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Rorem: Selected Songs / Carole Farley
Naxos

Rorem: Selected Songs / Carole Farley

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Details

Composer
ROREM
Artist
Ned, Carole, Rorem, Eleanor, Farley, Buchan
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Nov 01, 2001
Catalog #
8559084
UPC
636943908426

About

REVIEWS:

Carole Farley, whose range is as impressive in stylistic as in purely vocal terms, shows herself here to be an ideal interpreter for Rorem, and his playing responds with hand-in-glove precision and sympathy. The voice itself, at once tensile-strong and appealingly vulnerable, seems in splendid condition.

-- Bernard Jacobson, Fanfare

The CD's first nine tracks, settings of Theodore Roethke, fairly represent the Rorem approach - conservative, elegantly crafted, subtle and flexible in expressive range. Song No. 1, "The Waking," shows his fondness, akin to that of Satie and Poulenc, for setting each syllable to a single note value, but by the second track, 'Root Cellar,' he has yielded to the occasional temptation to assign two notes to one syllable. 'Orchids' shows a pictorial gift, with music as limp as the plants described. There's Ivesian humor in 'The Serpent,' even a twisty melisma in 'Snake.'

The sequence of what follows, chosen for variety, should have something for everyone, and everything for some. Most of the songs are short, never gilding the lily. Gertrude Stein's 'I am Rose' gets just a few bars. But with a longer piece, such as Elizabeth Bishop's 'Visit to St. Elizabeth's,' the composer performs the feat of stretching out a fast tempo. Rorem finds rare magic in the monotone second verse of Tennyson's 'Ask me no more,' and broad, big-boned music in 'Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night,' first of a closing group of five devoted to Walt Whitman. Especially in the first three of these, Rorem's own poetry rises to meet Whitman's, and the cause of the American art song has been ratcheted up a peg."

-- John W Freeman, Opera News

Tracklist 32 tracks

  1. 1 The Waking 02:44
    Track
    1
    Title
    The Waking
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  2. 2 Root Cellar 02:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    Root Cellar
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  3. 3 My Papa's Waltz 01:21
    Track
    3
    Title
    My Papa's Waltz
    Duration
    01:21
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  4. 4 I Strolled Across an Open Field 01:12
    Track
    4
    Title
    I Strolled Across an Open Field
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  5. 5 Memory 01:06
    Track
    5
    Title
    Memory
    Duration
    01:06
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  6. 6 Orchids 01:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    Orchids
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  7. 7 The Serpent 01:56
    Track
    7
    Title
    The Serpent
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  8. 8 Night Crow 01:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    Night Crow
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  9. 9 Snake 00:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    Snake
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  10. 10 Little Elegy 01:24
    Track
    10
    Title
    Little Elegy
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  11. 11 The Nightingale 01:11
    Track
    11
    Title
    The Nightingale
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Eleanor Buchan, Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  12. 12 Nantucket 01:12
    Track
    12
    Title
    Nantucket
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  13. 13 Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain 02:01
    Track
    13
    Title
    Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  14. 14 Love in a Life 03:29
    Track
    14
    Title
    Love in a Life
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  15. 15 What if Some Little Pain... 01:47
    Track
    15
    Title
    What if Some Little Pain...
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  16. 16 Visits to St. Elizabeth's 03:31
    Track
    16
    Title
    Visits to St. Elizabeth's
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  17. 17 Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 01:43
    Track
    17
    Title
    Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  18. 18 Spring 01:50
    Track
    18
    Title
    Spring
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  19. 19 See How They Love Me 01:38
    Track
    19
    Title
    See How They Love Me
    Duration
    01:38
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  20. 20 Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 02:51
    Track
    20
    Title
    Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  21. 21 I am Rose 00:21
    Track
    21
    Title
    I am Rose
    Duration
    00:21
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  22. 22 Ask Me No More 02:56
    Track
    22
    Title
    Ask Me No More
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  23. 23 Far-Far-Away 01:46
    Track
    23
    Title
    Far-Far-Away
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  24. 24 Early in the Morning 01:35
    Track
    24
    Title
    Early in the Morning
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  25. 25 Alleluia 02:22
    Track
    25
    Title
    Alleluia
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  26. 26 Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold 02:11
    Track
    26
    Title
    Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  27. 27 Sally's Smile 00:48
    Track
    27
    Title
    Sally's Smile
    Duration
    00:48
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  28. 28 Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night 02:04
    Track
    28
    Title
    Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  29. 29 O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 00:25
    Track
    29
    Title
    O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
    Duration
    00:25
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  30. 30 Full of Life Now 01:46
    Track
    30
    Title
    Full of Life Now
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  31. 31 As Adam Early in the Morning 01:24
    Track
    31
    Title
    As Adam Early in the Morning
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem
  32. 32 Are You the New Person? 02:31
    Track
    32
    Title
    Are You the New Person?
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Ned Rorem
    Performer
    Carole Farley, Ned Rorem