RENDALL HUW MONTAGUE – CONTEMPLATION CD

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AMBROISE THOMAS 1811–1896
Hamlet · Libretto: Michel Carré & Jules Barbier,
after Alexandre Dumas père & Paul Meurice, after William Shakespeare
1 “J’ai pu frapper le misérable…Être ou ne pas être” (Hamlet, Act III) 5.40
CHARLES GOUNOD 1818–1893
Faust · Libretto: Jules Barbier & Michel Carré, after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 “Ô sainte médaille…Avant de quitter ces lieux” (Valentin, Act II) 3.52
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD 1897–1957
Die tote Stadt · Libretto: Paul Schott (a.k.a. Julius & Erich Wolfgang Korngold),
after Georges Rodenbach (Bruges-la-Morte)
3 “Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen” (Fritz, Act II) 4.26
GUSTAV MAHLER 1860–1911
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen · Texts: Gustav Mahler
4 “Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht” 4.09
5 “Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld” 3.52
6 “Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer” 3.09
7 “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” 5.36
BENJAMIN BRITTEN 1913–1976
Billy Budd · Libretto: E.M. Forster & Eric Crozier, after Herman Melville
8 “Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!” (Billy Budd, Act II) 5.29
Kouchyar Shahroudi piccolo
CHARLES GOUNOD
Roméo et Juliette · Libretto: Jules Barbier & Michel Carré, after William Shakespeare
9 “Mab, la reine des mensonges” (Mercutio, Act I) 2.32
HENRI DUPARC 1848–1933
10 Chanson triste · Text: Jean Lahor (a.k.a. Henri Cazalis) 3.27
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756–1791
Le nozze di Figaro K.492 · Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte,
after Pierre Beaumarchais (La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro)
11 “Hai già vinta la causa!…Vedrò, mentr’io sospiro” (Conte d’Almaviva, Act III) 4.58
Don Giovanni K.527 · Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte,
after Tirso de Molina (El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra)
12 “Deh, vieni alla finestra” (Don Giovanni, Act II) 2.15
Jacques Marmoud mandolin
ANDRÉ MESSAGER 1853–1929
Monsieur Beaucaire · Libretto: Adrian Ross & Frederick Lonsdale,
after Booth Tarkington; adapt. André Rivoire & Pierre Veber
13 “Au jardin où les fleurs sont écloses” (Red Rose) (Beaucaire, Prologue) 3.56
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Die Zauberflöte K.620 · Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder
14 “Papagena! Weibchen! Täubchen! meine Schöne!”… (Papageno · Drei Knaben) 5.16
15 “Pa-pa-ge-na! / Pa-pa-ge-no!” (Papageno · Papagena, Act II) 2.33
Papagena: Elisabeth Boudreault soprano
Drei Knaben: Oliver Barlow, Sam Jackman & Benjamin Gilbert trebles
Laura Fromentin glockenspiel (14)
RICHARD RODGERS 1902–1979
Carousel · Text: Oscar Hammerstein II, after Ferenc Molnár (Liliom)
16 Soliloquy (Billy Bigelow, Act I) 7.29
GUSTAV MAHLER
5 Rückert-Lieder · Texts: Friedrich Rückert
17 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (No.3) 6.45

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Introducing an ambitious debut release, Warner Classics brings you a teriffic album with Baritone Huw Montague Wendell who flexes his extensive variety of talent and style!

‘Contempation’ stretches across three centuries, a journey into the transformation of musical dramas of opera, operetta, lied and Broadway musicals. Joining the stage is Canadian soprano Elisabeth Boudreault in which she and Huw perform a duet from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.