If you Love for Beauty vol. II

Artists Sasha Cooke

€29,99 EUR

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Producer’s Notes
I used to spend a lot of time at The Metropolitan Opera, but have lived in Los Angeles for the past 25 years so no longer hear opera in New York very often. I am therefore doubly grateful to Peter Gelb for creating “The Met: Live in HD” which broadcasts in movie theaters around the world. Even though mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has been recognized as a young superstar in concert and opera for many years now, it was as Kitty Oppenheimer in The Met’s 2008 production of John Adams’Doctor Atomic that I first heard her. Half way through her first act aria “Am I In Your Light?” I knew I wanted to work with her. Despite her ferociously busy schedule Sasha responded immediately with a “Yes!” to my suggestion we make her debut album. Since then we had the great pleasure to hear Sasha in Southern California in her debut performances with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Sasha won her first GRAMMY. Award for Sony’s DVD release of Doctor Atomic from The Met.

Bob Attiyeh

Tracklist

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Total time: 28:59

1. Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer - I. La Fleur des eaux

12:45

2. Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer - Interlude

02:39

3. Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer - II. La Mort de l'amour

13:35

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Additional Information

Label

Yarlung Records

SKU

YAR14148DSD2

Qualities

DSD 128, DSD 256, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz, DSD 64

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artists

Sasha Cooke

Composers

Chausson

Conductors

Yehuda Gilad

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

Analog

Instruments

Orchestra

Release Date

January 09, 2015

Not Available on SACD

Reviews

The Absolute Sound

Vade Forrester

The album If You Love for Beauty Volume II, with Chausson's "Poeme de l'Amour et de la Mer" sung by mezzo-soprano Sasha [Cooke] with the Colburn Orchestra conducted by Yehunda Gilad is a newish DSD256 recording on Yarlung Records at NativeDSD.com. Played through Roon on a very modest desktop system ...sounded extremely rich, even lush ...the music was ravishingly beautiful - as were the DSD64 and DSD128 music files I played.

Source: www.theabsolutesound.com

The Phoenix

Lloyd Schwartz

"has a thrilling, dramatic voice that matches the color of her luxuriant dark red hair, and the empathetic ability to live inside these poems and articulate their variegated emotional shadings"

The New York Times

Anthony Tommasini

"sung with aching, wistful intensity”

The New Yorker

Alex Ross

"gifted young mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, as Kitty Oppenheimer, was able to create a fresh, vital portrayal, bringing a luminous tone, a generously supported musical line, a keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction"