My Secret Heart / Ben Heppner
With his 1999 Met triumph as Tristan--the most taxing of all Wagner's tenor roles--Canadian singer Ben Heppner has fully earned his heralded position as the great new Heldentenor of our time. His Lohengrin is a signature role, while his album German Romantic Opera has been nominated for a Grammy. Yet Heppner also commands tremendous versatility--and of a much more engaging character than that of the typical crossover effort--using his powerful, bronze-tinged tenor to tender and charming effect in My Secret Heart. This is a collection of songs roughly from the period between the two world wars, when music began to reach mass audiences via radio and screen. Many of these are almost forgotten gems--emblems of a vanished era--but once had wide cultural currency: the World War II hit "We'll Gather Lilacs, " the radio show Family Hour's theme tune "Let My Song Fill Your Heart, " and the oft-recorded 1919 ballad "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise. " Heppner, with his sturdy beauty of tone and sweet, natural-sounding vibrato, breathes new life into this genre. He handles the idiom's unabashed schmaltz with charm and brings a lilting urbanity to two Noël Coward tunes, with especially bittersweet refinement in "I'll Follow My Secret Heart. " --Thomas May Binding Audio CD. Artist(s): Ben Heppner. Publisher(s): Sony Music Canada. Label: Sony Music Canada.
| Fabricant: | Sony Music Canada Inc. |
| Numéro de la pièce: | 090266350827 |
| Prix le plus bas (CAD): | 9,97 $ |
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| Artist : | Ben Heppner |
| Marque : | Sony Music Canada |
| music_track : | I'll Follow My Secret Heart |
