Episode 91. Unforgotten (In Memoriam II)
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We continue our memorial tributes this week with the second of (at least) three episodes commemorating the recent deaths of singers and musicians who have helped make our existence a little more manageable, our world a bit more beautiful. From Milva to Rudolf Kelterborn, from Yevgeny Nesterenko to Mary Wilson, from Jane Manning to Antoine Hodge, may they all rest in peace and power. Above all, this episode is dedicated to George Floyd on the first anniversary of his murder.
The two Countermelody episodes from a year ago devoted to music of protest and emancipation:
www.countermelodypodcast.com/episode-37-no-more-slavery-chains
www.countermelodypodcast.com/episode-38-something-in-the-air
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Bob Dylan: Blowin’ in the Wind. Odetta [1965]
Johann Strauss II, Ignaz Schnitzer after Mór Jókai: O habet acht (Der Zigeunerbaron). Maria Kouba [from German television series Zum blauen Bock, first broadcast 21 May 1967]
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II: Edelweiss (The Sound of Music). Christopher Plummer with interjections from Eleanor Parker and Richard Haydn [1965]
Stan Vincent: O-o-h Child. Mary Wilson [1989]
Chick Corea, Al Jarreau, Artie Maren: Spain (I Can Recall). Al Jarreau [1980]
Robert Wright, George Forrest: Swept Away (Kean). Joan Weldon, Alfred Drake, Orchestra conducted by Pembroke Davenport [1961]
Junior Cepeda: Quimbara. Johnny Pacheco, Celia Cruz [1974]
Liza Lehmann, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Music When Soft Voices Die. Neal Davies; Steuart Bedford [1997]
Giuseppe Verdi, Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle after Friedrich Schiller [Italian text by Achille de Lauzières]: Ella giammai m’amò (Don Carlo). Antoine Hodge, Orchestra conducted by Gregory Ortega [live New York 07 March 2020]
Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Romani: Cedi, deh, cedi… Sì, fino all’ore estreme (Norma). Lorenzo Anselmi, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, National Philharmonic Orchestra [ca. 1979]
Johann Strauss II. Karl Haffner, Richard Genée, after Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy [English version by David Pountney, Leonard Hancock]: Watch Duet (Die Fledermaus). Robert Gard, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra [live Sydney 10 July 1982]
Dmitri Shostakovich, Abram Efros after Michelangelo Buonarroti: Разлука [Departure] (Suite on Verses by Michelangelo, Op. 145a/4) Yevgeny Nesterenko, Maxim Shostakovich, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [from 1976 telecast]
Rudolf Kelterborn, Erika Burkart: Lichtmusik II: Sonnenaufgang (Ensemble-Buch I). Kurt Widmer, Jürg Wyttenbach, Ensemble der IGNM Basel [1991]
Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Blok: Город спит [The City Sleeps] (Seven Poems by Alexander Blok, Op. 127/4). Mary Ellen Pracht, The Nieuw Amsterdam Trio (Edith Mocsanyi, John Pintavalle, Heinrich Joachim) [1972]
Jacques Offenbach: Scintille, diamant (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). Theodore Lambrinos, Robert L. Larsen, Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra [1989]
Traditional Irish, arr. Frederick Weatherly: Danny Boy. Veronica Dunne, Havelock Nelson [1968]
Jim Steinman, G. Dénes György [Hungarian text]: Nézz körül [Total Eclipse of the Heart]. Sylvia Sass [1985]
Anthony Payne, Alfred Lord Tennyson: Nothing Will Die (from The World’s Winter). Jane Manning, Lionel Friend, The Nash Ensemble [1977]
Roebuck Staples: Freedom Highway. The Staples Singers (Roebuck, Cleotha, Pervis, and Mavis Staples) [1965]
Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave: Madre, pietosa Vergine (La forza del destino) [sung in English]. Pauline Tinsley, Bryan Balkwill, Orchestra of the Sadler’s Wells Opera Company [live December 1968]
Astor Piazzolla, Mario Trejo: Los pájaros perdidos. Milva, Astor Piazzolla [live Paris, Bouffes du Nord 29 September 1984]
Traditional Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan: Were You There. Antoine Hodges, Ryan Jackson [recorded remotely for Good Friday Service 2020 at First Avenue Presbyterian Church, NYC]
