Kevin Short – Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Kevin Short – Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys (2018)
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Yes, at the opera, when the tenor and the soprano stubbornly want to make eyes at each other, there is always a baritone or a bass to sow some discord, sometimes in vain—Osmin, Pizzarro, Caspar—, sometimes successfully—the various Mephisto, Nick Shadow Lindorf-Dapertutto-Miracle. The American bass-baritone Kevin Short offers here, accompanied by an Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille in great shape, a compendium of very, very bad characters, roles he has already sung more or less on the whole lyrical scene. Reckon that he has already performed at the MET in New York, at the operas in Chicago, Houston Los Angeles and Washington, at the Opéra Comique in Paris, in Cologne, Stuttgart, Bologna; in the festivals in Santa Fe, Bregenz, Baden-Baden, Aix-en-Provence. Not forgetting, obviously, his intense participation in the concertante field with the orchestras of Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Cleveland, the one from the RAI, from Radio France and so many others of that kind. Purists (who are absolutely right), fear not: Kevin Short perfectly masters the French pronunciation, as well as the German one and the Italian one. As a “bonus”, he offers a tune from his compatriot Gordon Getty, Mephistopheles to Faust. For your information, Getty indeed bears the name of the famous petroleum dynasty, but Gordon much prefers to compose music—some excellent pieces, incidentally.

Tracklist:
1-01. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Faust, CG 4 (Excerpts) – Le veau d’or est toujours debout (02:16)
1-02. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Faust, CG 4 (Excerpts) – Vous qui faites l’endormie (03:11)
1-03. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Mefistofele (Excerpts) – Son lo Spirito che nega (03:53)
1-04. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Mefistofele (Excerpts) – Ecco il mondo (02:43)
1-05. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – 6 Songs, Op. 75 – No. 3, Aus Goethes Faust (Arr. D. Shostakovich for Voice & Orchestra) (02:13)
1-06. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Fidelio, Op. 72 – Ha! Welch ein Augenblick! (03:27)
1-07. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (Excerpts) – Wer ein Liebchen hat gefunden (02:19)
1-08. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, K. 384 (Excerpts) – O, wie will ich triumphieren (03:44)
1-09. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Der Freischutz, J. 277 – Schweig! Damit dich niemand warnt (03:17)
1-10. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Les contes d’Hoffmann (Excerpts) – Prologue. Dans les roles d’amoureux langoureux (02:41)
1-11. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Les contes d’Hoffmann (Excerpts) – Scintille, diamant (02:41)
1-12. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – I Lombardi alla prima crociata – Sciagurata! (05:01)
1-13. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H. 111 (Excerpts) – Voici des roses (02:37)
1-14. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H. 111 (Excerpts) – Devant la maison ‘Serenade of Mephistopheles’ (02:21)
1-15. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Mephistopheles to Faust (Version for Voice & Orchestra) (03:00)
1-16. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Mephistopheles’s Song in Auerbach’s Cellar ‘Song of the Flea’ (Arr. I. Stravinsky for Voice & Orchestra) (03:09)
1-17. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – The Rake’s Progress – I Burn, I Burn! I Freeze! (01:49)
1-18. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Robert le diable – Voici donc les debris du monastere antique (03:08)
1-19. Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, & Lawrence Foster – Das Rheingold, WWV 86A – Bin ich nun frei ‘Alberich’s Curse’ (03:31)

Personnel:
Kevin Short, bass-baritone
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille
Lawrence Foster, conductor

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