Fatma Said: Kaleidoscope
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 5419713921
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd September 2022
Contents
Works
Top Hat » Cheek to Cheek
La JavanaisePor una cabeza
La Tempranica
» Zapateado 'La tarantula e un bicho mu malo'
Romeo et Juliette » Ah, je veux vivre dans ce reve (Act 1)
Giuditta » Meine Lippen, sie kussen so heiss (Act 4)
My Fair Lady » I could have danced all night
Manon » Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Act 3)
La Fiancee en loterie » Il est dans les nuits espagnoles (Bolero) (Act 2)
I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me) (G Merrill, S Rubicam)Minue cantado (Minuet in song)
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
» Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour (Barcarolle)
Senza fineEnrico IV
» J'oublie (Oblivion)
Maria de Buenos Aires » Yo soy Maria
Sieben Ohrfeigen » Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein
Les Trois Valses » Je t'aime quand meme (Act 2)
Wiener Blut (operetta) » Ich spur es... das Wiener Blut!
El chocloMarie Galante
» Tango-Habanera (Youkali)
Artists
Fatma Said (soprano)Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
David Bergmuller (lute)
Lucienne Renaudin Vary (trumpet)
Rageed William (nay)
Tim Allhoff (piano)
Henning Sieverts (double bass)
Heinrich Kobberling (drums, percussion)
Philip Krause (percussion)
Christian Gerber (bandoneon)
Quinteto Angel
vision string quartet
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Conductor
Sascha GoetzelWorks
Top Hat » Cheek to Cheek
La JavanaisePor una cabeza
La Tempranica
» Zapateado 'La tarantula e un bicho mu malo'
Romeo et Juliette » Ah, je veux vivre dans ce reve (Act 1)
Giuditta » Meine Lippen, sie kussen so heiss (Act 4)
My Fair Lady » I could have danced all night
Manon » Obeissons quand leur voix appelle (Act 3)
La Fiancee en loterie » Il est dans les nuits espagnoles (Bolero) (Act 2)
I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me) (G Merrill, S Rubicam)Minue cantado (Minuet in song)
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
» Belle nuit, o nuit d'amour (Barcarolle)
Senza fineEnrico IV
» J'oublie (Oblivion)
Maria de Buenos Aires » Yo soy Maria
Sieben Ohrfeigen » Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein
Les Trois Valses » Je t'aime quand meme (Act 2)
Wiener Blut (operetta) » Ich spur es... das Wiener Blut!
El chocloMarie Galante
» Tango-Habanera (Youkali)
Artists
Fatma Said (soprano)Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)
David Bergmuller (lute)
Lucienne Renaudin Vary (trumpet)
Rageed William (nay)
Tim Allhoff (piano)
Henning Sieverts (double bass)
Heinrich Kobberling (drums, percussion)
Philip Krause (percussion)
Christian Gerber (bandoneon)
Quinteto Angel
vision string quartet
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
Conductor
Sascha GoetzelAbout
Fatma Said follows her award-winning debut album El Nour with an even more colourful release. Imbued with the spirit of the dance, Kaleidoscope spins across cultures, genres and eras, moving from Strauss, Lehár, Offenbach, Gounod, Weill and Piazzolla to Broadway (My Fair Lady) and the hits of Serge Gainsbourg, Gino Paoli and Whitney Houston. The young Egyptian soprano sings in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian and Arabic, and among her partners are the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and conductor Sascha Goetzel, mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary.
“Music and dance interlink as one,” says Fatma Said, “They are emotion and physicality in unison. This album is a montage of many different songs and arias, each with its own story to tell through a particular style of music and rhythm. You will encounter my voice turning and changing kaleidoscopically, giving these disparate characters the diversity of voices and musical styles they need: multiple vocal colours, dance inflections, linguistic timbres. With each of them I could have danced – and sung – all night.”
