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David Daniels: Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete.(Sound Recording Review)
[] "BERLIOZ: LES NUITS D'ETE" With songs and orchestral pieces by Berlioz, Ravel and Faure. Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Nelson. Texts and translations. Virgin Classics 5 45646 2
David Daniels is unique in the opera world--a countertenor who has developed the kind of star career normally reserved for singers of more conventional vocal makeup. In Baroque opera, whether caressing the sweetness of a Handelian adagio or executing the divisions in bravura passagework with martial aplomb, he makes the reasons for his success entirely clear. On this disc, Daniels ventures far afield of his normal repertoire to tackle a selection of romantic chansons, with Nuits d'Ete as the main feature.
It's not especially apt territory for his talents. Daniels's tone lacks the beauty and the range of color needed for this material, and he's particularly at a loss to convey languor or sensuality. The voice's mode of production makes it stiff and unwieldy, with the notes not sounding quickly enough for full expressivity. Moreover, it's distinctly hooty on top, which in the Berlioz ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) February 13, 2002 700+ words
David Daniels - dubbed the "King of the Countertenors...Nuits d'Ete (Summer Nights)" by Berlioz; two selections from Handel's "Semele...the town. CAPTION(S): Countertenor David Daniels woll perform Friday at the Wisconsin...
- Berlioz. Past, Present, Future. Bicentenary Essays.(France and French Cultural...
- Magazine article from: Notes Heidlberger, Frank June 1, 2004 700+ words
Berlioz. Past, Present, Future. Bicentenary...examples, illustrations, index. Hector Berlioz's bicentennial in 2003 witnessed a large...initiated by the Comite International Hector Berlioz--had already started by 2001, considering...
- Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Brittan, Francesca December 1, 2008 700+ words
Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work. Edited...references, index. In the most recent set of Berlioz-focused essays edited by Peter Bloom...from the explosion of activity surrounding Berlioz's bicentennial anniversary in 2003...
- `Berlioz: Vol. 1: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832,' and `Vol. 2: Servitude...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Wilson, Frank August 9, 2000 700+ words
...fairly be traced to the exertions of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), whose dozen or so masterworks...like one another. Jacques Barzun, whose "Berlioz and the Romantic Century" is the cornerstone of Berlioz scholarship, has written that Berlioz...
- Hector Berlioz.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes GRAZIA, DONNA M. DI December 1, 1999 700+ words
Hector Berlioz. Messe solennelle. Edited by Hugh Macdonald...from nineteenth-century France. Hector Berlioz's Messe solennelle of 1824 is a youthful...emotional power" (Hugh Macdonald, "Berlioz's Messe solennelle," 19th Century...
- Hector Berlioz; French composer stretched the truth of his life,...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 4, 2002 700+ words
...TIMES The great French composer Hector Berlioz has had great biographers who have told...Barzun published his two volume "Hector Berlioz and the Romantic Century" (1950...music critic David Cairns came out with "Berlioz: The Making of an Artist," followed...
- The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes SALOMAN, ORA FRISHBERG September 1, 2001 700+ words
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz. Edited by Peter Bloom. (Cambridge...series is the volume devoted to Hector Berlioz, the bicentenary of whose birth will...the volume includes a chronology of Berlioz's life, an introduction, notes...
- Berlioz, de melodrama en melodrama. (Luis Héctor Berlioz, compositor...
- Magazine article from: Contenido Caballero, Genoveva August 1, 1997 700+ words
...el joven compositor francs Luis Hctor Berlioz, de slo 27 aos de edad, dirigiendo la...sucedido en la historia del certamen. Berlioz naci el 11 de diciembre de 1803 en La...pormenores del rbol genealgico de los Berlioz y con afn pedaggico agreg al documento...
