In Concert / Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

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Sony Masterworks
Release Date
June 21, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      Battle & Rampal
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 21, 2011
    • UPC
      074645310626
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SONY 53106
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Nel dolce dell'oblio, HWV 134

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    2. L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: Part I: Aria: Sweet bird

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    3. If music be the food of love, Z. 379

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    4. Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z. 587: There's not a swain on the plain

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    5. What Can We Poor Females Do?, Z. 518

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    6. Oedipus, King of Thebes, Z. 583: Music for a While

      Composer: Henry Purcell

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    7. Hippolyte et Aricie, Act V: Rossignols amoureux

      Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    8. Une flute invisible

      Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    9. No. 1. Rossignol, mon mignon

      Composer: Albert Roussel

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    10. No. 2. Ciel, aer et vens

      Composer: Albert Roussel

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    11. No. 4. La mi sola, Laureola

      Composer: Fernando Obradors

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    12. No. 2. Al amor

      Composer: Fernando Obradors

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    13. No. 5. Del cabello mas sutil

      Composer: Fernando Obradors

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    14. No. 6. Chiquitita la novia

      Composer: Fernando Obradors

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    15. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Rampal

    16. II. Adagio

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Rampal

    17. III. Allegro poco moderato

      Composer: Bohuslav Martinů

      Performer: Jean-Pierre Rampal

    18. Bird-song

      Composer: Michael Head

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal

    19. Lo, Here the Gentle Lark

      Composer: Henry Bishop

      Performer: Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal


'With flute obbligato': it used to be a regular feature of concerts and recordings by the great madames of old. If their programmes had been as enterprising as this one, they would not have provoked so readily, if unwittingly, the odious term 'canary-fancier'... The bell-like purity of [Battle's] voice is delightful in itself... Her fluency and evenness, her free production of perfectly steady tone, are all admirable and none too common in the world today (but then, she is generally acknowledged to be one of the leading singers in that world). She is also highly skilled in making effective use of her naturally limited power, as, for instance, when she fills out the tone towards the end of "Sweet Bird" or repeats the words "can you be" in "There's not a swain". The enervated droop of some high sopranos is not for her, and she can turn from mere pleasantness to gaiety, as in some of the Spanish songs...

Among the songs, Roussel's settings of Ronsard for voice and flute without accompaniment make a strong impression: fine two-part writing and perfect for the occasion. Several others are remarkably happy 'finds', including the Bird-song of Michael Head. But musical interest centres on Martinu's Flute Sonata, a marvellous work... Written in a week at Cape Cod in 1945, it has inexhaustible vitality: apparently simple (but never commonplace), and sometimes dizzyingly intricate and diverse in form and reference...

-- Gramophone [9/1994]