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Long Time Ago / Charvet, Manoff
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Long Time Ago / Charvet, Manoff

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Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Manoff, Charvet
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Nov 08, 2019
Catalog #
ALPHA556
UPC
3760014195563

About

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.’

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 Old American Songs II: Zion's Walls 02:02
    Track
    1
    Title
    Old American Songs II: Zion's Walls
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  2. 2 Old American Songs I: No. 3. Long Time Ago 02:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    Old American Songs I: No. 3. Long Time Ago
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  3. 3 The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon 03:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  4. 4 Fish in the Unruffled Lakes: No. 2. Night covers up the rigid land 02:32
    Track
    4
    Title
    Fish in the Unruffled Lakes: No. 2. Night covers up the rigid land
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  5. 5 Johnny: Johnny 04:00
    Track
    5
    Title
    Johnny: Johnny
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  6. 6 Despite and Still, Op. 41: No. 4. Solitary Hotel 02:42
    Track
    6
    Title
    Despite and Still, Op. 41: No. 4. Solitary Hotel
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Samuel Barber
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  7. 7 The Santa Fe Songs: No. 2. Listening to Jazz Now 01:53
    Track
    7
    Title
    The Santa Fe Songs: No. 2. Listening to Jazz Now
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Glen Roven
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  8. 8 Songs to the Moon: No. 5. The Moon’s the North Wind's Cooky (What the Little Girl Said) 01:46
    Track
    8
    Title
    Songs to the Moon: No. 5. The Moon’s the North Wind's Cooky (What the Little Girl Said)
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Jake Heggie
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  9. 9 No. 6. Amour 03:11
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 6. Amour
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    William Bolcom
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  10. 10 No. 4. Waitin 01:45
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Waitin
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    William Bolcom
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  11. 11 Johnny: Funeral blues 02:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    Johnny: Funeral blues
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  12. 12 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 5. Heart, We Will Forget Him 02:04
    Track
    12
    Title
    12 Poems of Emily Dickinson: No. 5. Heart, We Will Forget Him
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  13. 13 Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 10. The Desire for Hermitage 03:24
    Track
    13
    Title
    Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 10. The Desire for Hermitage
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Samuel Barber
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  14. 14 Remembrance 00:57
    Track
    14
    Title
    Remembrance
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  15. 15 4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 4. Nocturne 03:10
    Track
    15
    Title
    4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 4. Nocturne
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Samuel Barber
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  16. 16 I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 3. Two Lips 01:05
    Track
    16
    Title
    I Said to Love, Op. 19b: No. 3. Two Lips
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  17. 17 No. 3. Sure on this shining night 02:23
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 3. Sure on this shining night
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Samuel Barber
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  18. 18 No. 2. The secrets of the old 01:11
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 2. The secrets of the old
    Duration
    01:11
    Composer
    Samuel Barber
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  19. 19 Song of a Nightclub Proprietress 02:45
    Track
    19
    Title
    Song of a Nightclub Proprietress
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Madeleine Dring
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  20. 20 Natural Selection: I. Animal Passion 03:18
    Track
    20
    Title
    Natural Selection: I. Animal Passion
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Jake Heggie
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  21. 21 Songs My Mother Taught Me 02:38
    Track
    21
    Title
    Songs My Mother Taught Me
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  22. 22 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1. Weep You No More 02:12
    Track
    22
    Title
    7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1. Weep You No More
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Roger Quilter
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff
  23. 23 Old American Songs II: At the River 02:48
    Track
    23
    Title
    Old American Songs II: At the River
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Aaron Copland
    Performer
    Adèle Charvet, Susan Manoff