FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 47:07 | 195 Mb
Classical, Instrumental
Canadian-Italian singer Emily D’Angelo announces her upcoming second solo DG album freezing, which features seventeen songs drawn from folk tradition, art song and beyond. The mezzo-soprano offers a personal take on music that spans five centuries, ranging from songs by John Dowland and Henry Purcell; Rebecca Clarke, Zoltán Kodály, W.C. Handy and Philip Glass; to recent works by Randy Newman, Jeanine Tesori, Cecilia Livingston, “Adrian Ira” Kramer and US band Ween.
The singer’s fascinating dark voice as well as the eloquent arrangements unite these very different pieces into a beautiful, spherical work of art. D’Angelo is joined by Sophia Muñoz (piano), Bruno Helstroffer (electric guitar) and Jonas Niederstadt (bass guitar, synth, percussion) on thirteen of the album tracks.
Tracklist
1. Glass: Freezing (Arr. D’Angelo for Voice, Piano, Guitar and Bass) (3:23)
2. Ritchie: O Love Is Teasing (Arr. D’Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) (3:23)
3. Adrian Ira: Quietly Waiting (Arr. D’Angelo & Helstroffer & Kramer for Voice and Guitar) (2:26)
4. Russell: Wonder Boy (Arr. D’Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) (2:32)
5. Livingston: Lullabies: Snow (Arr. D’Angelo & Niederstadt for Voice, Piano and Guitar) (2:16)
6. Traditional: Cold Blows the Wind (Arr. D’Angelo for Voice, Synth and Bass) (4:12)
7. Livingston: Lullabies: Silver (Arr. D’Angelo & Niederstadt for Voice, Piano and Guitar) (2:43)
8. Purcell: O Solitude My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406 (Arr. Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) (4:37)
9. Dowland: A Musicall Banquet: No. 11, In Darkness Let Me Dwell (Arr. Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) (4:15)
10. Tesori: Grounded: Night Drive (Arr. D’Angelo for Voice, Piano, Guitar and Double Bass) (2:33)
11. Kodály: Esti Dal (Arr. D’Angelo for Voice and Piano) (2:31)
12. W.J. Handy: Morning Star (Transcr. Muñoz for Voice and Piano) (2:31)
13. R.S. Newman: Wandering Boy (Arr. Muñoz for Voice and Piano) (3:03)
14. R. Clarke: The Cloths of Heaven (1:55)
15. R. Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens (1:31)
16. MacNutt: Take Me to a Green Isle (2:04)
17. McPeake: Wild Mountain Thyme (1:20)