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NEW RELEASE: Moon Loves its light
VIDEO: Old Moon | Music by Ian Bent | Poetry by Roger Field Performed by Allison Angelo, soprano & Simon Docking , Piano Video director Robert Shaw | August/October 2013
NOMINATED FOR EAST COAST MUSIC AWARDS for
Best Classical Recording and Best Classical Composition (Old Moon)!
Soprano Allison Angelo's debut CD recording, Moon Loves Its Light, celebrates the moon, dreams and the night.
A collection of French mélodies and English Canadian art songs in which masterpieces by Debussy, Poulenc, Faure, and Hahn are intermingled with treasures by Canadian greats Morawetz and Somers, along with contemporary voices like Lloyd Burritt and Ian Bent, who's song, Old Moon, was specially commissioned for the CD. The CD title is from Marilyn Lerch's collection of poetry, Moon Loves Its Light, (Moraine House, 2004).
"Allison Angelo has a creamy soprano across the range, clean articulation and good diction in both English and French. She is flexible and intelligent, able to switch easily and convincingly between the range of musical styles, emotion and expression. Pianist Simon Docking is a sensitive, balanced collaborator and the recording is warm, clear and clean with a rich bloom to the sound. Kudos for including the interesting and very worthy Canadian repertoire. "
- Rick Phillips (former host of CBC's Sound Advice, currently freelance reviewer/guest lecturer)
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SAMPLE TRACKS
Fantoches, Claude Debussy
L'heure exquise, Renaldo Hahn
Old Moon, Ian Bent
More AUDIO SAMPLES
THE BIRD SELLER, Toronto Operetta Theatre with James McLennan, tenor.
Photo by Gilberto Prioste.
The houses stand not far apart (John Estacio)
Robert Cooper, conductor
Talisker Players, Orpheus Choir
Metropolitan Church, Toronto
Galathea (Arnold Schoenberg)
from BRETTL LIEDER
Brett Hodgdon, piano
Recorded at Sejii Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood
Rejoice greatly (G. F. Handel)
from MESSIAH
Andrea Grant, piano
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Toronto
Surabaya Johnny (Kurt Weill)
Performed by Allison Angelo, soprano, Joseph Macerollo, accordion, Nico Dahn, persussion
In concert with the Off-Centre Music Salon Series, February 2016