Something's Gotta Give
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Something's Gotta Give
Simon Keenlyside (baritone) & Scarlett Strallen (soprano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, David Charles Abell
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 3 November 2014
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To this day, music from classic Broadway and Hollywood musicals continues to enjoy immense popularity with audiences and performers alike. Here Simon Keenlyside, one of the world's most charismatic and sought-after operatic baritones, presents Something's Gotta Give, an album devoted to songs from musicals - songs that require every bit as much attention to text and interpretation as Lieder, and often the same mastery of vocal technique as operatic arias. Scarlett Strallen, a regular presence of West End and Broadway stages, partners Keenlyside in duets and sings two numbers on her own. They are joined by David Charles Abell, a musician steeped in the tradition of musical theatre, who conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in wonderfully lush original orchestral arrangements, a number of which have been specially restored for this recording.
The programme includes some of the best loved numbers in the repertoire, including Cole Porter's 'Night and Day', Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'', and 'If I Were a Rich Man' from Fiddler on the Roof. The range represented, from the emotional tour de force of 'Soliloquy' to the charming character song 'Reviewing the Situation', showcases the many facets of Simon Keenlyside both as an extraordinary vocalist and endlessly charismatic performer.
"The Chandos engineering is predictably fine. The recording is detailed and full making good use of the resonant warmth of the Watford Colosseum. I particularly like the wide cinemascope spread they have given the orchestra with harp hard over in one channel and tuned percussion opposite. The contribution of the BBC Concert orchestra is absolutely excellent and David Charles Abell's direction masterly. This disc can be considered a fine achievement if one that proves that singing musical theatre is much more than just singing the notes as beautifully as possible." (MusicWeb March 2015)
"Keenlyside manages to adapt his voice without any self-consciousness, and what comes across is a fabulous sense of lyrical line, a gorgeous creamy tone, acute characterization and superb diction, all the songs performed with a style and flair that is impossible to resist...This is superb Broadway singing, so much so that I quickly forgot that I was listening to one of the best opera singers of his generation." International Record Review, December 2014
"He is in easy, laid-back voice in characters ranging from Fagin to Freddy Eynsford-Hill. Strallen is a delight, and David Charles Abell and the BBC Concert Orchestra give sumptuous support." Sunday Times, 21st December 2014
Tracks:
Bart:
Reviewing the Situation (from Oliver!)
Bock, J:
If I were a rich man (from Fiddler on the Roof)
When Did I Fall in Love? (from Fiorello!)
Scarlett Strallen (soprano)
Forrest:
Stranger in Paradise (from Kismet)
Scarlett Strallen (soprano)
Kern:
All the things you are (from Very Warm for May)
Loewe, F:
My Fair Lady: On the street where you live
Martin, Hugh:
The Girl Next Door (from Athena/Meet me in St. Louis)
Mercer, Johnny:
Something's Gotta Give (from Daddy Long Legs)
Porter, C:
Night and Day
So in Love
Rodgers, R:
I wonder what he'll think of me! (from Carousel)
Oklahoma: O what a beautiful morning
State Fair: It Might As Well Be Spring (Scarlett Strallen)
If I Loved You (from Carousel) (Scarlett Strallen)
Oklahoma: People Will Say We're In Love (Scarlett Strallen)
Styne:
It's Magic (from Romance on the High Seas)
