Episode 405. Rescue Mission (Belated Birthday Edition)
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Today’s episode is the latest installment in my series entitled “Rescue Mission,” which reintroduces great singers who have already been featured on the podcast. This is the Belated Birthday edition of that series, which reintroduces us to a wide range of Countermelody favorites, including jazz singer Ethel Ennis; baritones Robert Massard, Gérard Souzay, and Andrzej Hiolski; sopranos Sylvia Sass, Veronica Tyler, April Cantelo, Elly Ameling, Gloria Davy, Margaret Marshall, Sarah Reese, Ilse Wolf, and Carol Neblett; mezzo-sopranos Jennie Tourel, Maureen Lehane, and Shannon Bolin; and tenors David Rendall and Stuart Burrows. The repertoire is as varied and rare as are the artists featured, including songs by Rimsky-Korsakov, Chopin, Malcolm Williamson, and Alec Wilder; opera arias by Schreker, Mozart, and Verdi; and selections by Bach and Schütz. I love doing this kind of episode, because it allows me to cast my net wide and share with you the kinds of singers and repertoire that are bringing me comfort and joy in these trying times.
The link to my interview, just published, with Representative Andrew Grey (D-AK) on his East Anchorage Book Club podcast: https://repgray.com/podcast
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Gladys Shelley: Clown Town. Ethel Ennis, arranged and conducted by Dave Wolpe [1973]
Jacques Offenbach, Hector Crémieux, Étienne Tréfeu, Adolphe Jaime: J’arrive armé de pied en cap (Geneviève de Brabant). Robert Massard, Marcel Cariven, Orchestre et Choeur Lyrique de la RDF [live 28.I.1956]
Johann Sebastian Bach: Laß der Spötter Zungen schmähen (Wachet, betet, betet, wachet, BWV 70). Elly Ameling, Hermann Schroeder, Collegium musicum des WDR [radio recording, Köln 1967]
Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich folge dir gleichfalls (Johannes-Passion, BWV 245). Margaret Marshall, Klaus Martin Ziegler, Radiosinfonieorchester Stuttgart [live Stuttgart 1983]
Heinrich Schütz: Herzlich Lieb hab ich dich, o Herr, SWV 348 (Symphoniae Sacrae II). Maureen Lehane, Ensemble conducted by Helmuth Rilling [1966]
Richard Strauss, Karl Friedrich Henckell: Blindenklage, Op. 56/2. Ilse Wolf, Ernest Lush [1959]
Claude Debussy, Charles Baudelaire: Le jet d’eau (Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, L 64/3). Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin [1972]
Fryderyk Chopin, Adam Mickiewicz: Precz z moich oczu, Op. 74/6. Andrzej Hiolski, Sergiusz Nadgryzowski [1956]
Gioachino Rossini, Angelo Anelli: Contenta quest’alma (L’italiana in Algeri). David Rendall, unknown conductor, Orquestra Estable del Teatro Colón [live Buenos Aires 1989]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Emanuel Schikaneder: Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton (Die Zauberflöte). Stuart Burrows, Peter Maag, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus [live New York 23.XII.1972]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lorenzo da Ponte: In quali eccessi… Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata (Don Giovanni). Carol Neblett, John Pritchard, Orchestra of the Lyric Opera of Chicago [live 15.XI.1980]
Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci [after François Coppée]: Senti, bambino. Non cercar di colei (Zanetto). Rosanna Carteri, Antonino Votto, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano [live La Scala 10.V.55]
Franz Schreker: Fritz find’ ich nicht mehr (Die ferne Klang). Sylvia Sass, Gabriele Ferro, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice [live Venezia 30.IX.1984]
Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave [after Ángel de Saavedra]: Pace, pace, mio Dio (La forza del destino). Gloria Davy, Orchestra conducted by Fulvio Vernizzi [live Amsterdam 1962]
Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Ghislanzoni [after Auguste Mariette and Temistocle Solera]: Qui Radames verrà… O patria mia (Aida). Sarah Reese, Borislav Ivanov, National Grand Opera Orchestra [live Long Island 04.V.1991]
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Pushkin: A Flight of Passing Clouds [Редеет облаков], Op. 42/3. Jennie Tourel, Allen Rogers [1967]
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Apollon Maykov: Колыбельная песня [Cradle Song], Op. 16/1. Veronica Tyler, Charles Wadsworth [live Spoleto, ca. 1970]
Malcolm Williamson, Robert Louis Stevenson: My Bed Is a Boat (From a Child’s Garden, No. 8). April Cantelo, Malcolm Williamson [1972]
Alec Wilder, Morty Palitz, William Engvick: While We’re Young. Shannon Bolin, Milton Kaye [1978]
