An American Song Album / Melody & Bradley Moore

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Label
PENTATONE
Release Date
July 5, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      M. Moore, B. Moore
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 05, 2019
    • UPC
      827949077067
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186770
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. At Saint Patrick's Purgatory

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    2. No. 2. Church Bells at Night

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    3. No. 3. Saint Ita's Vision

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    4. No. 4. The Heavenly Banquet

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    5. No. 5. The Crucifixion

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    6. No. 6. Sea-Snatch

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    7. No. 7. Promiscuity

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    8. No. 8. The Monk and his Cat

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    9. No. 9. The Praises of God

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    10. No. 10. The Desire for Hermitage

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    11. No. 1. These Strangers

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    12. No. 2. In the Midst of Thousands

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    13. No. 3. I Did Not Speak Out

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    14. No. 4. To a Stranger

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    15. No. 1. Ample make this Bed

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    16. No. 2. The Sun kept setting

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    17. No. 1. He has kissed me

      Composer: Carlisle Floyd

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    18. No. 2. Gentleness

      Composer: Carlisle Floyd

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    19. No. 3. To my husband

      Composer: Carlisle Floyd

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    20. No. 4. At dawn

      Composer: Carlisle Floyd

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    21. No. 5. Rocking

      Composer: Carlisle Floyd

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    22. No. 1. Night

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    23. No. 2. A summer vacation

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    24. No. 3. My heart is in the East

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    25. No. 4. Alone

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    26. Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Kathy's Aria: Chips, darling, it's started (arr. for voice and piano)

      Composer: Gordon Getty

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    27. No. 1. Welcome Robin

      Composer: Gordon Getty

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    28. No. 2. Kind Old Man

      Composer: Gordon Getty

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    29. No. 3. All Through the Night

      Composer: Gordon Getty

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    30. Deep River (arr. G. Getty for voice and piano)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore

    31. Danny Boy (arr. G. Getty for voice and piano)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Melody Moore, Bradley Moore


An American Song Album is a fine collection of songs by American composers, presented by soprano Melody Moore. The repertoire includes Samuel Barber’s introspective Hermit Songs, Jake Heggie’s engaged cycles These Strangers and How Well I Knew the Light, Carlisle Floyd’s exploration of motherhood in The Mystery, Copland’s impressionist and oriental Four Early Songs, as well as a varied selection from Gordon Getty’s vocal works. Set to Irish, Welsh, Chilean, German, Arabic and Afro-American poetry, these pieces constitute a panorama of the US as a melting pot of cultures, while simultaneously being bound together by an unmistakably American sound. Melody Moore manages to lift out the poetry of these works with her warm, lyrical voice and impeccable vocal technique. She is accompanied on the piano by Bradley Moore, one of the most eminent conductors and song accompanists of today’s American musical scene. With her first solo album, Melody Moore continues her PENTATONE discography that already features recordings of leading roles in Gordon Getty’s Plump Jack (2012) and The Little Match Girl (2015), as well as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello (2017).

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REVIEWS:

Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a good place to start. She can thunder darkly, she can float, she can spin – she has the full expressive armoury. But, more importantly, the choices here plainly mean something to her and there’s no mistaking the high level of engagement that sets the best of them apart.

– Gramophone

The highlight of the disc for me is Carlisle Floyd’s The Mystery, subtitled “Five Songs of Motherhood.” Moore’s voice soars through this quite demanding cycle. Her clear high notes are produced without any sense of strain, and there are lovely floated pianissimos as well. She conveys the full breadth of feelings contained in The Mystery—passion, tenderness, elation, and love. Floyd’s 18-minute cycle is, in my view, a significant work that should have found a place of greater prominence in recitals by American singers. It might be seen as a modern American successor to Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben, and it would be interesting to pair the two on a program. Perhaps this exquisite recording will help rectify the situation.

– Fanfare