Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs

John [Classical] Alden Carpenter (Composer), John Woods Duke (Composer), Richard Cumming (Composer), Aaron Copland (Composer), William Flanagan (Composer), Ned Rorem (Composer), John Moriarty (Performer), Richard Cumming (Performer), David Del Tredici (Performer), Carole Bogard (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: John Moriarty, Richard Cumming, David Del Tredici, Carole Bogard
• Composer: John [Classical] Alden Carpenter, John Woods Duke, Richard Cumming, Aaron Copland, William Flanagan, et al.
• Audio CD (June 26, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Parnassus
• ASIN: B00005LPYJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,137 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Night Songs (2) for voice & piano: No. 1, Slumber-Song

2. Night Songs (2) for voice & piano: No. 2, Serenade

3. Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano: When I bring to you colour'd toys

4. Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano: On the day when death will knock at thy door

5. Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano: The Sleep that flits on Baby's Eyes

6. Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano: I am like a remnant of Cloud of Autumn

7. Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano: On the Seashore of Endless Worlds

8. Gitanjali, song cycle for voice & piano: Light, my Light

9. Songs to Portions of From the Sea, for voice & piano: All beauty calls you to me

10. Songs to Portions of From the Sea, for voice & piano: Listen, I love you

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Disc: 2

1. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 1, Nature, the

2. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 2, There Came

3. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 3, Why Do They

4. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 4, The World F

5. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 5, Heart, We W

6. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 6, Dear March,

7. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 7, Sleep Is Su

8. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 8, When They C

9. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 9, I Felt a Fu

10. Poems (12) of Emily Dickinson, song cycle for voice & piano (orchestrated 1970 as 'Poems (8) of Emily Dickinson'): No. 10, I've Heard

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A flawless and fascinating recital, April 13, 2005

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madamemusico "madamemusico" (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs (Audio CD)

This 2-CD set by soprano Carole Bogard is an absolute must-have for lovers of American songs, song recitals in general, or great singing. Culled from three long-out-of-print LPs and some performance tapes recorded for broadcast in Europe, it includes songs by Carpenter, Flanagan, Copland, Rorem, and the little-known Richard Cumming and John Woods Duke. And yet, there is not a single weak track on the entire set. Every song is interesting (something that cannot be said for many similar recitals recorded today), and each and every song is performed with musical acuity and an attention to words.

Particularly interesting, to me, were the songs by John Alden Carpenter. Largely neglected by modern singers and scholars, Carpenter wrote what many feel is the most successful fusion of classical music with jazz, the ballet tone-poem "Skyscrapers." It had the misfortune to premiere in 1924, the same year as Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"; but whereas "Rhapsody" was more of a pastiche, "Skyscrapers" blends the jazz and classical aspects flawlessly, producing an exciting and well-crafted work that deserves a wider audience.

The Carpenter songs presented here are not jazzy, but they do reveal a greater depth of feeling and originality in construction than one hears nowadays from the songs of Andre Previn or Jake Heggie. And the other pieces are equally excellent.

I highly recommend this album, especially for Sunday afternoon or summertime listening...between the excellence of the songs and the excellence of Bogard's singing, you just melt into the music and become one with the warm, intimate feeling that this recital engenders.

4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful songs, May 9, 2007

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S. C. Sanyal (Rotterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs (Audio CD)

A welcome reissue in CD format from old LP's of Carpenters compositions : song cycles of very well known lyrics. Particularly fascinating are the renderings of poems from "Gitanjali", a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore in English translated from original Bengali; a work that got Nobel prize in 1913 (Not the Pullitzer prize as mentioned in th accompanying text). The songs on lyrics/poems by other poets, all americans are just as beautiful. Well done.