Songs of America

Jan DeGaetani (Artist), Samuel Adler (Composer), Milton Babbitt (Composer), Warren Benson (Composer), William Bolcom (Composer), Carrie Jacobs Bond (Composer), Charles Wakefield Cadman (Composer), John Cage (Composer), Elliott Carter (Composer), Rebecca Clarke (Composer), Aaron Copland (Composer), Ruth Crawford Seeger (Composer), George Crumb (Composer), Mario Davidovsky (Composer), Irving Fine (Composer), Stephen Foster (Composer), Charles Ives (Composer), Sergius Kagen (Composer), Aaron Jay Kernis (Composer), Ned Rorem (Composer), William Schuman (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Warren Benson, William Bolcom, Carrie Jacobs Bond, et al.
• Audio CD (May 28, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nonesuch
• ASIN: B000005IYX
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Beautiful Child of Song for voice & piano

2. Dust of Snow

3. The Rose Family

4. 4. The Moon Drops Low

5. Home Thoughts, song for voice & piano (Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sand

6. White Moon, song for voice & piano (Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandbur

7. Joy (II), song for voice & piano (Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg

8. The Widow's Lament in Springtime, for voice & piano

9. American Primitive

10. The Sleeper, for soprano & piano

11. My Father

12. Nothin' But Love for voice & piano

13. I Love You Truly, for voice & piano

14. Her Greatest Charm, for voice & piano

15. The Junk Man, for voice & piano

16. Lost, for voice & piano

17. Little Four Paws

18. Dozing on the Lawn

19. Song, for voice & piano "She is not fair to outward view", S. 354 (K. 6

20. The All-Enduring, song for voice & piano, S. 209 (K. 6B23)

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars American Song Potpourri, July 31, 2000

By 

Daniel G. Berk (West Bloomfield, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of America (Audio CD)

The 28 songs on this CD provide a broad spectrum of American art songs. JanDeGaetani possesses a beautiful mezzo-soprano voice and ideally expresses the proper emotions these songs require. Gilbert Kalish's piano supplies the necessary support without getting in the way of the singer. All in all, this is a good collaboration.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a beautiful rendition of 20th Century American Song, June 5, 1999

By 

Burkhardt Reiter : [e-mail] (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Songs of America (Audio CD)

This is a great album. It spans the spectrum of 20th Century American music from the tonality and romanticism of Stephen Foster to the experimentality of John Cage.

Jan DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish, with their understanding and sensitivity to the music of their time, combine to form a duo that sets the standard for interpretation of this music.

Students, professionals, and general classical music lovers will cherish this CD in their library.

If you want an introduction to American Music of this Century, this album provides the most accessible doorway to the widest array of styles I have heard.

2 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Kalish plays like a pig., December 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Songs of America (Audio CD)

While I enjoyed De Gaetani's singing, Kalish's piano playing reminded me of a player piano.