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| ARTIST: | Giacomo Puccini, Yves Abel, Cheryl Barker, Paul Charles Clarke, Simon Birchall |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Chandos |
| TYPE: | Classical, Opera / Operetta / Oratorio, Italian Romantic Opera, Opera, Classical Music, Opera/Operetta |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Act I: Introduction - Cheryl Barker, Act I: 'So The Walls And The Ceiling...' - Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale, Act I: 'I Think Your Honour's Smiling' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale, Act I: 'It Can't Be Much Further Now!' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor, Act I: The Whole World Over - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich, Act I: 'Fate Can't Crush Him' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich, Act I: 'Is The Bride Very Pretty?' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor, Act I: 'True Love Or Fancy' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich, Act I: 'See Them! They're Climbing The Summit Of The Hill!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich, Act I: 'We Are Honoured' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale, Act I: 'The Imperial Commissioner' - Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Simon Birchall, Act I: 'Oh, Indeed, My Friend, You're Lucky!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker, Act I: 'Come, My Beloved' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Stuart Kale, Act I: 'My Fate I Have To Follow' - Cheryl Barker, Act I: 'Silence! Silence!' - Stuart Kale/Roland Wood/Cheryl Barker, Act I: 'Congratulations' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Frances Brett/Clive Bayley/Stuart Kale, Act I: 'Dearest, My Dearest, Weep No More' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby, Act I: 'Evening Is Falling...' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby, Act I: 'Child, From Whose Eyes The Witchery Is Shining' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker, Act I: 'Ah, Love Me A Little' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor, Act II Part I: 'Izaghi Izanami' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: 'One Fine Day' - Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: 'Come, Let's Enter' - Stuart Kale/Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: 'Yamadori, And Has your Unrequited Love Not Yet Released You? - Cheryl Barker/D'Arcy Bleiker/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale, Act II Part I: 'Now, At Last!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: 'Just Two Things I Could Do' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich, Act II Part I: 'This Child! This Child, Then!' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich, Act II Part I: 'Do You Know, My Darling' - Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: 'I Must Be Going' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby, Act II Part I: 'Ah! Ah!' - Stuart Kale/Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: 'Look, It's A Man-of-war!' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part I: Flower Duet: 'Shake The Cherry Tree' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby, Act II Part I: Humming Chorus - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Act II Part 2: Prelude - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part 2: Daybreak Over Nagasaki - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part 2: 'It's Morning' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part 2: 'Who Is It?...' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich, Act II Part 2: 'I Know For Such Misfortune There Is No Consolation' - Gregory Yurisich/Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor, Act II Part 2: 'Farewell, Oh Happy Home!' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich, Act II Part 2: 'Then Will You Tell Her?' - Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby, Act II Part 2: 'Suzuki, Where Are You?' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby, Act II Part 2: 'You, Suzuki, You're Always So Faithful' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby, Act II Part 2: 'Viper! I Want You To Answer' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby/Gregory Yurisich/Ann Taylor, Act II Part 2: 'Your Little Fluttering Heart Is Beating' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker, Act II Part 2: 'Death With Honour Is Better Than Life With Dishonour' - Cheryl Barker |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 095115307021 |
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Customer Reviews of Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English]
A touching English Butterfly Anyone familiar with Cheryl Barker's Butterfly will be interested in hearing this recording. I have heard her in the role twice - in Auckland and London - and her voice has filled out as the years have gone on. She hasn't a large italianate soprano; the sound is too slender somehow. Yet there is the paradox - it has great carrying power and a decent cutting edge to make itself heard above the orchestral climaxes. What really impresses is the sense of vulnerability and moral strength she imparts, making sense of the big moments of the secong act. The sound in Act one is gorgeous (and a super D flat in theentrance aria) and she differentiates impressively between the child-bride and the embittered woman of the two acts.
She is surrounded by a mixed supporting cast. Jean Rigby is maternal, warm and affecting as Suzuki. Gregory Yurisich makes Sharpless' dilemma more understandable than usual, rather than being completely ineffectual. Paul Charles Clarke perhaps illustrates Pinkerton's arrogance with a degree of vocal swagger, but the sound is rough-hewn and unlovely save for some moments in the love duet. Stuart Kale's Goro is suitable ingratiating and oily.
Abel's conducting is the other chief draw of this set. That he has experience of the score in the theatre means that his pacing is really superb, and the lush orchestration is given its due, the potent intermezzo during the overnight vigil sounding suitably ominous.
This won't replace the classic Butterfly recordings, but in the absendce of any new ones recently, and for acceptable diction in an English version, it is certainly worth the (not very high) price. Recommended.