Light Classics / Songs from Arlen, Bernstein, Gershwin, et al.

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Album Summary

Performers

• Ensemble Contraste
• Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Emily Loizeau (Voice)
• Rosemary Standley (Voice)
• Sandrine Piau (Soprano)
• Albin Simone (Voice)
• Johan Farjot (Piano)
• Isabelle Georges (Voice)
• Alain Buet (Bass)
• Karol Beffa (Piano)
• Sebastien Gueze (Tenor)
• Sébastien Droy (Tenor)
• Raphaël Imbert (Saxophone)
• Magali Léger (Soprano)

Ensemble

• Ensemble Contraste

Composers

• Michel Legrand (1932 - )
• Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948 - )
• Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
• Michel Berger (1947 - 1992)
• Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986)
• Frederick Loewe (1901 - 1988)
• Henry Mancini (1924 - 1994)
• Alain Boublil (1941 - )
• Charles Aznavour (1924 - )
• Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989)
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
• Nacio Herb Brown (1896 - 1964)
• Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979)

Notes & Reviews:

With the same enthusiasm put into the disc Café 1930, the Ensemble Contraste now makes its way into the exciting universe of the musical. Unforgettable melodies, devilish rhythms, poignant tension, and improvisation, all combine in the imaginative arrangements of John Farjot. They manage to create an intimate version of this music, mixing energy, sensitivity and emotion.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Studios Davout, Paris (2010-04-22&2010-04-24&2010-).

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Works Details

Arlen, Harold : Somewhere Over the Rainbow (for the film The Wizard of Oz)

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1939

Berlin, Irving : Top Hat

• Performers: Emily Loizeau (Voice); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1935

Legrand, Michel : La chanson des adieux, song (from "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg")

• Performers: Sébastien Droy (Tenor); Ensemble Contraste; Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 5 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal

Loewe, Frederick : I Could Have Danced All Night, song (for the musical My Fair Lady)

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Notes: Composition written: United States of America.
• Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Gershwin, George : Porgy and Bess :: It ain't necessarily so

• Performers: Rosemary Standley (Voice); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1935

Webber, Andrew Lloyd : Memory, song (for the musical Cats)

• Performers: Sandrine Piau (Soprano); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 5 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1981

Legrand, Michel : Chanson de Maxence, song (from "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort")

• Performers: Albin Simone (Voice); Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Form: Vocal

Arlen, Harold : Somewhere Over the Rainbow (for the film The Wizard of Oz)

• Performers: Johan Farjot (Piano); Raphaël Imbert (Saxophone); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1939

Mancini, Henry : Crazy world

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Isabelle Georges (Voice); Raphaël Imbert (Saxophone); Johan Farjot (Piano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Brown, Nacio Herb : Good Morning (used in the film Babes in Arms)

• Performers: Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano); Alain Buet (Bass); Ensemble Contraste; Magali Léger (Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1939

Bernstein, Leonard : West Side Story

• Performers: Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 4 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1957

Boublil, Alain : I Dreamed a Dream, song (for the musical Les Misérables)

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Karol Beffa (Piano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Notes: This work was written in collaboration with Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944 - ).
• Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Bernstein, Leonard : West Side Story

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Johan Farjot (Piano); Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Rodgers, Richard : The Sound of Music

• Performers: Sandrine Piau (Soprano); Ensemble Contraste; Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Gershwin, George : Porgy and Bess :: Bess, you is my woman now

• Performers: Magali Léger (Soprano); Ensemble Contraste; Alain Buet (Bass)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 5 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1935

Berger, Michel : Monopolis, song (from "Starmania")

• Performers: Sebastien Gueze (Tenor); Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano); Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Gershwin, George : Girl Crazy

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Raphaël Imbert (Saxophone)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1930

Berger, Michel : Stone, song (from "Starmania")

• Performers: Ensemble Contraste; Karine Deshayes (Mezzo Soprano)
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 4 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Aznavour, Charles : La Bohème, song

• Performer: Ensemble Contraste
• Ensemble: Ensemble Contraste
• Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal