- Original Release Date: 11 Oct 2010
- Label: naïve
- Copyright: 2010 naïve
- Total Length: 1:19:07
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- ASIN: B0044JTQZ8
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 134,409 in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 in MP3 Albums)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Jl Adcock
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Love Songs is an interesting and varied collaboration between Brad Mehldau and Anne Sofie Von Otter, two artists you wouldn't automatically think had much in common. CD 1 contains a 7 song cycle written by Mehldau, and it all takes itself a bit too seriously to be honest. Von Otter does the best she can with the material and never sounds less than sublime, but Brad is all thundering chords and classical posturing, making it sound more like a Brahms lieder collection that anything else.
CD2 finds the pair working through 13 largely well-known songs from a range of masters of the craft, and it's a joy. A million miles from the laboured efforts of CD1, you can spot craftsmanship at work here, from the lyrics and melodies of these beautiful songs, through the accompaniment from Mehldau who proves more than up the task, and Von Otter's sumptious voice, which is absolutely stunning on some material here. Occasionally, a little bit of the ice-maiden in the voice just stops full engagement in the meaning of the songs, but overall it's wonderful stuff.
Two tracks alone make this worth the purchase price: Michel Legrand's What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life? and Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time". Mehldau and Von Otter bring their album to a close with this song, and it's poignant and lovely enough to bring the hairs up on the back of the neck, such is the intensity of emotional delivery.
Truthfully, I wasn't expecting much from this album, but CD2 alone lifts it to 5 star status. Simply beautiful music.
CD2 finds the pair working through 13 largely well-known songs from a range of masters of the craft, and it's a joy. A million miles from the laboured efforts of CD1, you can spot craftsmanship at work here, from the lyrics and melodies of these beautiful songs, through the accompaniment from Mehldau who proves more than up the task, and Von Otter's sumptious voice, which is absolutely stunning on some material here. Occasionally, a little bit of the ice-maiden in the voice just stops full engagement in the meaning of the songs, but overall it's wonderful stuff.
Two tracks alone make this worth the purchase price: Michel Legrand's What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life? and Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time". Mehldau and Von Otter bring their album to a close with this song, and it's poignant and lovely enough to bring the hairs up on the back of the neck, such is the intensity of emotional delivery.
Truthfully, I wasn't expecting much from this album, but CD2 alone lifts it to 5 star status. Simply beautiful music.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this CD primarily as a Brad Meldau and jazz fan. I also have many hundred classical CD's so am not immume to the attraction of that style either.
Anne Sophie Von Otter has a superbly controlled vocal range and a warm timbre but as is often the case when opera singers apply themselves to jazz or pop music there is very little emotion or soul on display in the way she sings here.
In trying to match styles here Brad Meldau (again technically superb) rather stilts his own improvisational style. He should have chosen a singer more used to this genre to make the most of this material.
I should give this double album a miss and spend your money on two CD's instead, one each of these seperate artists performing in their own fields where they are both superb. This CD is a waste of two great talents.
Reminder to self, do not buy jazz albums sung by professional opera singers again, never heard a good one yet.
John Cracknell
Anne Sophie Von Otter has a superbly controlled vocal range and a warm timbre but as is often the case when opera singers apply themselves to jazz or pop music there is very little emotion or soul on display in the way she sings here.
In trying to match styles here Brad Meldau (again technically superb) rather stilts his own improvisational style. He should have chosen a singer more used to this genre to make the most of this material.
I should give this double album a miss and spend your money on two CD's instead, one each of these seperate artists performing in their own fields where they are both superb. This CD is a waste of two great talents.
Reminder to self, do not buy jazz albums sung by professional opera singers again, never heard a good one yet.
John Cracknell
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