Long Time Ago Adèle Charvet & Susan Manoff

• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990):
• 1 Old American Songs II: II. Zion's Walls 02:02
• 2 Old American Songs I: III. Long Time Ago 02:22
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958):
• 3 The House of Life: II. Silent Noon 03:42
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976):
• 4 Fish in the Unruffled Lakes: II. Night Covers up the Rigid Land 02:32
• 5 Four Cabaret Songs: III. Johnny 04:00
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981):
• 6 Despite and Still, Op.41: IV. Solitary Hotel 02:42
• Glen Roven (1958 - 2018):
• 7 The Santa Fe Songs: II. Listening to Jazz 01:53
• Jake Heggie (b. 1961):
• 8 Songs to the Moon I: V. The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky 01:46
• William Bolcom (b. 1938):
• 9 Cabaret Songs Vol.1: VI. Amor 03:11
• 10 Cabaret Songs Vol.1: IV. Waitin 01:45
• Benjamin Britten:
• 11 Four Cabaret Songs: II. Funeral Blues 02:16
• Aaron Copland:
• 12 Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson: V. Heart, We will Forget Him! 02:04
• Samuel Barber:
• 13 Hermit Songs, Op.29: X. The Desire for Hermitage 03:24
• Charles Ives (1874 - 1954):
• 14 114 Songs: XII. Remembrance 00:57
• Samuel Barber:
• 15 Four Songs, Op.13: IV. Nocturne 03:10
• Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956):
• 16 I Said to Love, Op.19b: III. Two Lips 01:05
• Samuel Barber:
• 17 Four Songs, Op.13: III. Sure on This Shining Night 02:23
• 18 Four Songs, Op.13: II. The Secrets of the Old 01:11
• Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977):
• 19 Song of a Nightclub Proprietress 02:45
• Jake Heggie:
• 20 Natural Selection: II. Animal Passion 03:18
• Charles Ives:
• 21 114 Songs: 108. Songs My Mother Taught Me 02:38
• Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953):
• 22 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op.12: I. Weep You No More 02:12
• Samuel Barber:
• 23 Old American Songs II: IV. At the River 02:48
• Total Runtime 56:06

Info for Long Time Ago

The young mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvet joins Alpha for several projects. In 2017 she received the Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy. While she has already attracted attention in the opera house, Adèle Charvet is also passionately interested in the song repertory. For her first album, she has devised a very personal programme, deriving in part from her musical partnership and friendship with the pianist Susan Manoff. Both of them have drawn on their New York childhoods: ‘Long Time Ago weaves together the threads of our lives’, says Susan. Adèle continues: ‘The musical journey is immense, from the central repertory of American music – Barber, Copland, Ives – to cabaret songs (Heggie, Bolcom), with a detour by way of England: Britten, Vaughan Williams... For example, Jake Heggie’s Amor describes the journey across the city of a faux-naïf sex maniac. The police, the ice cream vendor, the gospel choir all shout “AMOR!” when they see him. Samuel Barber’s Solitary Hotel is like an Edward Hopper painting in music; Aaron Copland’s At the River invites pilgrims to the church meeting: “Yes, we’ll gather at the river”...The programme unfolds like a wheel, a cycle that traverses the cardinal points of a life.’

Adele Charvet, mezzo-soprano
Susan Manoff, piano

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Booklet for Long Time Ago