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Dance With Me / Hannigan, Ludwig Orchestra
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Dance With Me / Hannigan, Ludwig Orchestra

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Details

Composer
Various
Artist
Barbara Hannigan, Lucienne Renaudin-Vary
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Mar 11, 2022
Catalog #
ALPHA790
UPC
3760014197901

About

This album celebrates dance music, from waltz to tango, from slow foxtrot to quickstep, from samba to jive. Seventy years of music rooted in the 1920s, assembled by the enthusiastic musicians of the Ludwig Orchestra, who have taken to playing them at festivals, alongside their usual programs devoted to Stravinsky or Schoenberg, to get the audience dancing – a phenomenal success story that now becomes an album, Dance with me!

For this project, the Ludwig musicians naturally turned to a partner dear to their hearts, Barbara Hannigan, with whom they recorded Crazy Girl Crazy (Alpha 293), which received a Grammy Award in 2018, in collaboration with composer-arranger Bill Elliott. The trio has reformed here: ‘I was thrilled to go back to this aspect of my musical roots, to reawaken special memories of singing and playing keyboards with a dance band in Nova Scotia’, says Barbara Hannigan. ‘Couples were smiling and dancing to tunes like Moonlight Serenade and In the Mood with a few polkas thrown in towards the end of the evening.’ The Canadian soprano performs four songs, including "I could have danced all night," "Moonlight Serenade," and Kurt Weill’s famous and moving "Youkali."

More musicians round out the guest-list for the party – the trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin-Vary and the Berlage Saxophone Quartet. Dance with me: an invitation to feel happy and light-hearted, quite an achievement these days . . .

REVIEW:

The tautness of the Ludwig Orchestra’s playing – augmented in four dances by the Berlage Saxophone Quartet – echoes that of the best bands of the big band era, and the arrangements are not only effective but cleverly detailed.

-- Gramophone

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Moonlight Serenade 04:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    Moonlight Serenade
    Duration
    04:10
    Composer
    Glenn Miller
    Performer
    Barbara Hannigan
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  2. 2 Sway 03:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    Sway
    Duration
    03:48
    Composer
    Pablo Beltrán Ruiz, Norman Gimbel
    Ensemble
    Berlage Saxophone Quartet, Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  3. 3 Youkali (arr. B. Elliott for voice and orchestra) 05:46
    Track
    3
    Title
    Youkali (arr. B. Elliott for voice and orchestra)
    Duration
    05:46
    Composer
    Kurt Weill
    Performer
    Barbara Hannigan
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  4. 4 Copacabana 03:46
    Track
    4
    Title
    Copacabana
    Duration
    03:46
    Composer
    Jack Feldman, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman
    Performer
    Lucienne Renaudin Vary
    Ensemble
    Berlage Saxophone Quartet
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  5. 5 Fluffy Ruffles 02:46
    Track
    5
    Title
    Fluffy Ruffles
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    George Hamilton Green
    Performer
    Barbara Hannigan
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  6. 6 Je veux t'aimer 04:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    Je veux t'aimer
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Robert Stolz
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  7. 7 Whispering 03:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    Whispering
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    John Schonberger
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  8. 8 My Shawl 04:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    My Shawl
    Duration
    04:33
    Composer
    Xavier Cugat
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  9. 9 My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced All Night (arr. B. Elliott for voice and orchestra) 02:58
    Track
    9
    Title
    My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced All Night (arr. B. Elliott for voice and orchestra)
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Frederick Loewe
    Performer
    Barbara Hannigan
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  10. 10 In the Mood 03:35
    Track
    10
    Title
    In the Mood
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Wingy Manone, Joe Garland, Andy Razaf
    Ensemble
    Berlage Saxophone Quartet
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  11. 11 Lambada 03:49
    Track
    11
    Title
    Lambada
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Gonzalo Hermosa, Ulisses Hermosa
    Ensemble
    Berlage Saxophone Quartet
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan
  12. 12 Salut d'amour (Liebesgrüss), Op. 12 (arr. L. Windsperger) 03:36
    Track
    12
    Title
    Salut d'amour (Liebesgrüss), Op. 12 (arr. L. Windsperger)
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Ludwig Orchestra
    Conductor
    Barbara Hannigan