Thomas Hampson: An Old Song Re-Sung - American Concert Songs

Armen Guzelimian (Composer), Charles Wakefield Cadman (Composer), Ernest Charles (Composer), Walter Damrosch (Composer), John Woods Duke (Composer), Stephen Foster (Composer), Vittorio Giannini (Composer), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Composer), Richard Hageman (Composer), Thomas Hampson (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Thomas Hampson
• Composer: Armen Guzelimian, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Ernest Charles, Walter Damrosch, John Woods Duke, et al.
• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B000002RRM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #174,636 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charming songs, beautifully sung, June 8, 1999

By A Customer

This is not just an album of chestnuts. Hampson's love for the material shines through. His performance is always just right. His voice is warm, velvety, and wonderful! "In the Gloaming" and "Roses in Picardy" will bring you to tears, but my favorite is "Do not go, my love." Bravo, Tom!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs Saved From Obscurity, March 26, 2001

By	Gavin Reed (Pensacola, FL USA) - See all my reviews

There is a tremendous body of American songs which is yet to be fully appreciated. Thomas Hampson does us a favor in saving these gems from what might become obscurity. The songs on this disc are truly sentimental, bringing us from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. I commend Hampson for his continued dedication to singing these songs which rival the art songs of any culture and are worthy to be heard, sung and recorded.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You never know when beauty will break your heart, July 17, 2006

By	Santa Fe listener - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This was Thomas Hampson's debut album on EMI, a 1990 release that catapulted him much higher than his earlier recitals on Teldec. It comprises a rather scholarly collection of sentimental memorabilia. Each selection is a "platform song" that Victorians cherished from singers who varied operatic arias with sentimental popular stuff. (Was it Nellie Melba or Jenny Lind who interjected 'Home, Sweet Home' in the middle of the Marriage of Figaro?)

Yet as forgotten as platform songs are today, with the exception of a few Stephen Foster tunes like 'Ah, May the Red Rose Live Alway,' a folk song like 'Shenandoah,' and a brass-bound immortal like 'Roses of Picardy,' everything on this unique CD is ripe with emotion. I am not ashamed to say that I teared up the first twenty times I listened (compulsively) to this memento from a more innocent age.

One is transported back to the time and spirit of Kipling and empire, TR and the Rough Riders, and brave young dougboys marching off to their doom singing 'Over There.' I teared up just writing that sentence.