The Faces Of Love - The Songs Of Jake Heggie

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
September 14, 1999
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HEGGIE, JAKE
    • PERFORMER
      Fleming Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 14, 1999
    • UPC
      090266348428
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      09026634842
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical Vocals
    Works ⌄

    1. The Faces of Love: I shall not live in vain

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Renée Fleming, Jake Heggie

    2. No. 2. Even

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Sylvia McNair, Jake Heggie

    3. No. 4. Listen

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Sylvia McNair, Jake Heggie

    4. No. 5. Snake

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Sylvia McNair, Jake Heggie

    5. No. 1. In the Beginning

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Jennifer Larmore, Jake Heggie

    6. No. 2. Once Upon a Universe

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Jennifer Larmore, Jake Heggie

    7. No. 1. Bedtime Story

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    8. No. 2. Paper Wings

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    9. No. 3. Mitten Smitten

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    10. No. 4. A Route to the Sky

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    11. No. 2. Animal Passion

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Nicolle Folland, Jake Heggie

    12. No. 3. Alas! Alack!

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Nicolle Folland, Jake Heggie

    13. No. 5. Joy Alone (Connection)

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Nicolle Folland, Jake Heggie

    14. Before the Storm: No. 3. What lips my lips have kissed

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Cao Zheng, Emil Miland, Jake Heggie

    15. If you were coming in the fall

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Kristin Clayton, Jake Heggie

    16. As Well As Jesus?

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Carol Vaness, Jake Heggie

    17. From Emily's Garden: No. 4. It makes no difference abroad

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Carol Vaness, Jake Heggie

    18. No. 1. Countertenor's Conundrum

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Brian Asawa, Jake Heggie

    19. No. 2. The trouble with trebles in trousers … (Pitch can be a bitch!)

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Brian Asawa, Jake Heggie

    20. Dixie

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Jennifer Larmore, Jake Heggie

    21. No. 1. Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    22. No. 2. Euclid

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    23. No. 3. The Haughty Snail-King

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    24. No. 7. What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Frederica von Stade, Jake Heggie

    25. My True Love Hath My Heart (version for soprano, mezzo-soprano, cello and piano)

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Sylvia McNair, Frederica von Stade, Emil Miland, Jake Heggie

    26. Sophie's Song

      Composer: Jake Heggie

      Performer: Jennifer Larmore, Jake Heggie


Listen to only the first track of this recording, a heart-wrenching setting of Emily Dickinson's poem "I shall not live in vain" sung by Renée Fleming, and be immediately convinced that this compilation by Jake Heggie is a must for any lover of song. THE FACES OF LOVE testifies to Heggie's nimble sensitivity in setting words to music, as he draws from a wide range of poetry, while always seeming to find the most unforced and compelling means to make these lyrics sing.
As the San Francisco Opera's first CHASE Composer-in-Residence, Heggie has had the benefit of forming professional relationships with some of the world's greatest singers, a number of whom appear on this disk in songs written expressly for them. This intimate knowledge of individual voices and personalities has enabled Heggie to write unusually idiomatic vocal music for such distinctive singers as Fleming, Carol Vaness, Frederica von Stade, and Jennifer Larmore--the four most thoughtful collaborators on this disk.
REVIEWS:
Newsday (4/30/00, p.26) - "...The disc, which is an impressive calling card, makes it clear what these singers respond to...[Heggie's] melodies play out in floating, sometimes startling movements, like a breeze-tossed kite...Heggie can also be a delightful colorist, possessed of a natural, elegant eloquence..."