Victoria Clark - Fifteen Seconds of Grace
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Artist: Victoria ClarkEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: PS Classics
Soundtracks:
- How Can I Keep From Singing? 2. Right as the Rain 3. Thomas 4. Something s Gotta Give 5. Life Is But a Dream 6. I Got Lost in His Arms 7. Someone to Cook For 8. Departure 9. 15 Seconds of Grace 10. The Red Dress 11. Before the Parade Passes By 12. It Might Be You - Victoria Clark
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Free Music Review: 50 Minutes of Grace
Hit: 5 Stars
Broadway star Victoria Clark's debut CD "Fifteen Seconds of Grace" is both a surprise and a revelation. Rather than go the oft-tread route of mining the broadway repetoire with full orchestra backing, Ms. Clark chose an ecclectic array of contemporary art songs, originals and a few esoteric, rarely recorded Broadway gems. She performs these with the gentle backing of a sparse ensemble perfectly suited to her well-phrased, pitch perfect and resonantly graceful voice. Ms. Clark's interpretive skills are on full display here, and she neither gives in to vocal showmanship (Lord knows, she could) nor mannered interpretations. She lets the lyrics speak for themselves.
"Thomas", a beautiful song she begins a capella, is the prime cut here, a gourgeous piece of longing and heartache where her gentle singing fully conveys the beauty and pain of love. Other stand-outs include the haunting "How Can I keep From Singing", her jazzy New Orleans inflected take on "Someone to Cook For" and a trio of rarely recorded Broadway classics: "Right as the Rain", "I Got Lost in His Arms", and a new take on "Before the Parade Passes By" that is both winsome and galvanizing and rivals Streisand's version. These are performed with spare arrangements that emphasize melody and lyric, and Ms. Clark does not disappoint. The one blight on the recording is "It Might Be You" from the film "Tootsie". Her performance is flawless but the material is beneath her and doesn't deserve to be in the same company as these other classics.
Auspicious is an overused word in reviews, but this utterly unexpected recording says that Victoria Clark is an artist to be reckoned with. She proved it on Broadway. Now she's made a vast leap into the recording field with hopefully many more recordings to come. Masterful.
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