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Ewa Podles and Garrick Ohlsson "Live".(Sound Recording Review)
[] "LIVE" Songs by Chopin, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff. Texts and translations. Dux 0405
Who better than the incomparable Ewa Podles to present a recital of Slavic art-songs? A concert recorded live in Warsaw, on December 8, 2002, with pianist Garrick Ohlsson shows the powerhouse Polish contralto in top form. With the legendary Ohlsson contributing his own high level of artistry, the music-making exudes an authority and naturalness rarely encountered in the concert hall.
Podles and Ohlsson warm up the audience with five songs by Chopin, a composer especially dear to pianists in general and to Ohlsson in particular, who has recorded Chopin's complete piano works, and whose career was launched after winning the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1970. Chopin's songs are few in number (nineteen in all) and slight in musical importance, but they are charming and especially attractive in the hands of seasoned artists intent on unencumbered communication, and for whom this particular sensibility is second nature.
I have already praised the psychological clarity Podles brings to the texts of Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death (with Constantine Orbelian and the Philharmonia of Russia on Delos DE3298). It is a treat to have another chance to encounter the nearly overpowering voice, the ...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Driscoll, F. Paul February 1, 2004 700+ words
...supposed to do --here's the stuff I really like." In November 2001, Ewa Podles gave an unforgettable Manhattan recital, in tandem with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. The program of Slavic art songs and Scriabin etudes was rapturously received...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News KELLOW, BRIAN May 1, 1999 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Malafronte, Judith August 1, 2002 700+ words
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...of the greatest opera singers of our day. On July 22nd, Ewa Podles will be performing the title role of Tancredi at Caramoor...expressiveness of what the human voice is capable of." On Ewa Podles performing the virtuosic male lead role of this opera, he...
- Face to face: Lili Chookasian and Ewa Podles.(Brief Article)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Myers, Eric April 1, 2002 700+ words
...70s, and '80s, with golden-age-throwback phenomenon Ewa Podles. On a Monday morning this past November, Chookasian came...sings high, and she sings low, and yet she's a contralto. EWA PODLES: Yes, it's a rare voice, because of the range. We need...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Jellinek, George January 20, 1996 700+ words
...Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Zedda. Naxos 8-660037-8 (2) The cast of Naxos' Tancredi could hardly be bettered. Ewa Podles, for years identified with the title role, brings to it plush tone and remarkable agility up and down the scale, leaving...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Koopman, John January 1, 2004 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Opera News Scherer, Barrymore Laurence June 1, 1997 700+ words
...everyone knows, a contralto remains a rare thing. All the more reason to be thankful for the rise to stardom of Poland's Ewa Podles (Ay-va Pode-lesh). I first came across Podles three years ago, when I was captivated by a review copy of her recording...
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- Magazine article from: Opera News HILFERTY, ROBERT January 1, 1999 700+ words
...are used to laughing at everything and being fooled by nothing. But great singing believes in itself, and Polish contralto Ewa Podles gave a classic demonstration of belief on October 18, at Alice Tully Hall. Podles is a great artist inexplicably ignored...