Classical Cabaret

Berlin, Ellington, Poulenc, Piaf, Arlen Gershwin (Composer), soprano Rosa Lamoreaux (Performer), piano Betty Bullock (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: soprano Rosa Lamoreaux, piano Betty Bullock
• Composer: Berlin, Ellington, Poulenc, Piaf, Arlen Gershwin
• Audio CD (August 25, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B00005Y1RF
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #863,215 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Love Is Here To Stay

2. Embraceable You

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. I Love A Piano

5. I Wonder What Became Of Me

6. Blues In The Night

7. But Not For Me

8. Blah, Blah, Blah

9. I'm always True To You

10. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

11. Mood Indigo

12. Voyage à Paris

13. Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)

14. So In Love

15. My heart Belongs To Daddy

16. By Strauss

17. I'll Be Seeing You

18. Les Chemins de L'Amour

19. La Vie En Rose

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Performances of Wonderful Songs, February 20, 2003

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Timothy B. Mustaine (Wichita, KS United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Classical Cabaret (Audio CD)

This is a lovely album of well chosen "classic" popular songs, mostly from the '30s, done in "art song" manner. All the biggies are represented--Gershwin, Rodgers/Hart, Arlen, Porter--and Lamoreaux and Bullock managed to include most of my personal favorites, along with a few lesser-knowns that maybe shouldn't be lesser known. Of course, including all the best songs of this sort would require many CDs, and I certainly wouldn't mind a few more recordings from this duo.

The performances are straightforward and good. Miss Lamoreaux has a "pretty" voice, but doesn't lack for character, and Miss Bullock is a solid, sympathetic accompanist

I would have given this CD 5 stars, but for two reasons. First, several of the tracks include minor flaws--missed notes in the accompaniment, tone "off" just for a moment--that could have been remedied with another take, and should have been. Second, good as these performances generally are, they suffer by comparison to the versions done by Joan Morris and Wm. Bolcom, who have recorded almost all of these songs, and usually done them even better. Alas, nearly all of the classic Morris/Bolcom recordings are out of print, and many of the best were never re-released on CD.

Quibbles aside, though, this is an album that I play and enjoy over and over again. It isn't one of those "play once and then sell" CDs I dump at my local used-CD emporium. And that's the acid test, isn't it? Definitely recommended.