Pure Diva: Tribute to Joan Hammond
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Label: Melba
Cat No: MR301129
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th September 2011
Contents
Works
Home, Sweet HomeThe Green Hills o' Somerset
Rusalka, op.114
Eugene Onegin, op.24
Don Carlo
Artists
Cheryl Barker (soprano)Timothy Young (piano)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Guillaume TourniaireWorks
Home, Sweet HomeThe Green Hills o' Somerset
Rusalka, op.114
Eugene Onegin, op.24
Don Carlo
Artists
Cheryl Barker (soprano)Timothy Young (piano)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Guillaume TourniaireAbout
The orchestral scenes are high drama from the first note to the last reverberation. Cheryl’s glorious lyric soprano rides the wave of Guillaume Tourniaire’s orchestral texture in grand operatic scenes, arias and songs made famous by Hammond. Cheryl’s visceral portrayals of these operatic heroines convey the full emotional depth of these multi-dimensional characters in extremis.
The tributes with piano accompaniment (by Timothy Young) provide a contrast to the preceding drama, encore pieces beloved of Joan Hammond, the biggest selling recording artist during the war. Her recording of The Green Hills o’ Somerset became a best seller and Cheryl includes it as a homage here. The delightful rarity Shadows is a song written for Hammond by the Australian composer Ronald Settle.
Illuminating CD notes are by the late and great vocal commentator John Steane who was an insightful witness to Dame Joan Hammond (1912-96) and all the great singers of her era and those that followed.
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