Kate Royal

Kate Royal

Kate Royal
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Composer: Leo Delibes
Composer: Richard Strauss
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Edward Gardner
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Performer: Kate Royal
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Lia's Aria ('The Prodigal Son')
  2. The Maids Of Cadiz (Spanish Song)
  3. Bailero
  4. Unhappy He Who Has a Wife
  5. The Forsaken Girl
  6. Vocalise En Forme De Habanera
  7. Anne Trulove's Aria: No Word From Tom
  8. Anne Trulove's Aria: My Father! Can I Desert Him
  9. Anne Trulove's Aria: I Go, I Go To Him
  10. In Trutina
  11. Lullaby
  12. I Wanted To Make a Bouquet
  13. Tomorrow
  14. Laments, Or the Maiden And the Nightingale
  15. I: What Can I Use To Wash My Face With?
  16. II: You Killed Me
  17. III: Where Have You Been, My Love?
  18. IV: I've Come From the Poplars, Mother
  19. The Sprig Of Thyme

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Free Music Review: Going out on a limb....Kate Royal is on the way up!
Hit: 5 Stars

Having first heard Kate Royal on the DVD 'Tocar y Luchar', a superb visual and aural examination of the success of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, on which she was heard in excerpts from the Mahler Symphony No. 2, this listener's ears perked up: who is this young, beautiful soprano who can float the Mahler lines so effortlessly and eloquently? Finding that the voice belonged to one Kate Royal ended in discovering this recording. Despite the learned comments from the other reviewers it seems that this is a young (27 years) talent who is both in possession of a well trained and enormously beautiful voice, but also an artist of intelligence and dedication to her craft.

The program selected for a debut recording at an early stage in her career is reassuring. No rehash of popular arias that guarantee sales of a CD here, but instead a collection of lesser known, exquisitely lovely and disparate works by a broad range of composers. Yes the voice is young, and right decisions regarding repertoire are being obeyed, and yet Kate Royal is hardly a routineer. Her delivery of three selections from Canteloube's 'Chants d'Auvergne' (especially the 'Baïlèro') has not only the precision of pitch and the elegance of the poetry, but also the earthy sensual sound these songs require. Other highlights for this listener are the Ravel 'Vocalise en forme de habanera' (instead of, say, the overly familiar Rachmaninov 'Vocalise'), the utter ease of delivery and mastery of range she manages with the Anne Trulove selections from Stravinsky's 'The Rake's Progress', the breathtakingly beautiful Granados 'Quejas, o la maja y el Ruiseñor ' from his 'Goyescas', and the radiance she introduces in a too small sampling of the songs of Richard Strauss.

In short, for this listener, yet to witness Kate Royal live on the concert or opera stage, here is an eloquent, intelligent, intensely musical soprano who is comfortable with the coloratura pyrotechniques, but settles them in with a vocal color that is rich, at times appropriately dark, and always beautiful. She is accompanied by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Edward Gardner conducting. She is assuredly a talent to watch. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January 08
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