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Maury Yeston
December Songs
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Strange
2. December Snow
3. Where Are You Now?
4. Please Let's Not Even Say Hello
5. When Your Love Is New
6. Bookseller In The Rain
7. My Grandmother's Love Letters
8. I Am Longing
9. I Had A Dream About You
10. By The River
11. What A Relief
12. La neige en decembre
13. Ou es tu...
14. Je t'en prie ne dis pas un mot
15. L'amour voit le jour
16. L'homme aux livres sous la pluie
17. Tes lettres d'amour grand mere
18. Je n' attends que d'etre aimee
19. J'ai fait ce reve de nous
20. La riviere
21. Tu peux souffler

CD Details

All Artists: Maury Yeston
Title: December Songs
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: P.S. Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 3/7/2006
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Vocal Pop, Cabaret, Musicals
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 803607063726

Synopsis

Description

From PS Classics, the label that released the Grammy-nominated cast album of Maury Yeston's Nine: The Musical (not to mention the acclaimed Maury Yeston Songbook), comes this new recording of December Songs, Yeston's ravishing retelling of Schubert's Winterreise: part song-cycle, part cabaret piece, part music theatre showstopper. The singer: French-born Isabelle Georges, who performed the work to great acclaim during a three-month engagement at the Theatre du Renard in Paris during the winter of 2004-2005. The album will feature a new orchestration by Larry Hochman (Spamalot, A Class Act, Jane Eyre), and includes the world premiere recording of a new Yeston song, "Strange."

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CD Reviews

Adequate performance, unfortunate orchestration

J. A. Kawarsky | New Hope, PA United States | 04/10/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Oddly strange recording. Very clear voice. Unclear why the English version uses a new orchestration by Larry Hochman, when called for, and the new French translation is needed at all. As for interpretation. Fine. And that's the problem. It's all just fine. No better, no worse.

Better suggestion: The Harolyn Blackwell recording of these with better orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick (Mr. Hochman's make the orchestrational error constantly called "masking" and tis irritating".) Blackwell has beautiful voice and interp. skills. Recording entitled "Strange Hurt" also includes great cycle by Ricky Ian Gordon."

A must

JMB Paris France | Paris France | 04/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Isabelle Georges has a really lovely voice that fits perfectly with Yeston's words and music. The french translation, made by the french poet Boris Bergman is full of poetry, of images that show you the distress of this woman. Stan Cramer plays perfectly the piano. This record is worth 5 stars."

Simple, Beautiful, Haunting

Christopher H. Merrell | Denver, Colorado United States | 02/07/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Song Cycle December Songs.

A beautiful journey.

Haunting and beautiful.

Complex and simple.

Introspective.

Full Bodied and soaring.

Grounding.

Emotional.

-- Chris Merrell"