The highly sought-after concert soloist, soprano Michelle Areyzaga is Oliver’s guest. One of the foremost interpreters of art song, Ms. Areyzaga has curated this week’s playlist of American art song, emphasizing composers with ties to Chicago and texts by women poets. Many of these selections come from the new album Were I With Thee a collaboration with pianist Dana Brown.
On Women Poets and Composers with Michelle Areyzaga
Michelle Areyzaga and Dana Brown (Photo: Elliot Mandel)
Playlist
Edouard Lippé: How Do I Love Thee
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Dana Brown, piano
Were I With Thee
4Tay CD-4066
Richard Pearson Thomas: At Last, To Be Indentified!
III. “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!”
IV. “I Never Saw a Moor”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Dana Brown, piano
Were I With Thee
4Tay CD-4066
Lucy Simon: “Come to My Garden” from The Secret Garden
Mario Lagios, soprano
Dalton Baldwin, piano
Songs from the Garden
Stacy Garrop: My Dearest Ruth
Patrice Michaels, soprano
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Notorious RBG in Song
Cedille Records CDR 90000 178
Lita Grier: Five Songs from “A Shropshire Lad”
I. “Oh, when I was in love with you”
V. “When I was one-and-twenty”
Robert Sims, baritone
William Billingham, piano
Songs from Spoon River, Reflections of a Peacemaker, and Other Vocal Music by Lita Grier
Cedille Records CDR 90000 112
Lita Grier: Songs from Spoon River
II. “Sarah Brown”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Welz Kauffman, piano
Songs from Spoon River, Reflections of a Peacemaker, and Other Vocal Music by Lita Grier
Cedille Records CDR 90000 112
Gwyneth Walker: The Promised Land
IV. “Walk on Up to Heaven”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Evanston Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Eckerling, conductor
Evanston Symphony LIVE!
Gwyneth Walker: The Sun is Love
VI. “A Waterbird (Flying into the Sun)”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Jamie Shaak, piano
The Sun is Love
Proteus 0015
Wayland Rogers: Tres Poemas de Gabriela Mistral
III. “Apegado a mí”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Dana Brown, piano
Were I With Thee
4Tay CD-4066
Wayland Rogers: I-Thou
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Dana Brown, piano
Were I With Thee
4Tay CD-4066
Gwyneth Walker: Emily! (from New England)
VII. “All I Have to Bring”
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
Dana Brown, piano
Were I With Thee
4Tay CD-4066