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Thomas Hampson, Samuel Barber, Cheryl Studer
Barber: Complete Songs [Germany]
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (47) - Disc #1
1. Slumber Song Of The Madonna
2. There's Nae Lark
3. Love At The Door
4. Serenader
5. Love's Caution
6. Night Wanderers
7. Of That So Sweet Imprisonment
8. Strings In The Earth And Air
9. Beggar's Songs
10. In The Dark Pine Woods
11. Three Songs Op.2
12. Three Songs Op.2
13. Three Songs Op.2
14. Three Songs Op.10
15. Three Songs Op.10
16. Three Songs Op.10
17. Four Songs Op. 13
18. Four Songs Op. 13
19. Four Songs Op. 13
20. Four Songs Op. 13
21. Dover Beach Op. 3
22. Two Songs Op. 18
23. Two Songs Op. 18
24. Nuvoletta Op. 25
25. Melodies Passageres Op. 27
26. Melodies Passageres Op. 27
27. Melodies Passageres Op. 27
28. Melodies Passageres Op. 27
29. Melodies Passageres Op. 27
30. Hermit Songs Op. 29
31. Hermit Songs Op. 29
32. Hermit Songs Op. 29
33. Hermit Songs Op. 29
34. Hermit Songs Op. 29
35. Hermit Songs Op. 29
36. Hermit Songs Op. 29
37. Hermit Songs Op. 29
38. Hermit Songs Op. 29
39. Hermit Songs Op. 29
40. Despite And Still Op. 41
41. Despite And Still Op. 41
42. Despite And Still Op. 41
43. Despite And Still Op. 41
44. Despite And Still Op. 41
45. Three Songs Op. 45
46. Three Songs Op. 45
47. Three Songs Op. 45

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CD Details

All Artists: Thomas Hampson, Samuel Barber, Cheryl Studer
Title: Barber: Complete Songs [Germany]
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Dg Imports
Original Release Date: 1/1/2002
Re-Release Date: 1/2/2002
Album Type: Extra tracks, Import
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028945950624

CD Reviews

Bringing new songs to the table

Jennifer L. Barrett | Chicago IL | 11/05/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a fantastic recording, and I'm so grateful to Hampson and Studer for seeking out and helping to get published the Ten Early Songs (1-10 on CD1). It's wonderful to be able to hear some of his earlier works and to see how far he truly came as a composer. Highly recommend this set!"

A legendary recording

Strauss Lover | 09/29/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Few and fewer recordings anymore achieve legendary status and this is one of the precious few. And it will be a long time, possibly not in our lifetime, before anyone surpasses the achivements of Studer and Hampson. It is a marvel to hear this music sung with simplicity and full bodied vocal poise, magically erasing all memories of the arch Leontyne Price. No easy feat, this. To summarize, these discs are a gem in the annals of American music or, in fact, any music."

Needs imrovement in sound, and Studer is not ideal

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 10/10/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Lovers of American music, and particularly the much neglected field of American art songs, rapturously welcomed this 1994 collection of Barber's entire song output. The pianist, John Browning, has been a champion of Barber's music all his life, since his early days as a protoge of the composer.

Of the two singers, Hampson is far more experienced at art song than Studer, and it shows. She sings rather effortfully, often with an operatic warble, and her enunciaiton isn't as clear as it should be.

Still, both singers are in the right spirit. This isn't by any means definitive interpretation. Thomas Allen sings Dover Beach as well as Hampson, and Leontyne Price offers a classic set of Hermit ssongs with the composer as accompanist (he was also a skilled baritone, which accounts for his graceful writing for the voice). For a secelciton of songs and arias with orchestral accompaniment, Roberta Alexander is excellent on the Etcetera label, and Marilyn Horne has done well by a handful of Barber songs--including the haunting "Sure on This Shining Night"-- on one of her RCA recitals.

All in all, the singing is authoritative from Hampson, and if DG could improve the sonics--maybe they did on this two-fer reissuee--some of the hard edge to Studer's voice might be softened."