Rorem: Selected Songs / Carole Farley

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 1, 2001
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ROREM
    • PERFORMER
      Ned, Carole, Rorem, Eleanor, Farley, Buchan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2001
    • UPC
      636943908426
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559084
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical Vocals
    Works ⌄

    1. The Waking

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    2. Root Cellar

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    3. My Papa's Waltz

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    4. I Strolled Across an Open Field

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    5. Memory

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    6. Orchids

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    7. The Serpent

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    8. Night Crow

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    9. Snake

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    10. Little Elegy

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    11. The Nightingale

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Eleanor Buchan, Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    12. Nantucket

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    13. Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    14. Love in a Life

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    15. What if Some Little Pain...

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    16. Visits to St. Elizabeth's

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    17. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    18. Spring

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    19. See How They Love Me

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    20. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    21. I am Rose

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    22. Ask Me No More

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    23. Far-Far-Away

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    24. Early in the Morning

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    25. Alleluia

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    26. Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    27. Sally's Smile

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    28. Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    29. O You Whom I Often and Silently Come

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    30. Full of Life Now

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    31. As Adam Early in the Morning

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem

    32. Are You the New Person?

      Composer: Ned Rorem

      Performer: Carole Farley, Ned Rorem


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