Jan DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish in Concert

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Album Summary

Performers

• Jan DeGaetani
• Gilbert Kalish (Piano)

Composers

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
• George Crumb (1929 - )
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Stanley Walden (1923 - )
• Kenneth Frazelle (1955 - )
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

Notes & Reviews:

To many observers, no artist has ever replaced the great mezzo-soprano, Jan DeGaetani, as an interpreter of contemporary song. Writing of her, New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg called her "the finest song recitalist that the United States has ever produced." DeGaetani, with her magnificent duo-partner, Gilbert Kalish, concertized together for 30 years, the partnership ending with DeGaetani's death in 1989. This two-CD set gives us one of their final recitals together, and includes the wide-ranging repertoire that these two artists were known for. In addition, never-before issued concert recordings of song cycles by Haydn and Stanley Walden fill out this tribute to DeGaetani. Gilbert Kalish, writing of this performance, states: "The concert presented on these discs took place in the midst of the leukemia that took her life. When I heard this 1987 concert and the variety of great works performed with such love, conviction, insight and beauty, I felt that it needed to be heard. Twenty years after her death, many young musicians, even singers, do not know the name or the work of Jan DeGaetani. It is my hope that these CDs will bring the art of this great musician/singer and extraordinary woman to a new generation of music lovers and young musicians."

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Works Details

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Songs (3) (Goethe) for voice & piano, Op. 83

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 6 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1810
• Studio/Live: Live

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel, WoO 150

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Notes: Composition written: 1820.
• Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1820
• Studio/Live: Live

Poulenc, Francis : Chansons Villagioises :: Les gars qui vont à la Fête

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942
• Studio/Live: Live

Poulenc, Francis : A sa guitare

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1935
• Studio/Live: Live

Poulenc, Francis : Métamorphoses (3)

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1943
• Studio/Live: Live

Poulenc, Francis : Main dominée par le coeur

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1946
• Studio/Live: Live

Poulenc, Francis : Amoureuses ("Elles ont les épaules hautes et l'air malin"), song for voice & piano (5 poèmes d'Eluar

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1935
• Studio/Live: Live

Frazelle, Kenneth : Worldly Hopes, for voice & piano

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 20 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1985
• Studio/Live: Live

Crumb, George : Early Songs (3), for voice & piano

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 7 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1947
• Studio/Live: Live

Crumb, George : The Sleeper

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1984
• Studio/Live: Live

Debussy, Claude : Fêtes galantes (3), song cycle for voice & piano, Set II, L. 104

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 7 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1904
• Studio/Live: Live

Strauss, Richard : Lieder (8), Op. 10

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1885
• Studio/Live: Live

Strauss, Richard : Ich trage meine Minne, song for voice & piano, Op. 32/1 (TrV 174/1)

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1896
• Studio/Live: Live

Strauss, Richard : Lieder (4), Op. 27

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1894
• Studio/Live: Live

Strauss, Richard : Schlichte Weisen (5), Op. 21

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1887-1888
• Studio/Live: Live

Strauss, Richard : Lieder (4), Op. 27

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1894
• Studio/Live: Live

Gershwin, George : Goldwyn Follies

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1937
• Studio/Live: Live

Walden, Stanley : Three Ladies, suite for voice & piano

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 7 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1983
• Studio/Live: Live

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Arianna a Naxos ("Teseo mio ben"), cantata for soprano & keyboard, H. 26b/2

• Performers: Jan DeGaetani; Gilbert Kalish (Piano)
• Running Time: 18 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1789
• Studio/Live: Live