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Pure Diva - Tribute to Joan Hammond

MR301129

SACD Hybrid
Surround/Stereo
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 78'45"
Tracks: 12
Booklet pages: 55
© 2011 Melba Recordings
Reviewer: Howard Smith
Review of Pure Diva - Tribute to Joan Hammond published on 20 August 2011

Listen: Korngold: Mariettas Lied (track 6, 0:00-1:03)

Cheryl Barker, soprano
Queensland Symphony Orchestra (tracks 1-8)
Guillaume Tourniaire, conductor (tracks 1-8)
Timothy Young, piano (tracks 9-10)
Samantha Cohen, theorbo (track 8)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

1 Tatyana's Letter Scene (Yevgeny Onegin)

Giuseppe Verdi:

2 Willow Song (Otello)

3 Ave Maria (Otello)

4 Tu che le vanità (Don Carlo)

Antonín Dvorák:

5 Song to the moon (Rusalka)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold:

6 Marietta's Lied (Die Tote Stadt)

Jacques Offenbach:

7 Elle a fui, la tourterelle (Les contes d'Hoffmann)

Henry Purcell:

8 When I am laid in earth - Dido's Lament (Dido and Aeneas)

Ronald Settle:

9 Shadows

Henry Bishop:

10 Home Sweet Home

Eric Coates:

11 The Green Hills of Somerset

traditional:

12 The Last Rose of Summer

Tracks 1-8 recorded 27 March - 1 April 2010 in Brisbane
Tracks 9-12 recorded 26 May 2010 in Melbourne


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