Listen & tracks
18 works · 70:32
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1 Hallelujah Leonard Cohen 3:56
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2 La vie en rose Louis Guglielmi 4:35
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3 I Heard You Singing Eric Coates 3:05
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4 Fields of Gold Sting 4:04
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5 Poisoning Pigeons in the Park Tom Lehrer 2:35
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6 Bring Him Home Claude-Michel Schönberg 3:21
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7 I Dreamed a Dream Claude-Michel Schönberg 3:22
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8 No One Is Alone Stephen Sondheim 2:52
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9 Lily's Eyes Lucy Simon 3:20
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10 Stars and Moon Jason Robert Brown 4:36
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11 The Prayer Carole Bayer Sager 4:12
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12 The Music of the Night Andrew Lloyd Webber 3:56
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13 Ballade No. 1 Frédéric Chopin 6:03
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14 One Fine Day Giacomo Puccini 4:56
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15 In the Depths of the Temple Georges Bizet 4:02
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16 O Silver Moon Antonín Dvořák 4:33
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17 You'll Never Walk Alone Richard Rodgers 4:02
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18 Nessun dorma Giacomo Puccini 3:02
The songs tell simple and epic stories of love, loss, hope, courage, mystery and madness. From silver moons to fields of gold, pigeons to phantoms, Puccini to Sting, darkness to light … There is music to open your heart, touch your soul and stir your senses … a true pot-pourri which blends contemporary classics, a touch of opera, a dash of Broadway and lashings of the best music ever written.
Highlights include stunning arrangements of Cohen’s Hallelujah and Sting’s Fields of Gold, songs from Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods, Carousel, Madama Butterfly, The Pearl Fishers, Turandot and unique gems such as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and Stars and Moon.
Silver was launched at a major concert at Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday 27 November 2011. Pot-Pourri also presented national and international concerts and performances at a range of special events throughout 2012.
Artists
Pot-Pourri
ensemble
Melbourne vocal ensemble Pot-Pourri blends opera, music theatre, cabaret, comedy and a touch of didgeridoo into accessible live shows and recordings. Formed in 1987, the group has toured widely in Australia and overseas.
Frédéric Chopin
composer
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period. He wrote almost exclusively for the piano and remains one of its defining poetic voices.
Antonín Dvořák
composer
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) was a Czech composer whose music fused the folk rhythms and melodies of Bohemia and Moravia with the Romantic symphonic tradition, earning lasting international renown.
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.
Giacomo Puccini
composer
Puccini’s operas live on melody that climbs and breaks, on love, jealousy and sacrifice drawn with verismo heat. La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot still fill houses because the drama is already inside the tune.
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.
Stephen Sondheim
composer
Stephen Sondheim wrote music and lyrics that pushed the American musical into darker, more ambivalent territory. His songs move with intricate craft: sharp rhymes, restless harmony, and melodies that catch at regret, wit and longing.
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.
Giuseppe Adami
composer
Harry Rodney Bennett
composer
Georges Bizet
composer
Georges Bizet wrote French Romantic opera that still lives through melody and theatrical colour. Carmen’s street energy and fatal passion, and the lyric duets of Les pêcheurs de perles, are the scores most often heard today.
Alain Boublil
composer
Alain Boublil (born 1941) is a French musical-theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for the book and lyrics of Les Misérables and other internationally staged musicals.
Richard Brown
composer
Richard Brown is a musical director and arranger who has served as musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Jason Robert Brown
composer
Michel Carré
composer
Eric Coates
composer
Eric Coates wrote English light music of strong melody and colourful orchestration: suites and marches with foot-tapping rhythm, waltzes such as By the Sleepy Lagoon, and ballads that still appear in song recitals.
Leonard Cohen
composer
Leonard Cohen wrote songs of love, loss, faith and betrayal in spare, hymn-like lines that singers keep returning to. On these recordings Hallelujah and Famous Blue Raincoat sit beside early music and theatre, treated as chamber and art-song repertoire.
Eugène Cormon
composer
David Foster
composer
Giuseppe Giacosa
composer
Louis Guglielmi
composer
Louiguy wrote the melody for Édith Piaf’s La Vie en rose and the 1950 tune Cerisier rose et pommier blanc, famous in English as Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White. He also scored nearly three dozen films.
Charles Hart
composer
Luigi Illica
composer
Herbert Kretzmer
composer
Jaroslav Kvapil
composer
Tom Lehrer
composer
Kathleen McGuire
composer
Kathleen McGuire is an Australian conductor, arranger and composer, born in Melbourne in 1965. On this label she is represented by vocal arrangements of popular song and music theatre.
Marsha Norman
composer
Édith Piaf
composer
Édith Piaf wrote and performed modern French chanson and cabaret songs that turn love, loss and regret into plain, unforgettable statements. Her lyrics for Hymne à l'amour and La Vie en rose still carry the force of lived feeling.
Carole Bayer Sager
composer
Claude-Michel Schönberg
composer
Lucy Simon
composer
Renato Simoni
composer
Sting
composer
Sting's songs move between rock, jazz, reggae and intimate ballad writing. Fragile and Fields of Gold have become standards beyond pop, taken up by classical and crossover players in fresh arrangements.
Performers
- Pot-Pourri · ensemble
- Stefan Cassomenos · piano · tracks 2, 5 and 10
- David McSkimming · piano · track 3
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 70 minutes 32 seconds
- Release date
- Oct 2011
- Category
- Vocal
- Genres
- Vocal & Opera, Stage & Screen
- Musical work copyright
- © 2011 Pot-Pourri
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2011 Pot-Pourri
- Catalogue
- MCD 459
- EAN
- 9314574045925
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