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Track Listings
| 1. Vier ernste Gesange, OP.121 (Four serious songs/Quatre chants serieux) - Johannes Brahms 1833-1897 |
| 2. Der Wanderer an den Mond - Franz Schubert 1797-1828 |
| 3. Auf der Donau - Franz Schubert 1797-1828 |
| 4. Der Schiffer - Franz Schubert 1797-1828 |
| 5. Der Wanderer - Franz Schubert 1797-1828 |
| 6. L'Horizon chimerique, OP.118 (The Illusory Horizon/Der phantastische Horizont) - Gabriel Faure 1845-1924 |
| 7. Rollieum-rorum - Gerald Finzi 1901-1956 |
| 8. To Lizbie Browne (From Earth and Air and rain, OP.15) - Gerald Finzi 1901-1956 |
| 9. Lowlands (Sea shanty) - Trad., arr. Vignoles |
| 10. Sea Fever - John Ireland 1879-1962 |
| 11. Trade Winds - Frederick Keel 1871-1954 |
| 12. The Estuary - Michael Head 1900-1976 |
On this CD:
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Vier Ernste Gesänge
Composed by Johannes Brahms
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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(Der) Wanderer an den Mond
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Auf der Donau
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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(Der) Schiffer
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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(Der) Wanderer
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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(L)'Horizon chimérique
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Earth and Air and Rain
Composed by Gerald Finzi
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Earth and Air and Rain
Composed by Gerald Finzi
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Lowlands
Composed by Traditional
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Sea Fever
Composed by John Ireland
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Trade Winds
Composed by Frederick Keel
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
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Estuary
Composed by Michael Head
with Roger Vignoles, Jonathan Lemalu
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Baritone Jonathan Lemalu, the young Samoan-New Zealander who won the coveted Royal Philharmonic Society prize for best newcomer in 2001, chooses songs of journeying, homesickness and humanity for his contribution to the excellent EMI Début series. He is full of fire and joyful ambition, traits that register themselves in a willingness to open his throat and show off the glory of his beautifully varnished tone. His execution of Finzi's "Rollicum-rorum" or Schubert's "Der Schiffer" with its whipping dissonances and Krug-swinging lilt are irresistible, his diction exemplary. He renders John Ireland's setting of John Masefield's "Sea Fever" as if he had tasted the spume himself. He is, however, a little too sparing with his sotto voce, which he uses with telling effect in Finzi's lovely "Lizbie Browne" and Fauré's wispy cycle L'Horizon chimérique, but could have employed elsewhere, notably in the first of Brahms' Four Serious Songs, which lacks the timorous whisper that comes upon flesh in contemplation of death. Pianist Roger Vignoles is at all times a sensitive and obliging chaperone, providing surreptitious atmosphere that the singer unwittingly assumes. Vignoles' touch in Schubert's "Der Wanderer" expresses a certain traveller's world-weariness that the young Lemalu shares but can hardly have experienced yet for himself. He's at his best when rollicking. --Rick Jones
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