Sharon Mabry

Track Listings

1. A Nymph’s Passion from GARLAND: Five Poems of Ben Jonson (Frederic Goossen)
2. A Vision of Beauty from GARLAND
3. Epithalamion from GARLAND
4. Hedon’s Song from GARLAND
5. Eccho’s Song from GARLAND
6. A Wife Waits from At Casterbridge Fair by Frederic Goossen
7. After the Club-Dance from At Casterbridge Fair
8. The Inquiry from At Casterbridge Fair
9. Now Have I Fed from Three Songs Op. 45 (Samuel Barber)
10. A Green Lowland from Three Songs
11. O Boundless, Boundless from Three Songs
12. Jehanne la bonne Lorraine from HERSTORY III by Elizabeth Vercoe
13. I have labored sore from HERSTORY III
14. They call me Jenny from HERSTORY III
15. Look on thy country from HERSTORY III
16. La France nous appelle from HERSTORY III
17. I am a soldier from HERSTORY III
18. Gentle little Dauphin from HERSTORY III
19. The Holy Cat Blues from HERSTORY III
20. N’appercevez-vous from HERSTORY III

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Editorial Reviews
The Washington Post
The most powerful work I know by a woman composer on a feminist theme: Herstory III... beautifully sung.

The NATS Journal
Well-done and worth hearing... vibrant and expressive performances of each work.

Album Description
This CD features mezzo-soprano Sharon Mabry's sensitive and moving performances of contemporary songs for voice and piano. Mabry's singing of 20th century music has been widely and enthusiastically praised. The New York Times has acclaimed her "healthy, versatile and expressive voice," and the Boston Globe has admired her "creative, convincing, and above all, warmly communicative" singing.

Elizabeth Vercoe's HERSTORY III, a highly-charged twelve-part work based on the story of Joan of Arc, was commissioned for and premiered by Sharon Mabry. The texts include Christine de Pisan's openly feminist poem celebrating the victory at Orléans, the only poem about Joan of Arc written in her lifetime. Frederic Goossen writes that "The songs from At Casterbridge Fair are expressionistic, with a chromatic vocal line... The GARLAND songs are...much more diatonic than the Hardy songs. I intended them to be songs in the great tradition of the art-song..." The Barber pieces, premiered by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 1974, unmistakably exhibit Barber's wonderful ability to shape a flexible, expressive melodic line.

Sharon Mabry

Sharon Mabry, Music, Frederic Goossen, Elizabeth Vercoe, Samuel Barber, Rosemary Platt, Patsy Wade, Sharon Mabry

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Sharon Mabry Sings Vercoe, Goossen, Barber Manufacturer: Owl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000009JOV Release Date: 1995-04-16

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Sharon Mabry Manufacturer: Owl Recording, Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000WVWXC Release Date: 1991-01-01

Tracks:

1. A Nymphs Passion from GARLAND: Five Poems of Ben Jonson (Frederic Goossen)
2. A Vision of Beauty from GARLAND
3. Epithalamion from GARLAND
4. Hedons Song from GARLAND
5. Ecchos Song from GARLAND
6. A Wife Waits from At Casterbridge Fair by Frederic Goossen
7. After the Club-Dance from At Casterbridge Fair
8. The Inquiry from At Casterbridge Fair
9. Now Have I Fed from Three Songs Op. 45 (Samuel Barber)
10. A Green Lowland from Three Songs
11. O Boundless, Boundless from Three Songs
12. Jehanne la bonne Lorraine from HERSTORY III by Elizabeth Vercoe
13. I have labored sore from HERSTORY III
14. They call me Jenny from HERSTORY III
15. Look on thy country from HERSTORY III
16. La France nous appelle from HERSTORY III
17. I am a soldier from HERSTORY III
18. Gentle little Dauphin from HERSTORY III
19. The Holy Cat Blues from HERSTORY III
20. Nappercevez-vous from HERSTORY III
21. Ah, faith we had many victories from HERSTORY III
22. The Inquisition from HERSTORY III
23. God be in my head from HERSTORY III

Album Description

Elizabeth Vercoe's HERSTORY III, a highly-charged twelve-part work based on the story of Joan of Arc, was commissioned for and premiered by Sharon Mabry. The texts include Christine de Pisan's openly feminist poem celebrating the victory at Orléans, the only poem about Joan of Arc written in her lifetime. Frederic Goossen writes that "The songs from At Casterbridge Fair are expressionistic, with a chromatic vocal line... The GARLAND songs are...much more diatonic than the Hardy songs. I intended them to be songs in the great tradition of the art-song..." The Barber pieces, premiered by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 1974, unmistakably exhibit Barber's wonderful ability to shape a flexible, expressive melodic line.

Music Review:

1. Sibelius: Karelia, Tapiola, Les Oceanides, Valse Triste, etc. / Davis, London SO
2. Six Sonatas for Solo Violin op. 27
3. Sound Map of the Hudson River
4. Sundays in Ordinary Time
5. The Barber of Seville / B. Ford, D. Jones, A. Opie; G. Bellini [in English]
6. The Singing Bowls of Tibet
7. The Tallis Christmas Mass
8. Two Pastels, Andante for Strings, Concerto for English Horn
9. Verdi: Luisa Miller [Import]
10. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Mahler & Walter

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Back to Front [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Giovanni Battista Martini: Sonate d'intavolatura per l'organo e il cembalo

Classics & Pop Pieces

African Swim and Manny & Lo [Soundtrack]

DJ Mix, Vol. 1: Trend Edition [CD-single] [Import]

Garden [Extra tracks] [Import]

Forever and Ever: Gold Music [Original recording remastered] [Import]

I Can See It All Tonight [CD-single] [Import]

Ether Song/Optimist [Import]

Charlotte Church - Dream a Dream [Super Audio Compact Disk] [SACD]

Forever Gold: BBC Big Band Swing the Night Away

Cumbias Pa' Goza

Colombia Te Canta

Lead Pipe

Eingya