Cheap Clara Butt: The Acoustic Years (Music) (Kennerley Rumford, Anonymous, Robert Batten, Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert Brewer, Lucy Broadwood, Cecile Chaminade, Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, Frederick Nicholls Crouch, Teresa Clotilde Del Riego) Price
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Here's a chance to dial yourself back to Edwardian England to sample one of the most extraordinary singers of the 20th century. Clara Butt stood 6-foot-2 with a frame to match and a voice that easily spanned the range between a soprano's top notes and a baritone's low ones. An important singer, even if an acquired taste for many, Butt sang with a power that defied the primitive recording equipment of the time. However, Ward Marston has done an amazing job of sonic restoration, so even these acoustic recordings--made between 1909 and 1921--convey the quality of her singing. The repertory is representative of her concert programs: a nod to operatic and oratorio selections, classical songs, and a heavy dose of the folk songs and sentimental ballads that endeared her to audiences, helping to transform her into a national institution. These days, songs like "The little silver ring" and "Snowdrops" may have little intrinsic interest; yet Butt hasn't lost her own thanks to the quality of her vocalism, her one-in-a-million voice, mastery of legato singing, and the perfect diction that lets every word sound. She can take a narrative ballad like "Barbara Allen" and make it a gripping dramatic miniature, and she transforms the quasi-religious sentimentality of "Abide with Me" into something intense. --Dan Davis
| ARTIST: | Kennerley Rumford, Anonymous, Robert Batten, Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert Brewer, Lucy Broadwood, Cecile Chaminade, Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, Frederick Nicholls Crouch, Teresa Clotilde Del Riego |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Marston |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| TYPE: | Oratorio, Solo Voice(s) and Orchestra, Vocal, French Romantic Opera, Song Cycle for Solo Voice and Orchestra, Italian Baroque Opera, Italian Romantic Opera, Classical Music, Vocal Music, Miscellaneous Music, Romantic Music for Voice and Keyboard, Classical, Choral, Opera, Classical Vocals, German/Austrian Classical Period Opera, Miscellaneous, Folk Song |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | 'Lusinghe Piu Care', 'Rend'il Sereno Al Ciglio', 'Ombra Mai Fu', 'Che Faro', Il Segreto (Brindisi), 'O Mio Fernando', 'When All Was Young', 'Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix', 'O Don Fatale', 'Caro Mio Ben', 'In Questa Tomba Oscura', 'Ama Nesciri', 'En Priere', 'A Youth Once Loved A Maiden', 'The Tears That Night', 'A Hymn For Aviators', 'Soft-Footed Snow', 'Three Fishers Went Sailing', 'Women Of Inver', 'Have You News Of My Boy Jack?', Snowdrops, The Keys Of Heaven, The Birth Of The Flowers, 'My Work Is Done', 'I See Not Those False Spirits', 'We Now Have Passed The Gate', 'Softly And Gently', 'Where Corals Lie', Husheen, My Treasure, The Fairy Pipers, The Enchantress, Will He Come?, My Son, The Little Silver Ring, The Leaves And The Wind, The Sweetest Flower That Blows, A Summer Night, Barbara Allen, My Dear Soul, The Lover's Curse, 'I Know My Love', Kathleen Mavourneen, Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn, 'Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonny Doon', Peace And Rest, The Promise Of Life, Abide With Me |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 638335202921 |