Leontyne Price and Samuel Barber in Concert
Great Performances from the Library of Congress, Vol. 19
1953 Recital:
Francis Poulenc
Quatre Poemès de Paul Eluard
C'est ainsi que tu es
Samuel Barber
Sleep Now
The Daisies
Nocturne
Nuvoletta
Hermit Songs (premiere performance)
Henri Sauguet
La Voyante
Gabriel Fauré
Au bord de l'eau
Leontyne Price, soprano
Samuel Barber, piano
1938 Recital
Six Folk Songs
O waly, waly
The Deaf Woman's Courtship
Brother Greene
Zu Dir
Batti, batti
Chi ti ci fa venir
Robert Schumann
In der Fremde
Felix Mendelssohn
Ist es wahr?
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
Nonnelied
Johannes Brahms
Der Gang zum Liebchen
Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht
Franz Schubert
Der Jüngling an der Quelle
Samuel Barber, baritone and piano
BRIDGE 9156
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The 1953 recording features the spectacular twenty-six year old
Leontyne Price, accompanied by Samuel Barber at the Library of
Congress. The duo's entire recital is issued whole for
the first time. In this recital the soprano and composer give the
world premiere performance of Barber's "Hermit
Songs", and perform Henri Sauguet's "La Voyante" (The
Fortune Teller) and other songs by Barber, Poulenc and Fauré.
This remarkable 1938 recording, released to the public for the first
time, gives us the 28 year old baritone, Samuel Barber in 12 songs, accompanying
himself at the piano. These little known performances reveal Barber
as a singer/player of uncommonly deep communicative power. The
performances (issued in cooperation with Mr. Barber's estate and the
Curtis Institute in Philadelphia) include folk songs from England,
America, the Tyrol and Tuscany as well as lieder by Schumann,
Brahms, Mendelssohn, C.P.E Bach and Schubert.
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