Sound/Video
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1Nin: Minué cantado
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2Massenet: Obéissons quand leur voix appelle (Manon, Act III)
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3Messager: Il est dans les nuits espagnoles (La Fiancée en loterie, Act II)
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4Oscar Straus: Je t‘aime (Les Trois Valses, Act II)
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5Johann Strauss II: Ich spür es... das Wiener Blut (Wiener Blut)
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6Lehár: Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß (Giuditta, Act IV)
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7Offenbach: Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Act III)
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8Gounod: Je veux vivre (Roméo et Juliette, Act I)
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9Giménez: La tarántula é un bicho mú malo (La Tempránica, Scene 1)
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10Loewe: I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)
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11Schröder: Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein (Sieben Ohrfeigen)
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12Berlin: Cheek to Cheek (Top Hat)
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13Weill: Youkali (Marie Galante)
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14Gardel: Por una cabeza (Tango Bar)
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15Villoldo: Ad Ay Sa’ab (El Choclo)
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16Piazzolla: Yo soy María (María de Buenos Aires)
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17Piazzolla: J’oublie (Oblivion) (Enrico IV)
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18Gainsbourg: La Javanaise
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19Paoli: Senza fine
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20Merrill & Rubicam: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Europadisc Review
Fatma Said follows the extraordinary success of her 2020 album ‘El Nour’ with an even more wide-ranging new disc entitled ‘Kaleidoscope’. The title suggests an infinite diversity of patterns and colours, and the range of the music here – from French opera and Viennese operetta via zarzuela and musical to tango, chanson and pop – is as astonishing as the variety of timbres this acclaimed Egyptian soprano displays in her performances. In the booklet note, Said talks of the fundamental importance to her of dance and movement (physical and emotional), and the dance forms which underlie the various parts of this ‘montage’ – waltz, boléro, barcarolle, tarantella – constitute a further theme for the disc.
It’s a challenge to evoke the range of colour and movement, as well as the array of characters and situations embodied in these arias and songs, and one to which Fatma Said and her musical colleagues reply with obvious relish. The opening number, Joaquín Nin’s Minué cantado (‘Minuet in song’) on a Golden Age melody by José Bassa, sensitively arranged and accompanied by lutenist David Bergmüller, establishes an intimate tone full of old-world nostalgia and is beautifully inflected by Said.
From this focussed beginning, the canvas expands to the world of opera as Said, now accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under Sascha Goetzel, takes us on a whirlwind tour of French, Viennese and Spanish works. They ease us into Manon’s gavotte ‘Obéissons quand leur voix appelle’ from Massenet’s eponymous opera, completely at home in the French idiom and rising to spectacularly gleaming top notes at the climax. The boléro ‘Il est dans les nuits espagnoles’ from Messager and Lacôme’s La Fiancée en loterie combines Hispanic passion with plenty of vocal warmth and focus. Oscar Straus’s ‘Je t’aime quand mê me’ from the operetta Les Trois Valses makes for an elegant, subtle transition to the world of Viennese light opera, and the Countess’s ‘Ich spür es… das Wiener Blut!’ from Johann Strauss’s Wiener Blut has all the swing and vivacity one could want, with teasing Viennese rubato, even if a native speaker might project the consonants more clearly. Still more successful at evoking the passionate side of central Europe is ‘Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiß’ from Lehár’s Giuditta, with some exquisitely suggestive vocal shading, from the mezzo range right up to the top notes.
In the celebrated Barcarolle from Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Said is joined by star mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa in a marvellously nuanced performance with magical contributions from the orchestra under Goetzel’s sensitive direction. The voices entwine and unite to create one of the disc’s many memorable moments. Juliette’s ‘Ah! Je veux vivre’ from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette is another spine-tingling waltz, with just the right degree of suggestiveness, wonderfully supple vocal tone, and a formidable final ascent. The toe-tapping tarantella ‘La tarántula é un bicho mú malo’ from Gerónimo Giménez’s zarzuela La Tempránica makes a deliciously infectious close to the more ‘classical’ half of the disc.
Goetzel and the Monte-Carlo orchestra remain for the first two numbers of the lighter fare: a winning account of Frederick Loewe’s ‘I Could Have Danced All Night’ from My Fair Lady, every note oozing glamour, and Friedrich Schröder’s ‘Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein’ from the 1937 German screwball comedy film Sieben Ohrfeigen (Seven Slaps), delivered with sultry smokiness. From then on, a jazz/tango combo of musicians led by pianist Tim Allhoff take over, from a splendidly jazzy arrangement of Irving Berlin’s ‘Cheek to Cheek’, and a yearning, chanson-style rendition of Weill’s tango-habanera Youkali, to tangos by Gardel, Villoldo and Piazzolla. Particularly enjoyable are Gardel’s impassioned Por una cabeza, Tamer Hussein’s specially-written, wonderfully immersive Arabic text for Villoldo’s El Choclo, and the distinctive sound of Rageed William’s ney flute in Piazzolla’s introspective ‘J’oublie’.
The final three tracks – Serge Gainsbourg’s chanson-style La Javanaise, Gino Paoli’s Senza fine and Merrill & Rubicam’s Whitney Houston vehicle I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) – inhabit the world of pop, and what’s remarkable is how effortlessly natural Fatma Said sounds in all these idioms, alongside partners with whom she is clearly totally at ease. There’s none of that timbral stiltedness that ‘classical’ singers often bring to such lighter styles: and the pliability of Said’s voice, as well as her relaxed expressivity, speak volumes for her human qualities as well as a formidable and supremely adaptable technique. By any measure, this is a sequel that more than lives up to expectations, truly kaleidoscopic in its range of styles and emotions.
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