01:55:20
A Worthy Mendelssohnian Revival
[…] lift, the key wends its way back to the tonic while the music becomes variously exultant and reverent (the seventh number is a marvelous setting of “Nun danket,” with a dramatic a cappella first stanza), building to the finale in which Mendelssohn works subtly by degrees to reintroduce the motto theme, stated in full form only at the very end. It remains to commend the work of the vocal contributors, sopranos Deborah Selig and Renée Sainton and tenor Gregory Zavracky, and the chorus itself. Selig has a superb vocal instrument, dead-center intonation, satisfactory German diction, a well-controlled vibrato and a commanding dramatic presence. In a supporting role, Sainton was evocative and silken, and well matched with Selig in their duet, “Ich harrete des Herrn.” Zavracky was also dramatically effective, clarion and tonally centered, though his vibrato was sometimes a bit wide for our taste; he could have been a bit […]
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