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Thomas Allen. "Songs My Father Taught Me".
[] Songs by British and American composers. Martineau, piano. Texts. Hyperion CDA 67290 (Harmonia Mundi, dist.)
For more than four decades, Thomas Allen's international career has embraced opera roles ranging from Mozart's Almaviva to Wagner's Beckmesser, from Tchaikovsky's Onegin to Britten's Billy Budd. In this affectionate tribute to the memory of his musician father and namesake, the baritone offers a generous collection of ballads "with nostalgia and sentiment ... plus a genuine love of the often simple but very beautiful melodies that lie within these songs."
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