Listen & tracks
11 works · 38:51
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1 Panis Angelicus César Franck 3:42
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2 Perfect Day Colin Towns 3:32
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3 Edelweiss Richard Rodgers 3:09
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4 Walking in the Air Howard Blake 4:09
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5 Pie Jesu Andrew Lloyd Webber 3:18
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6 All I Ask of You Andrew Lloyd Webber 3:33
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7 When She Loved Me Randy Newman 3:47
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8 Where Is Love Lionel Bart 3:01
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9 Suo Gân Welsh Traditional 3:28
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10 Ave Maria Vladimir Vavilov 4:25
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11 Inch Worm Frank Loesser 2:47
Dream Song is Danielle Matthews’s debut classical album. Fantasy, fairy tales and childhood memory set the tone for a programme meant to carry the listener into the imagery of each song.
From Perfect Day, the theme to The Tales of Beatrix Potter, to Walking in the Air from the Christmas film The Snowman, the disc moves through beloved standards: Edelweiss, Where Is Love, and the pure line of Ave Maria, Panis Angelicus and Pie Jesu.
It is a peaceful, reflective and colourful hour. Danielle invites you into that world and hopes you enjoy it as much as she does.
Artists
Danielle Matthews
soprano
Danielle Matthews is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and the inaugural winner of the prestigious Rob Guest Endowment Award.
Lionel Bart
composer
Lionel Bart wrote the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!, the Dickens musical whose songs have long outlived the West End run. He also penned hit pop numbers and other stage scores that helped shape postwar British musical theatre.
César Franck
composer
César Franck’s music carries the weight and colour of the Romantic organ loft into symphony, chamber music and song. The Violin Sonata, Symphony in D minor, organ Chorales and Pièce héroïque, and the serene Panis angelicus remain central to the repertoire he shaped.
Oscar Hammerstein II
composer
Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the words that made the American musical a story-first art: books and lyrics for Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, songs built for character, courage and lasting melody.
Frank Loesser
composer
Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics that still light up stages and standards books: sharp, singable Broadway scores and film songs whose wit and warmth keep turning up in jazz rooms and recital programmes alike.
Richard Rodgers
composer
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) was an American composer of musical theatre whose songs became standards of the twentieth-century stage and screen. Over five decades he wrote more than nine hundred songs and dozens of Broadway musicals.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
composer
Andrew Lloyd Webber writes musical theatre that lodges in the ear and stays there: soaring ballads, rock-inflected biblical retellings, and scores that turn novels and poems into long-running stage worlds.
Howard Blake
composer
Randy Newman
composer
Randy Newman is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and film composer. He is known for satirical character songs, often sung in a Southern accent, and for a later career given over to film scoring.
Colin Towns
composer
Vladimir Vavilov
composer
Vladimir Vavilov's melodies travel widely under borrowed Renaissance and Baroque names. The lyrical Ave Maria long credited to Caccini is his, a serene line that sits naturally in song and in arrangements for trumpet and organ.
Performers
- Danielle Matthews · soprano
- Adam Przewlocki · piano
- Dr. Jonathan Welch · tenor · track 6
- Declan Francis Boyd · singer · track 11
- Jesse Buckley Dann · singer · track 5
- Christian Meyer · track 3
- Jedda Wignall · track 3
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 38 minutes 51 seconds
- Release date
- Nov 2013
- Category
- Classical
- Genres
- Vocal & Opera, Stage & Screen
- Musical work copyright
- © Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2013 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MCD 496
- EAN
- 9314574049626
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