The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Melodramas
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96245
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 10th December 2021
Contents
Works
The Stolen ChildThe Pied Piper of Hamelin
Song for a Child's Headache
Suite bergamasque
La Belle Dame sans merci
Queen Mab
The Dream of Eugene Aram
Fairy-Land
Artists
Jed Wentz (recitation)Artem Belogurov (piano, dulcitone)
Works
The Stolen ChildThe Pied Piper of Hamelin
Song for a Child's Headache
Suite bergamasque
La Belle Dame sans merci
Queen Mab
The Dream of Eugene Aram
Fairy-Land
Artists
Jed Wentz (recitation)Artem Belogurov (piano, dulcitone)
About
To avoid being overwhelmed by the accompaniment and yet remain declamation as opposed to singing, the vocal part requires a particular style and great skill, as described by composer Stanley Hawley in an essay titled Recitation-music (1912): “Any colloquial quality of voice is undesirable, and is strongly to be condemned; something more than mere speaking is required for success. The natural conversational tones of the voice do not blend with the pianoforte, for a thin speaking voice has not sufficient body of its own to afford support to a musical accompaniment, and moreover, cannot impart strength of rhythm to the poem. […] The quality of the voice required is that golden mean between speaking and singing, which does not possess the monotony of a chant nor the affectation of what is best described as ‘sing-song’, but that sympathetic tone that can be coloured by the soul; for the tone expresses feeling, words define it.”
Jed Wentz and Artem Belogurov have taken Hawley’s advice to heart, searching out in the melodrama a dual art that merges words with music in the hope of revealing just how moving the genre can be, why it was so popular, and how it may be revived today.
Recorded in March of 2021 in Schiedam, Netherlands
Booklet contains notes on the works and the genre by the reciter (the renowned flautist and conductor Jed Wentz)
Artem Belogurov plays a Blüthner piano (Leipzig, 1865) and a dulcitone by Thomas Matchell & Sons (Glasgow c.1920)
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