Clara Butt: The Acoustic Years
On this CD:
1. Alessandro, opera, HWV 21 Lusinghe più care
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
2. Sosarme, re di Media, opera, HWV 30 Rend'il sereno al ciglio
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
3. Serse (Xerxes), opera, HWV 40 Ombra mai fu
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
4. Orfeo ed Euridice, (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 30 Che farò
Composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
5. Lucrezia Borgia, opera Il segreto [Brindisi]
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
6. La favorita, opera O mio Fernando
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
7. Faust, opera When all was young
Composed by Charles Gounod
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
8. Samson et Dalila, opera in 3 acts, Op. 47 Mon cour s'ouvre à ta voix
Composed by Camille Saint-Saens
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
9. Don Carlo, opera O don fatale
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
10. Caro Mio Ben for voice & piano (or orchestra)
Composed by Giuseppe Giordani
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
11. In questa tomba oscura, arietta for voice and piano (or orchestra), WoO 133
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
12. Little French Songs (3), for voice & accompaniment No. 2, "Ama nesciri"
Composed by Annie Scott
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
13. En prière, canticle for voice & organ (or orchestra) in E flat Major
Composed by Gabriel Faure
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
14. A youth once loved a maiden, for voice & piano
Composed by White
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
15. The tears that night, for voice & piano
Composed by White
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
16. A Hymn for Aviators
Composed by Sir Charles H.H. Parry
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
17. Snow for voice & piano
Composed by Sigurd Lie
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
18. Three fishers went sailing
Composed by John Pyke Hullah
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
19. Women of Inver
Composed by Raymond Loughborough
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
20. Have you news of my boy Jack, for voice & piano
Composed by Edward German
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
21. Snowdrops
Composed by Lehmann
Performed by Dame Clara Butt, Kennerley Rumford
22. Keys of Heaven
Composed by Broadwood
Performed by Dame Clara Butt, Kennerley Rumford
23. The birth of the flowers
Composed by Lehmann
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
24. The Dream of Gerontius, for vocal soloists, chorus, & orchestra, Op. 38 My work is done
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
25. The Dream of Gerontius, for vocal soloists, chorus, & orchestra, Op. 38 I see not those false spirits
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
26. The Dream of Gerontius, for vocal soloists, chorus, & orchestra, Op. 38 We now have passed the gate
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
27. The Dream of Gerontius, for vocal soloists, chorus, & orchestra, Op. 38 Softly and gently
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Conducted by Wood
28. Sea Pictures (5) for alto & orchestra, Op. 37 Where corals lie
Composed by Edward Elgar
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
29. Husheen, for voice & piano
Composed by Alicia Adelaide Needham
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
30. My treasure
Composed by Joan [aka Mrs. W.R. Gurley] Trevalsa
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
31. The Fairy Pipers
Composed by Herbert Brewer
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
32. Enchantress
Composed by John L. Hatton
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
33. Will he come?, song for voice & piano
Composed by Arthur Sullivan
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
34. My Son, for voice, piano & organ
Composed by Teresa Clotilde Del Riego
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
35. Little silver ring, The, for voice & piano
Composed by Cecile Chaminade
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
36. The leaves and the wind, for voice & piano
Composed by Franco Leoni
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
37. Sweetest Flower
Composed by Hawley
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
38. A summer night, for voice & accompaniment
Composed by Arthur Goring Thomas
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
39. Barbara Allen, folk song
Composed by Scottish Traditional
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
40. My dear soul
Composed by Sanderson
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
41. The Lover's Curse, for voice & piano
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
42. I know my love (Irish tune)
Composed by Herbert Hughes
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
43. Kathleen Mavourneen for voice & piano
Composed by Frederick Nicholls Crouch
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
44. Bugeilo'r Gwenith Weyn (Watching the white wheat), folksong
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
45. Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon, folk song
Composed by Scottish Traditional
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
46. Peace and rest, for voice & accompaniment
Composed by Robert Batten
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
47. The promise of life, for voice & accompaniment
Composed by Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
48. Abide With Me
Composed by Liddle
Performed by Dame Clara Butt
Editorial Reviews
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Here's a chance to dial yourself back to Edwardian England to sample one of the most extraordinary singers of the 20th century. Clara Butt stood 6-foot-2 with a frame to match and a voice that easily spanned the range between a soprano's top notes and a baritone's low ones. An important singer, even if an acquired taste for many, Butt sang with a power that defied the primitive recording equipment of the time. However, Ward Marston has done an amazing job of sonic restoration, so even these acoustic recordings--made between 1909 and 1921--convey the quality of her singing. The repertory is representative of her concert programs: a nod to operatic and oratorio selections, classical songs, and a heavy dose of the folk songs and sentimental ballads that endeared her to audiences, helping to transform her into a national institution. These days, songs like "The little silver ring" and "Snowdrops" may have little intrinsic interest; yet Butt hasn't lost her own thanks to the quality of her vocalism, her one-in-a-million voice, mastery of legato singing, and the perfect diction that lets every word sound. She can take a narrative ballad like "Barbara Allen" and make it a gripping dramatic miniature, and she transforms the quasi-religious sentimentality of "Abide with Me" into something intense. --Dan Davis
Clara Butt: The Acoustic Years, Music, Kennerley Rumford, Anonymous, Robert Batten, Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert Brewer, Lucy Broadwood, Cecile Chaminade, Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, Frederick Nicholls Crouch, Teresa Clotilde Del Riego, Gaetano Donizetti, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Faure, Edward German, Giuseppe Giordani, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Charles Gounod, George Frideric Handel, John L. Hatton, Hawley, Herbert Hughes, John Pyke Hullah, Lehmann, Franco Leoni, Liddle, Sigurd Lie, Raymond Loughborough, Alicia Adelaide Needham, Sir Charles H.H. Parry, Camille Saint-Saens, Sanderson, Annie Scott, Arthur Sullivan, Arthur Goring Thomas, Scottish Traditional, Joan [aka Mrs. W.R. Gurley] Trevalsa, Giuseppe Verdi, White, Wood, Choral, Classical, Classical Music, Classical Vocals, Folk Song, French Romantic Opera, German/Austrian Classical Period Opera, Italian Baroque Opera
Clara Butt: The Acoustic Years
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