Album description
2 audio discs : digital ; 12 cm.Vox Box : CDX 5126.
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, Apr. 19, 1970.
Previously released on analog discs as: Jennie Tourel at Alice Tully Hall (Desto: DC7118--DC7119, 1971).
Analog recording.
Program notes and English song texts (11 pages), inserted.
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
Reviews
- 1. The ripe art of Jennie Tourel, Saturday Review, Dec. 25, 1971.
- 2. Bass Sound Post, vol. 3 #1-6, 1971, p. 27.
Performers
| 1. | Karr, Gary, 1941- |
| 2. | Levine, James, 1943-2021 |
| 3. | Tourel, Jennie, 1900-1973 |