Album description
2 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 r/min, stereo. ; 30 cm.Desto : DC 7118-9.
Songs and opera excerpts for mezzo soprano and piano with double bass (10th-14th works)
Sung in Italian, French, German and Russian.
Jennie Tourel, mezzo soprano ; James Levine, piano ; Gary Karr, double bass (10th-14th works).
Recorded at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, April 19, 1970.
Program notes and English song texts ([4] pages), laid in container.
Contents: Per Pietà / Stradella -- La sagesse est un tresor / Monsigny -- An die Hoffnung ; Ich liebe dich / Beethoven -- Trois chansons de Bilitis : La flûte de Pan ; La chevelure ; Le tombeau des naïades / Debussy -- Mignon's lied ; Vergiftet sind meine lieder ; Über allen gipfeln ist ruh' ; Comment disaient-ils / Liszt -- Doubt ; Vain temptation / Glinka -- None but the lonely heart / Tchaikovsky -- Romance / Dargomijsky [i.e. Tchaikovsky] -- Elegy / Massenet -- Encores : Absence / Berlioz -- Laughing song from La perichole / Offenbach -- Si mes vers / R. Hahn -- O, quand je dors / Liszt -- Le barbe bleu / Offenbach.
I. Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich, 1804-1857. Somnenie; arranged
II. Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich, 1804-1857. Ne iskushaĭ meni͡a bez nuzhdy (Duet); arranged
III. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Romansy, op. 6. Net, tol’ko tot, kto znal; arranged
IV. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Romansy, op. 60. IA tebe nichego ne skazhu; arranged
V. Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912. Elegies, medium voice, cello, piano; arranged
See also: Karr, G. Live at Alice Tully Hall (Vox Box: CDX 5126, p1995).
Reviews
- 1. High Fidelity, 12-1971, p. 115 (1971).
- 2. New York Times, 9-22-1974, p. D32 (1974).
- 3. Bass Sound Post, 3-1/6, 1971, p. 27: The ripe art of Jennie Tourel (reprint from Saturday Review., December 25, 1971).
- 4. Records in review, 1972, p. 454.
Performers
| 1. | Tourel, Jennie, 1900-1973 |
| 2. | Levine, James, 1943-2021 |
| 3. | Karr, Gary, 1941- |