Episode 90. Gone But Not Forgotten
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Christa Ludwig, celebrated two weeks ago, is not the only great singer and musician to have departed this earthly realm in recent months. This episode presents a wide cross-section of great musicians we have lost, not just singers, and not just classical musicians. Included are many opera singers who today are less well-known, including Sándor Sólyom Nagy, Libuše Domanínská, Margherita Roberti, Tamara Sorokina, Angelo Mori, Marcella Reale, Biserka Cvejić, and Michel Trempont. A wide range of composers including Ennio Morricone, Elias Rahbani, and Harold Budd, also receive a nod, as do instrumentalists Leon Fleisher, Osian Ellis, and Julian Bream, and non-classical artists such as Anne Feeney, Charley Pride, Gerry Marsden, Jimmie Rodgers, and SOPHIE. Only once before on the podcast have I presented such a kaleidoscopic memorial episode; it is good to be reminded of the full range of expression pursued by great musicians of all stripes. Guest stars today include Barbara Hendricks, Muriel Smith, and John Shirley-Quirk. The tributes continue next week.
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Ennio Morricone: Deborah’s Theme (Once upon a Time in America). Barbara Hendricks [live Polar Music Prize 2010]
Robert Schumann, Heinrich Heine: Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (Dichterliebe, Op. 48/12). Leon Fleisher, John Shirley-Quirk [1997]
Robert MacGimsey: Sweet Little Jesus Boy. Julian Bream, Muriel Smith [1955]
Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito: Deh, mi potevi scagliar (Otello). Vladislav Piavko, Yuri Simonov, USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra [live Moscow Tchaikovsky competition 1970]
Harold Budd: The Crystal Garden (Madrigals of the Rose Angel). Lynda Richardson, Margaret Cable, Lesley Reid, Ursula Connors, Alison Macgregor, Muriel Dickinson, Harold Budd, Maggie Thomas, Richard Bernas, Gavin Bryars, Jo Julian, Michael Nyman, John White, Howard Rees, Brian Eno [1978]
Dallas Frazier: There Goes My Everything. Charley Pride [live, unknown year]
Giuseppe Verdi, Franceso Maria Piave: O tu che in seno agli angeli (La forza del destino). Angelo Mori, Ino Savini [live Faenza 09.1968]
Zoltán Kodály, Móricz Zsigmond: Fáj a szívem [My heart is sore] (Négy dal [Four Songs], No. 4). Sándor Sólyom Nagy, Loránt Szücs [1975]
Gerry Marsden: Ferry cross the Mersey. Gerry and the Pacemakers [1964]
Elias Rahbani: Que sera ma vie. Pascale Sakr [2014]
Osian Ellis, Dylan Thomas: A Sunset Poem. Osian Ellis [1961]
Francesco Cilea, Arturo Colautti: Acerba voluttà (Adriana Lecouvreur). Biserka Cvejić [live 1963?]
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Yolanta’s Arioso (Yolanta). Tamara Sorokina, Mark Ermler, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater [1974]
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Giovacchino Forzano: Valzer delle Rose (La Reginetta delle Rose). Marcella Reale, Rudolf Alberth, Münchener Rundfunkorchester [1980]
Bob Merrill: Honeycomb. Jimmie Rodgers, Hugo Paretti and His Orchestra [1957]
Giuseppe Verdi, Temistocle Solera: Ah, sì, cada Fenena… Anch’io dischiuso un giorno (Nabucco). Margherita Roberti, Bruno Bartoletti, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino [live Firenze 10 July 1959]
Gaetano Donizetti, Domenico Gilardoni: Fa un cantabile a note trillanti (Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali). Michel Trempont, Alberto Zedda, Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne [live Lausanne 1988]
SOPHIE: It’s Okay to Cry [2017]
Bedřich Smetana, Josef Wenzig: Že citů mých pánem je bratr, ne on! [The one I love is his brother, not him!] (Libuše). Libuše Domanínská, Alois Klíma, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra [1966]
Anne Feeney: Have You Been to Jail for Justice? [2001]