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Live Performances in Concert, Recital, and Opera

 Excerpts are from the two-CD set entitled:

Make Someone Happy: Stanley Cornett, Tenor-- Live Performances in Concert, Recital, and Opera.

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Beethoven: 
Adelaide
Martin Katz, piano

 
Schumann:
Der Kontrabandiste
Eileen Cornett, piano

 

 

Mendelssohn:
Elijah
"If with all your hearts" 

 

Lucas Foss:
A Parable of Death
 

 

Lucas Foss:
A Parable of Death
(continued) Leslie
Guinn, Narrator 

 
Giuseppe Sarti:
Air Italien:
"Ti lascio al ben ch'adori"


 

 

Handel:
Alexander's Feast
"War he sung is toil and trouble"

 

 Handel:
Alexander's Feast 
(continued) 

 

Handel:
Alexander's Feast 
(continued) 

 

Britten: 
The Turn of the Screw 
Prologue 

 

Britten:
The Turn of the Screw
Scene 8: At Night 

  		Jule Styne:
"Make Someone Happy"

Eileen Cornett, piano 

 

 CD Review in The Baltimore Sun (January 8, 2008):

 Arriving in a DVD-sized package is a two-CD set from tenor Stanley Cornett called Make Someone Happy (self-produced, available at select local retailers). Cornett, a longtime Peabody faculty member, has put together a remarkably diverse souvenir of his live performances from the 1980s and '90s, made in various locations and with varying recording quality (occasionally with annoying fade-outs).

There is some highly accomplished singing here -- a chilling portrait of the malevolent Quint in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw and a poignant account of the Agnus Dei from that composer's War Requiem; a sweetly phrased Adelaide by Beethoven and vivid interpretations of art songs by Schubert and Joaquin Turina; impeccably stylish arias from Handel's Messiah, Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Mendelssohn's Elijah.

Cornett's incisive touch gives just about everything here a distinctive quality, whether in such fascinating rarities as Dominic Argento's Letters from Composers or in an unexpected show tune, the one by Jule Styne that gives the collection its title. Listening to these performances sure made me happy.

--Tim Smith

 
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