The Faces of Love - The Songs of Jake Heggie

The Faces of Love - The Songs of Jake Heggie
Studio album
Released 1999
Label RCA

The Faces of Love - The Songs of Jake Heggie is a 1999 album of classical songs composed by Jake Heggie with the composer as piano accompanist to an invited cast of classical singers, and cellist Emil Miland.[1] BMG/RCA Victor 63484.[2] The songs are selected from among the printed music The Faces of Love I - III, Song Collections (1999).[3]

Track listing

  1. The Faces of Love: I shall not live in vain (poems by Emily Dickinson), performed by Renée Fleming
  2. Even (texts by Philip Littell) Sylvia McNair
  3. Listen
  4. Eve-Song: Snake
  5. Of Gods and Cats: In the Beginning (Gavin Geoffrey Dillard) Jennifer Larmore
  6. Of Gods and Cats: Once Upon a Universe
  7. Bedtime Story Frederica von Stade
  8. Paper Wings: Paper Wings (texts by Frederica von Stade) sung by Frederica von Stade
  9. Paper Wings: Mitten Smitten
  10. Paper Wings: A Route to the Sky
  11. Natural Selection: Animal Passion (texts by Gini Savage) sung by Nicolle Foland
  12. Natural Selection: Alas! Alack!
  13. Natural Selection: Joy Alone (Connection)
  14. Before the Storm: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Edna St. Vincent Millay) sung by Zheng Cao
  15. If you were coming in the Fall (The Faces of Love Emily Dickinson) sung by Kristin Clayton and Carol Vaness
  16. As well as Jesus?
  17. It makes no difference abroad
  18. Encountertenor: Countertenor’s Conundrum (John Holt) Brian Asawa
  19. Encountertenor: The trouble with trebles in trousers…
  20. Dixie (traditional) Jennifer Larmore
  21. Songs to the Moon: Once More – To Gloriana (texts by Vachel Lindsay) sung by Frederica von Stade
  22. Songs to the Moon: Euclid
  23. Songs to the Moon: The Haughty Snail King
  24. Songs to the Moon: What the Gray-Winged Fairy Said
  25. My True Love Hath My Heart (Sir Philip Sidney) Sylvia McNair
  26. Encore: Sophie’s Song (von Stade) Jennifer Larmore

References

  1. ↑ Chicago Tribune. Jake Heggie: The Faces of Love Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Jennifer Larmore, Frederica von Stade, Carol Vaness, Brian Asawa, other singers; Heggie, piano (RCA Red Seal).
  2. ↑ The Advocate Oct 10, 2000 - Page 60 "Last year his first CD, The Faces of Love, a collection of art songs performed by Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair, Carol Vaness, and others, was released."
  3. ↑ Recent American Art Song: A Guide Keith E. Clifton - 2008- Page 75 0810862107 "Jake Heggie began composition studies at age 17 with Ernst Bacon. He later studied at the Paris Conservatory ... His growing song output includes a three-volume set titled The Faces of Love. His works have been performed and championed by major singers such as Renee Fleming, Carol Vaness, and ..."


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