Our recital features some opera favorites from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette and Faust as well as Verdi‘s Rigoletto. Soprano Lindsey Reynolds will be heard in André Previn’s moving Three Dickinson Songs — which was inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson — as well as music from the musical Cabaret. Bass Wm. Clay Thompson will be featured in John Jacob Niles’s American Folk and Gambling Songs — a collection of music from the early 20th century — as well songs from Viktor Ullman’s Liederbuch des Hafis. They will be joined on the piano by Chris Reynolds and Donald Lee III.
Soprano Lindsey Reynolds, Bass Wm. Clay Thompson, Pianists Chris Reynolds and Donald Lee III
Playlist
“Je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette, by Charles Gounod
Lindsey Reynolds, soprano; Chris Reynolds, piano
“Le veau d’or” from Faust, by Charles Gounod
Wm. Clay Thompson, bass; Donald Lee III, piano
“Tutte le feste al tempio” from Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi
Lindsey Reynolds, soprano; Chris Reynolds, piano
Liederbuch des Hafis, Op. 30, by Viktor Ullmann
I. Vorausbestimmung
II. Betrunken
III. Unwiderstehliche Schönheit
IV. Lob des Weines
Wm. Clay Thompson, bass; Donald Lee III, piano
Three Dickinson Songs, by André Previn
I. As imperceptibly as grief
II. Will there really be a morning?
III. Good morning midnight
Lindsey Reynolds, soprano; Chris Reynolds, piano
American Folk and Gambling Songs, by John Jacob Niles
“Gambler, Don’t Lose Your Place”
“Gambler’s Song of the Big Sandy River”
“The Gambler’s Lament”
“The Gambler’s Wife”
“The Rovin’ Gambler”
Wm. Clay Thompson, bass; Donald Lee III, piano
“Humoresque” from Lyric Suite, by Robert L. Morris
“I Don’t Care Much” from Cabaret, by John Kander
Lindsey Reynolds, soprano; Chris Reynolds, piano