Playlist du Jour

Feel better, Dawn.

(Click on image to enlarge; text version, with links, after the jump)

Commentary on last Thursday's Portland concert ... Today's postponed Berkeley program ... Preview interview regarding Wednesday's Santa Barbara performance

Update: Happy Grammy, Dawn! (and ACB too... and, naturally, LHL)

I.
If You've Only Got A Moustache (Foster)
- Marilyn Horne, Beautiful Dreamer: The Great American Songbook
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway (Foster)
- Thomas Hampson, American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster

II.
Er ist's, op. 79, no. 24 / Mignon, op. 79, no. 29 (Schumann)
- Barbara Bonney, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Robert & Clara Schumann Lieder
- Dawn Upshaw, Richard Goode, Goethe-Lieder
- Lorraine Hunt, Michael Barrett, Robert Schumann: Kerner Lieder, Mignon Lieder, Duets
Goethe-Lieder (Wolf)
  26. Die Spröde / 27. Die Bekehrte
- Dawn Upshaw, Richard Goode, Goethe-Lieder
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Gerald Moore, Wolf: 24 Lieder
- Alexandra Trianti, Coenraad V. Bos, The Hugo Wolf Society: The Complete Edition 1931-1938
Sieben frühe Lieder: Die Nachtigall (Berg)
- Soile Isokoski, Marita Viitasalo, Songs by Sibelius, Strauss & Berg

III.
The Nursery (Mussorgsky)
  II. In the Corner / IV. With the Doll / V. Evening Prayer / VI. The Hobby-Horse
- Boris Christoff, Alexandre Labinsky, Moussorgsky: Complete Songs

IV.
Myrthen, op. 25: Die Lotosblume (Schumann)
- Barbara Bonney, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Robert & Clara Schumann Lieder
Sieben frühe Lieder: Im Zimmer (Berg)
- Soile Isokoski, Marita Viitasalo, Songs by Sibelius, Strauss & Berg
Lúa Descolorida (Golijov)
- Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish, Voices of Light
Five Songs: White Moon (Crawford Seeger)
- Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish, Songs of America: On Home, Love, Nature, and Death
- Dawn Upshaw, Margo Garrett, White Moon: Songs to Morpheus
Illalle (To Evening), Op. 17, No. 6 (Sibelius)
- Karita Mattila, Ilmo Ranta, Sibelius Songs
- Birgit Nilsson, Janos Solyom, Songs by Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius

V.
I'm A Stranger Here Myself (Weill)
- Teresa Stratas, Stratas Sings Weill
Je ne t'aime pas (Weill)
- Teresa Stratas, Richard Woitach, The Unknown Kurt Weill
Cabaret Songs (Bolcom)
  Song of Black Max / Waitin' / Amor
- Malena Ernman, Bengt-Ake Lundin, Cabaret Songs
- Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish, Songs of America: On Home, Love, Nature, and Death

Comments

[Rebecca M]

I saw the Santa Barbara concert and wrote a brief review of it here:
http://rebcamuse.livejournal.com/57906.html
There are few artists I respect more than Dawn Upshaw.