The Faces of Love ~ The Songs of Jake Heggie / Fleming, McNair, Larmore, von Stade, Forand, Cao, Clayton, Vaness, Asawa
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Faces Of Love (Emily Dickinson): I Shall Not Live In Vain - Jake Heggie
- Eve-Song (Philip Littell): Even - Sylvia McNair
- Eve-Song (Philip Littell): Listen - Sylvia McNair
- Eve-Song (Philip Littell): Snake - Sylvia McNair
- Of Gods And Cats (Gavin Geoffrey Dillard): In The Beginning - Jennifer Larmore
- Of Gods And Cats (Gavin Geoffrey Dillard): Once Upon A Universe - Jennifer Larmore
- Paper Wings (Frederica von Stade): Bedtime Story - Frederica Von Stade
- Paper Wings (Frederica von Stade): Paper Wings - Frederica Von Stade
- Paper Wings (Frederica von Stade): Mitten Smitten - Frederica Von Stade
- A Route To The Sky - Frederica Von Stade
- Natural Selection (Gini Savage): Animal Passion - Jake Heggie
- Natural Selection (Gini Savage): Alas! Alack! - Jake Heggie
- Natural Selection (Gini Savage): Joy Alone (Connection) - Jake Heggie
- Before The Storm (Edna St. Vincent Millay): What Lips My Lips Have Kissed - Jake Heggie
- The Faces Of Love (Emily Dickinson): If You Were Coming In The Fall - Carol Vaness
- The Faces Of Love (Emily Dickinson): As Well As Jesus? - Carol Vaness
- The Faces Of Love (Emily Dickinson): It Makes No Difference Abroad - Carol Vaness
- Encountertenor (John Hall): Countertenor's Conundrum - Brian Asawa
- Encountertenor (John Hall): The Trouble With Trebles In Trousers... - Brian Asawa
- Dixie (Traditional) - Jennifer Larmore
- Songs To The Moon (Vachel Lindsay): Once More - To Gloriana - Frederica Von Stade
- Songs To The Moon (Vachel Lindsay): Euclid - Frederica Von Stade
- Songs To The Moon (Vachel Lindsay): The Haughty Snail King - Frederica Von Stade
- Songs To The Moon (Vachel Lindsay): What The Gray-Winged Fairy Said - Frederica Von Stade
- My True Love Hath My Heart (Sir Philip Sidney) - Frederica Von Stade
- Encore: Sophie's Song (Frederica von Stade) - Jennifer Larmore
Free Music Notes for The Faces of Love ~ The Songs of Jake Heggie / Fleming, McNair, Larmore, von Stade, Forand, Cao, Clayton, Vaness, Asawa
Free Music Review: A delight
Hit: 5 Stars
We first heard Jake Heggie in an interview on NPR and were intrigued enough to order this CD. It has been such a complete delight. His songs are wonderfully evocative and complex and somehow they manage to be just what you longed to hear. That a serious composer is writing such accessible and rewarding music is heartening beyond measure. If Amazon's review format would only allow a sixth or seventh star...
The Faces of Love ~ The Songs of Jake Heggie / Fleming, McNair, Larmore, von Stade, Forand, Cao, Clayton, Vaness, Asawa Poster
Don't be put off by the title, which sounds like the product of a marketing meeting. These are smart, fun, sexy, friendly musical settings of verse by (mostly) living poets by the composer of the forthcoming Dead Man Walking opera. Even better, there's not the slightest hint of these starry singers phoning in their performances en route to the airport. Everyone performs in excellent voice and with maximum commitment (Jennifer Larmore's English diction has never been better), and with good reason. Jake Heggie draws on all manners of compositional techniques--from expansive flights of polytonality to droll references to tango and other dance rhythms--but always at the service of his essentially lyrical musical personality, which can be vaguely described as updated Samuel Barber. Beyond writing well for the voice, Heggie gives the singers an unfettered emotional outlet and a range of theatrical moods, both in his choice of stylish, emotionally present verse and in his broad, clearly etched melodies that so easily accommodate coloring and nuance. As if that's not enough to inspire commitment from singers, Frederica von Stade doubles as poet in the cycle Paper Wings. Not all of this is great--Heggie sometimes resorts to generalized prettiness--but there hasn't been a more engaging vocal recital album all year. --David Patrick StearnsOpera & Vocal Music CDs
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