An American Song Album

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A performance full of interest and vividly communicative artistry. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019 More…

Release Date: 26th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: PTC5186770
Label: Pentatone
Length: 82 minutes

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July 2019
BBC Music Magazine

October 2019

Choral & Song Choice

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Barber: Hermit Songs, Op. 29

Work length17:21

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

No. 1, At Saint Patrick's Purgatory

Track length1:33

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No. 2, Church Bell at Night

Track length0:45

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No. 3, St. Ita's Vision

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No. 4, The Heavenly Banquet

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No. 5, The Crucifixion

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No. 6, Sea-Snatch

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No. 7, Promiscuity

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No. 8, The Monk and His Cat

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No. 9, The Praises of God

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No. 10, The Desire for Hermitage

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Heggie: These Strangers

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

No. 1, These Strangers, in a Foreign World

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No. 2, In the Midst of Thousands

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No. 3, I Did Not Speak Out

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No. 4, To a Stranger

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Heggie: How Well I Knew the Light

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

No. 1, Ample Make This Bed

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No. 2, The Sun Kept Setting

Track length3:01

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Floyd, C: The Mystery

Work length18:12

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

No. 1, He Has Kissed Me

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No. 2, Gentleness

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No. 3, To My Husband

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No. 4, At Dawn

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No. 5, Rocking

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Copland: Four early Songs

Work length10:23

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

No. 1, Night

Track length3:30

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No. 2, A Summer Vacation

Track length2:20

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No. 3, My Heart Is in the East

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No. 4, Alone

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Getty: Kathy's Aria (from Goodbye Mr. Chips)

Work length4:22

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Chips, Darling, It's Started (Arr. for Voice & Piano)

Track length4:22

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Getty: Three Welsh Songs

Work length9:43

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

No. 1, Welcome Robin

Track length1:59

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No. 2, Kind Old Man

Track length3:59

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No. 3, All Through the Night

Track length3:45

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Deep River

Work length2:37

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

Deep River (Arr. G. Getty for Voice & Piano)

Track length2:37

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Danny Boy

Work length4:09

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Melody Moore (soprano), Bradley Moore (piano)

Danny Boy (Arr. G. Getty for Voice & Piano)

Track length4:09

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An American Song Album is a fine collection of songs by American composers, presented by soprano Melody Moore. The repertoire includes Samuel Barber’s introspective Hermit Songs, Jake Heggie’s engaged cycles These Strangers and How Well I Knew the Light, Carlisle Floyd’s exploration of motherhood in The Mystery, Copland’s impressionist and oriental Four Early Songs, as well as a varied selection from Gordon Getty’s vocal works. Set to Irish, Welsh, Chilean, German, Arabic and Afro-American poetry, these pieces constitute a panorama of the US as a melting pot of cultures, while simultaneously being bound together by an unmistakably American sound. Melody Moore manages to lift out the poetry of these works with her warm, lyrical voice and impeccable vocal technique. She is accompanied on the piano by Bradley Moore, one of the most eminent conductors and song accompanists of today’s American musical scene.

With her first solo album, Melody Moore continues her PENTATONE discography that already features recordings of leading roles in Gordon Getty’s Plump Jack (2012) and The Little Match Girl (2015), as well as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello (2017).

Reviews

October 2019

A performance full of interest and vividly communicative artistry.

January/February 2020

As an overall collection of American songs presented at a very high level, this one is far above the norm. Moore’s partner, Bradley Moore (no relation), is an experienced conductor and pianist who specializes in vocal and American music, and he contributes lyrical, warm playing.

August 2019

Melody Moore’s ‘An American Song Album’ feels personal and custom-made for her ample lirico spinto instrument. And that’s always a good place to start. She can thunder darkly, she can float, she can spin – she has the full expressive armoury. But, more importantly, the choices here plainly mean something to her and there’s no mistaking the high level of engagement that sets the best of them apart.

July 2019

This debut solo recital the American spinto soprano is an absolute joy: sensitively captured by Pentatone’s engineers, Moore’s big, bright voice can do everything, from exquisitely-controlled pianissimo high notes (try the end of the third Hermit Song) to the full-throttle climax of Floyd’s At Dawn. She’s the warmest, most natural of communicators, and her diction’s a model of clarity throughout her wide range.

25th July 2019

This recording is a calling card for a genuinely exciting and electric voice, solidly gleaming, with the high range of a soprano but fleshed out with dark, mezzo-ish colours and with its voluptuous richness focused into singing of striking directness and clarity.

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