Bryn Terfel - Some Enchanted Evening
A crossover compilation full of delights
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Composer or Director: Frederick Loewe, Irving Berlin, Burton Lane, Richard Rodgers, Kurt (Julian) Weill
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Magazine Review Date: 12/2001
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 77
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: 471 425-2GH
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Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
South Pacific, Movement: Some Enchanted Evening |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
South Pacific, Movement: There is Nothin' Like a Dame |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Keith Mills, Tenor Maurice Bowen, Bass Opera North Chorus Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer Stephen Briggs, Tenor Stephen Dowson, Bass-baritone |
South Pacific, Movement: Younger Than Springtime |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
Carousel, Movement: If I loved you |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
Carousel, Movement: You'll never walk alone |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Opera North Chorus Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
Oklahoma!, Movement: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
(The) King and I, Movement: Something Wonderful |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
(The) King and I, Movement: I Have Dreamed |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
Allegro, Movement: A fellow needs a girl |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
Allegro, Movement: Come home |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
(The) Sound of Music, Movement: Edelweiss |
Richard Rodgers, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor Richard Rodgers, Composer |
Camelot, Movement: How to handle a woman |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
Camelot, Movement: If ever I would leave you |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
My Fair Lady, Movement: On the Street Where You Live |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
My Fair Lady, Movement: Get Me to the Church On Time |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Opera North Chorus Paul Daniel, Conductor |
Brigadoon, Movement: There but for you I go |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
Paint your Wagon, Movement: I was born under a wanderin' star |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Opera North Chorus Paul Daniel, Conductor |
Paint your Wagon, Movement: They call the wind Maria |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Opera North Chorus Paul Daniel, Conductor |
The Little Prince, Movement: Little Prince |
Frederick Loewe, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Frederick Loewe, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Movement: She Wasn't You |
Burton Lane, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone Burton Lane, Composer English Northern Philharmonia Paul Daniel, Conductor |
Love Life, Movement: Here I'll stay |
Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Kurt (Julian) Weill, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
White Christmas, Movement: White Christmas |
Irving Berlin, Composer
Bryn Terfel, Bass-baritone English Northern Philharmonia Irving Berlin, Composer Paul Daniel, Conductor |
Author:
As an example of an opera singer putting his special gifts to the service of popular music‚ this is altogether one of the happiest I have come across. Indeed I don’t think I have ever heard these marvellous songs so consistently beautifully performed.
It helps‚ of course‚ that ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ was written for an operatic bassbaritone. Yet other numbers such as ‘Oh‚ what a beautiful morning’‚ so closely associated with Gordon MacRae‚ come across equally well. Terfel even performs those written for actors or female singers so convincingly as to make them completely his own. True‚ there is little attempt at a Cockney accent in ‘Get me to the church on time’; but I don’t suppose Terfel doing Stanley Holloway impressions would go down too well. Certainly there’s characterisation in the leadup to ‘On the street where you live’‚ and for the most part he gives us just the sort of vernacular‚ nonoperatic performances these numbers need. His command of pianissimo is used to marvellous effect‚ and the way the voice swells at ‘He is wonderful’ is quite thrilling. Sensitive conducting and authentic orchestrations play their full part in creating a totally absorbing effect.
The pity is that‚ after sustaining such an elevated standard for over 70 minutes‚ the mood is destroyed by ending with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas‚ a cheap gimmick that has nothing to do with what has gone before. That apart‚ this really is something wonderful.
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