Title : Leontyne Price Rediscovered
Author : Recorded Sound
Release Date : 20020910
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Buyer Reviews : I have 'lived' happily and joyously with Leontyne Price since I purchased the 'blue' album many, many years ago. We are indeed fortunate that RCA found the recording of this recital, for Ms. Price's recitals always afforded her audiences opportunities to listen to the sheer beauty of her instrument and to marvel at her intelligent interpretations of German 'Lieder,' French 'melodies,' art songs by such American composers as Rorem, Hoiby, Swann, and, of course, Barber. The 'Negro Spirituals' were always bonuses and gave those who were unfamiliar with the songs of the African American an opportunity to understand and appreciate the depth of the African American's faith in God. On this CD, Ms. Price is in resplendent voice. It memorializes the sublime moments of her recitals which many of us still treasure. Listen carefully to her interpretation of Brahms' 'Zigeunerlieder,' for they are performed beautifully and idiomatically. But I would say that her performance of Poulenc's 'Tu vois le feu du soir' alone is worth the price of the CD. To those who 'grew up' with Ms. Price and to those who are too young to have heard her in recital, I say: Purchase this CD, and you will relive those sublime moments of the past or understand why the late music critic of The Washington Post, Paul Hume, wrote in a review of a recital given in Washington that the state of Ms. Price's voice is 'great . . . they come no greater.'
