Long Time Ago / Charvet, Manoff

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Alpha
Release Date
November 8, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Manoff, Charvet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 08, 2019
    • UPC
      3760014195563
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA556
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Old American Songs II: Zion's Walls

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    2. Old American Songs I: No. 3. Long Time Ago

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    3. The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    4. Fish in the Unruffled Lakes: No. 2. Night covers up the rigid land

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    5. Johnny: Johnny

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    6. Despite and Still, Op. 41: No. 4. Solitary Hotel

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    7. The Santa Fe Songs: No. 2. Listening to Jazz Now

      Composer: Glen Roven

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    8. Songs to the Moon: No. 5. The Moon’s the North Wind's Cooky (What the Little Girl Said)

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    9. No. 6. Amour

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    10. No. 4. Waitin

      Composer: William Bolcom

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    11. Johnny: Funeral blues

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    12. 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 5. Heart, We Will Forget Him

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    13. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 10. The Desire for Hermitage

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    14. Remembrance

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    15. 4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 4. Nocturne

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    16. I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 3. Two Lips

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    17. No. 3. Sure on this shining night

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    18. No. 2. The secrets of the old

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    19. Song of a Nightclub Proprietress

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    20. Natural Selection: I. Animal Passion

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    21. Songs My Mother Taught Me

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    22. 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1. Weep You No More

      Composer: Roger Quilter

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff

    23. Old American Songs II: At the River

      Composer: Aaron Copland

      Performer: Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff


The young mezzo-soprano Adele Charvet has joined Alpha for several upcoming projects. In 2017 she received the Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy. While she has already attracted attention in the opera house, Adele Charvet is also passionately interested in the song repertory. For her first album, she has devised a very personal programme, deriving in part from her musical partnership and friendship with the pianist Susan Manoff. Both of them have drawn on their New York childhoods: ‘Long Time Ago weaves together the threads of our lives’, says Susan. Adele continues: ‘The musical journey is immense, from the central repertory of American music – Barber, Copland, Ives – to cabaret songs (Heggie, Bolcom), with a detour by way of England: Britten, Vaughan Williams . . . For example, Jake Heggie’s Amor describes the journey across the city of a faux-naïf sex maniac. The police, the ice cream vendor, the gospel choir all shout “AMOR!” when they see him. Samuel Barber’s Solitary Hotel is like an Edward Hopper painting in music; Aaron Copland’s At the River invites pilgrims to the church meeting: “Yes, we’ll gather at the river”... The programme unfolds like a wheel, a cycle that traverses the cardinal points of a life.’