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Barbara Hendricks, Placido Domingo, Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker – Puccini: Turandot (1982/2021)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 02:12:02 minutes | 5,23 GB | Genre: Classical
Source: SACD | Artwork: Front cover | © Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric
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Barbara Hendricks, Pori Sinfonietta, Jan Soderblom – Berlioz: Herminie, Les Nuits d’été, Cléopâtre (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:25 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arte Verum
“Throughout her fifty year career Barbara Hendricks has shown herself to be one of the greatest champions of French song. This has always held a special place in her repertory and in her heart, as have German lieder, Scandinavian and Spanish songs (not to mention jazz and blues); her musical world has no limits. For this new recording made in 2016, the Swedish soprano pays homage both to her singing teacher and mentor, the great American mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel, and to the creative genius of Hector Berlioz. If the Nuits d’été have long formed part of her repertory, the two cantatas Herminie and Cléopâtre are new.”
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Sharon Bezaly, Love Derwinger, Barbara Hendricks – French Delights (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:29 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
During long periods the flute has been almost synonymous with France, the country from which the music, the great players and the finest instruments all came. The French flute – whether dreamy as in Debussy’s Syrinx or sprightly as in Poulenc’s Sonata – is simply unmistakeably French, in all its delights. On her new release, renowned flutist Sharon Bezaly – who herself studied in Paris – celebrates this tradition, with a programme consisting of works composed between 1889 and 1946. Among the composers, some – Widor and Milhaud – are more famous than others, but not necessarily for their flute works. (Widor, for instance, is mainly known for his organ compositions.) Others are closely associated with the flute and, indeed, with the works here recorded. Roussel’s Joueurs de flûte is a case in point: a panorama of the flute through the ages in which each of the four movements evokes a mythical flutist, such as the Greek god Pan and the Hindu deity Krishna. Roussel has also composed the settings of two poems by Ronsard, in which Sharon Bezaly is joined by Barbara Hendricks. French Delights is something of a companion piece to a previous Bezaly disc: Café au Lait, a predominantly French flute recital accompanied by Roland Pöntinen. Upon its release that disc, and the artistry of Sharon Bezaly, were highly acclaimed, for instance in French magazine Diapason: ‘The flute turns into the voice of enchantment, a lullaby of the senses or an invitation to dreamfulness, into planing light or the glitter of light on water – an instrument almost too beautiful.’ Here again, with the support of eminent pianist Love Derwinger, Sharon Bezaly displays her prodigious talent.
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Barbara Hendricks – Barbara Hendricks & her Blues Band: The Road to Freedom (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Arte Verum
One of the most celebrated singers in the world, Barbara Hendricks was invited by Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Festival, to take her first steps in the world of jazz in 1994. In fact, what could have been more natural? This music has lived in her forever, it is part of her roots, of someone who first started singing with the Negro spirituals in the church of her father, a pastor in Arkansas. After having for many years explored the repertories of the great jazz instrumentalists and singers of the 20th century, she has for the past decade delved into the roots of jazz: the blues. This was first of all the case with the programme Blues Everywhere I Go that took us into the heart of the Mississippi Delta; today she offers us a new project: The Road to Freedom. The songs of blues and gospel have played a highly important role in accompanying and inspiring the courageous activists who have struggled for civil rights in the USA, a struggle led by Martin Luther King in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The emotional power of these songs, and the example of the activists’ conviction are more than ever necessary to help us confront the complexities and contradictions of today’s world, one too often based on division and hatred, and not enough on love and that solidarity to which Dr. King was always referring. Barbara Hendricks places her universally recognizable voice at the service of this music: a full-flavored voice with varied tone-colors and a wealth of color that make this repertory so fascinating and bewitching.
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