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American art song American art song has a color and an appeal all its own. Departing from the constraints of late nineteenth-century European traditions to draw from elements of American culture including folk music, jazz, and Broadway composers of American art song have created a large body of literature over the last century that has won great popularity with singers and audiences alike. While requiring the same vocal gifts demanded by Strauss and Wolf, there is an ease to this genre (abetted, perhaps, by the accessibility of texts in English) that may trick listeners into thinking they are not hearing lieder….
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Recording location | Bad Homburg, Germany |
Mastering equiment | Sony digital Editor 3000 |
Mastering engineer | Bert van der Wolf |
Mixing console | Rens Heijnis Custom made |
Microphones | Bruel & Kjaer, Schoeps |
Recording format | PCM 44.1 |
Analog to digital converter | dCS900 |
Recording date | May 1992 |
Editing | Bert van der Wolf |
Composers | Craig Urquhart, George Gershwin, John Corigliano, John Duke, John Musto, Leonard Bernstein, Lori Laitman, Paul Bowles, Richard Hundley, Richard Thomas, William Bolcom |
Recording engineer | Bert van der Wolf |
Producer | Ted Diehl |
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Digital to analog converter | Sony |
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Klassiek
(…) Wat een klankkleuren kan deze zangeres maken, wat een schitterende stem, wat een stembeheersing (…)
New York Times
Miss Wagner put together a program of considerable beauty and consistency and made a case for the richness of the American song repertory (…)
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