Huw Montague Rendall - Contemplation
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Huw Montague Rendall - Contemplation
Huw Montague Rendall (baritone) / Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen, Ben Glassberg
[ Erato / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 6 September 2024
Introducing an ambitious debut release, Warner Classics brings you a teriffic album with Baritone Huw Montague Wendell who flexes his extensive variety of talent and style!
'Contempation' stretches across three centuries, a journey into the transformation of musical dramas of opera, operetta, lied and Broadway musicals. Joining the stage is Canadian soprano Elisabeth Boudreault in which she and Huw perform a duet from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
"The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose...There's also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor; a real collaboration has taken place, and the results are quite something" BBC Music Five Stars December Opera Choice 2024
"Montague Rendall's characterisations are consistently focused and tellingly insightful throughout...It's a superb recital and a most distinguished debut, and I cannot recommend it too highly." Gramophone Editor's Choice November 2024
"His debut solo recording justifies the buzz. Hamlet's soliloquy from Ambroise Thomas's opera - velvet-toned, nuanced, with beautifully floated high notes - sets the tone for an eclectic programme on themes of self-discovery...he's heartbreakingly engaging as Britten's Billy Budd and puts in a classy turn as Carousel's Billy Bigelow." The Guardian
Tracks:
Thomas, Ambroise: Hamlet, Act 3: Récitatif. "J'ai pu frapper le misérable" - Air. "Être ou ne pas être" (Hamlet)
Gounod: Faust, Act 2: Récitatif. "Ô sainte médaille" - Air. "Avant de quitter ces lieux" (Valentin)
Korngold: Die tote Stadt, Op. 12, Act 2: "Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen" (Fritz)
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Britten: Billy Budd, Op. 50, Act 2: "Look Through the Port" (Billy)
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, Act 1: Ballade. "Mab, la reine des mensonges" (Mercutio)
Duparc: Chanson triste
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act 3: Aria. "Hai già vinta la causa" (Almaviva)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act 2: Canzonetta. "Deh vieni alla finestra" (Don Giovanni)
Messager: Monsieur Beaucaire, Prologue: Chanson de la rose rouge. "Au jardin où les fleurs sont écloses" (Beaucaire)
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2:
"Papagena! Weibchen! Täubchen!"
Duett. "Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena" (Papageno, Papagena)
(with Elisabeth Boudreault, soprano)
Rodgers, R: Carousel, Act 1: "Soliloquy" (Billy)
Mahler: 5 Rückert-Lieder: No. 3, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
