Episode 352. Faboo Young Singers, Part Two
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This is the second part of an episode begun last week featuring the cream of the crop of today’s young artists. As with the performers heard last week, they represent the finest opera and classical singers working today; it is my distinct pleasure (and honor) to present them to you. They include sopranos Francesca Pia Vitale and Ewa Płonka; mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor; countertenors John Holiday, Key’mon Murrah, and Reginald Mobley; tenors Laurence Kilsby and Zachary Wilder; baritones Artur Ruciński and Theo Hoffman; and bass-baritones Philippe Sly, Joseph Parrish, and Georg Zeppenfeld in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Vivaldi to Rebecca Clarke, Hall Johnson, and Paul McCartney. It has been my pleasure to hear many of these singers live and I look forward to hearing them all again in person (and as soon as possible!)
RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE
Domènec Terradellas, Apostolo Zeno: Io qual mi vedi giovane… Dono d’amica sorte (La Merope). Francesca Pia Vitale, Francesco Corti, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [live Teatro Real Madrid 21.II.25]
György Kurtág, Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie [excerpt]. Philippe Sly, Simone Young, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper [live Wien 19.X.24]
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky [after Aleksandr Pushkin]: Kogda bi zhizn (Yevgeny Onegin). Artur Ruciński, Omer Meir Wellber, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo [live V.23]
Claudio Monteverdi: Quel sguardo sdegnosetto. Zachary Wilder, Marie-Domtille Murez, Thibaut Roussel, Thomas de Pierrefeu [France Musique program Basique, le classique, first broadcast 28.V.21]
Antonio Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630. Key’mon Murrah, John Austin Clark, Bourbon Baroque [live Louisville 26.VII.23]
Antonio Vivaldi: Ah, ch’infelice! (Cessate, omai cessate, RV 684). John Holiday, Academy of Ancient Music [video, filmed London V.19]
Franz Tunder: Salve mi Jesu. Reginald Mobley, Agave Baroque [2018]
Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni [after Carlo Gozzi]: In questa reggia (Turandot). Ewa Płonka, Craig Ketter [2021]
Gustav Mahler, folk text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn [collected and arranged by Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim]: Es sungen drei Engel. Beth Taylor, Julius Drake [livestream Leeds 11.IV.25]
Rebecca Clarke, John Masefield: The Seal Man. Laurence Kilsby, Ella O’Neill [2024]
Hall Johnson, Langston Hughes: Dusty Road. Joseph Parrish, Francesco Barfoed [live New York 25.III.25]
Paul McCartney, arr. Steven Blier: Here, There and Everywhere. Theo Hoffman, Steven Blier [2024]
Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig [after Ben Jonson]: Wie schön ist doch die Musik (Die schweigsame Frau). Georg Zeppenfeld, Kent Nagano, Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper [live München 30.VII.21]