The Singers: Maggie Teyte [Enhanced, Original recording remastered]

Maggie Teyte (Artist), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Noel Coward (Composer), Sigmund Romberg (Composer), Frederick Delius (Composer), Roger Quilter (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Jacques Offenbach, Gabriel Faure, Antonin Dvorak, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, et al.
• Audio CD (January 15, 2002)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B00005NY7B
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #438,040 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. La Perichole: Tu N'es Pas Beau... Je T'adore

2. Veronique: Petite Dinde! Ah! Quel Outrage!

3. Veronique: Ma Foi! Pour Venir De Provence

4. Apres Un Reve

5. Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes

6. Humoresque, Op.101 No.7: Christina's Lament

7. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op.55 No.4

8. Sir Roger De Coverley: Sweet Mistress Prue

9. Sir Roger De Coverley: Carefree

10. The Student Prince: Deep In My Heart Dear

11. The Lilac Domino: What Is Done You Never Can Undo

12. Conversation Piece: I'll Follow My Secret Heart

13. Conversation Piece: Nevermore

14. Der Nussbaum, Op.25 No.3 (Myrten)

15. Auftrage, Op.77 No.5

16. Die Mainacht, Op.43 No.2

17. An Die Nachtigall, Op.46 No.4

18. Meine Liebe Ist Grun, Op.63 No.5

19. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal

20. Indian Love Song

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Joy and melancholy, February 6, 2002

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John Austin "[e-mail]" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Singers: Maggie Teyte (Audio CD)

I wonder how many English singers, born as long ago as 1888, have been resurrected on CD in the year 2001. Dame Maggie Teyte can claim two CDs! This one forms part of the series "The Singers". All the recordings on this CD date from the 1930s. That those years were "lean years" for British singers, is also to Maggie Teyte's credit. Beggars cannot be choosers, of course, and what is here is not necessarily always her best work. The first three tracks show her at her best; elsewhere there are some quaint and queer items. In "Sweet Mistress Prue" you will hear "the sky is blue" and "how I love you" and every possible rhyming line ad nauseum. Eleven of the tracks derive from 1937 broadcasts she gave with the accompanist Rita Mackay. One of them is issued here for the first time, replacing another - a song by Hugo Wolf - that was included in a first issue of this collection on LP in the 1970s.

The singer puts her stamp on everything, conveying a sense of joy mixed with a tinge of wistful melancholy. Her admirers will welcome this CD with joy. That her voice never recorded well, and that these recordings were never the best of their day, might induce a slight feeling of melancholy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not representative Teyte, August 28, 2005

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Abhimanyu Katyal "abhi-k" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Singers: Maggie Teyte (Audio CD)

Maggie Teyte is known, for the most part, for her French Art Song recordings. This Decca 'Singers' edition, while entertaining, is not representative of her best, or indeed, her most iconic work. For that, you'll need to turn to her EMI recordings. All that said, these recordings show her in marvellous voice, and a couple of the performances, the Hahn and the Dvorak 'Songs my mother taught me' are very special.