Heart to Heart

Betty Buckley | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 28, 2000)
• Original Release Date: March 28, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ko Productions/Ka
• ASIN: B00004SB0R
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,330 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just the Way You Look Tonight (Fields/Kern)

2. Ruby (Parish/Roemheld)

3. Anyone Can Whistle (Sondheim)

4. You're Nearer / If Ever I Would Leave You / My Funny Valentine (Rodgers/Hart) / (Lerner/Loewe) / (Rodgers/Hart)

5. Fire and Rain (Taylor)

6. If I Remember You Right / I Had a King (Buckley) / (Mitchell)

7. Where's That Rainbow / Spring Is Here / Falling in Love with Love (Rodgers & Hart)

8. Bide-a-While (Gromada/Williams)

9. Violets (Gromada, Buckley, Shankel/Williams)

10. I Am a Town (Carpenter)

11. How Deep Is the Ocean (Berlin)

12. Danny Boy (Traditional)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Singer-actress Betty Buckley has earned her status as a contemporary Broadway icon through the power and presence of her various theatrical incarnations, from her Tony Award-winning Glamour Cat in Cats to, most recently, Gypsy's Mama Rose. Surprisingly underrecorded for someone of her stature, Buckley has crafted a beautifully integrated program for Heart To Heart: she extends her uniquely vivid interpretations from standards (with real gems by Kern and Berlin) to Mary Chapin Carpenter's thoughtful pop-folk idiom, even including two new compositions of her own. What's more, she gives us a chance to hear her passionate art up close (all the more so for those who were fortunate enough to catch her cabaret performance of this material at New York's Café Carlyle), inviting us into an intimate setting through arrangements as spare and direct as the simple pen-and-ink caricature Buckley designed for the album's cover. Pianist-partner Kenny Werner's coolly elegant keyboard frames and dovetails with Buckley's vocals--passionate, vulnerable, and full of yearning--in a graceful pas de deux. What's more, Buckley fans will be delighted with the level of her own songwriting--in particular, "Violets," her setting of Tennessee Williams's lyrics for a production of his Camino Real, in which she portrayed Marguerite. Heart To Heart is bracing and fresh, an antidote to the overproduced belters of too many recital albums. --Thomas May

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Level of Artistry, April 29, 2000

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MBC (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart to Heart (Audio CD)

Betty Buckley has one of those rare voices that can shake the walls, or be delicate almost to the point of breaking. Heart to Heart focuses on the latter. Though a new found confidence seems at work with her. The selections draw you in and force you to focus on her calm, centered delivery. The CD's title is on target. Betty's heart is open and each tune asks the same of yours. Every song becomes a meditation. Moving you into a center where character, music, and her flawless delivery flow and tugg into and at your heart. While she's moves beyond sublime on many tunes, when the last track, Danny Boy, came on, I had to pull over. My emotions could no longer be contained. To say Ms. Buckley's delivery of the song is heartbreaking, does not even touch the depth of her interpretation. When the CD ends, you realize you have been touched by not only her voice, but her soul. Without hesitation, this is my favorite Betty Buckley CD,

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Betty Sings Low, Soft and Brilliant, April 13, 2000

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Greg (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart to Heart (Audio CD)

Okay, I love Buckley the belter big-time, but a change of pace is welcome and certainly with this heartfelt CD of quality songs. It's always been a tribute to Buckley that she can move from Broadway songs to those of contemporary nature with such ease; Buckley continues her interpretations of Joni Mitchell and Mary Chapin Carpenter songs on this CD, to brilliant effect. Open a very, very good bottle of wine and listen to this CD and celebrate Betty's voice (you'll be moved to tears any number of times, Kenny Werner, and Buckley's newly-built-herself label. A highly recommended CD from one of Broadway's finest actors (who comes with that brilliantly steely voice).

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Betty Buckley Sings Softly, March 15, 2000

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JOHN SCOTT (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heart to Heart (Audio CD)

I am a great fan of Betty Buckley the booming-voiced diva. Her performance as Mama Rose was the most stunning performance I have ever seen; her recordings of the hits from Sunset Boulevard are the best to be found. Here, however, she reveals a soft, heartwarming side that is truly beautiful to listen to. The album has a soft, intmate feel to it. Once you get past the surprise that Betty Buckley could be so gently emotional, you can relax and enjoy the beautiful singing.