Susan Graham - At Carnegie Hall

Susan Graham At Carnegie Hall / Graham, Martineau, Composer: Claude Debussy, Alban Berg, Francis Poulenc, André Messager, Performer: Susan Graham, Malcolm Martineau, I remember the first time I heard Susan Graham. I was doing the dishes, listening to a live broadcast (the Detroit Symphony maybe?) and she was singing Mahler, or Strauss... anyway, it doesn't really matter; what matters is that voice. From the minute I turned the radio on to the time the broadcast ended, maybe 45 minutes later, I stood there, mouth agape, with my hands turning prune like in the dishwater. That voice, that quick vibrato, that earthy tone, the color of café au lait: it goes down so easy you want it never to stop. And on a new release from Erato, recorded live at Carnegie Hall, it darn near doesn't. Graham rounds out a rich program of songs by Brahms, Debussy and Berg with a bevy of encores, some culled from the super mezzo's studio releases, for an hour or so of astounding music-making.

1) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
2) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
3) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
4) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
5) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
6) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
7) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
8) Zigeunerlieder Op.103
9) Proses Lyriques
10) Proses Lyriques
11) Proses Lyriques
12) Proses Lyriques
13) Seven Early Songs
14) Seven Early Songs
15) Seven Early Songs
16) Seven Early Songs
17) Seven Early Songs
18) Seven Early Songs
19) Seven Early Songs
20) Quatre Poemes de Guillaume Appollinaire
21) Quatre Poemes de Guillaume Appollinaire
22) Quatre Poemes de Guillaume Appollinaire
23) Quatre Poemes de Guillaume Appollinaire
24) Vois-Tu Je M'en Veux (Les P'tites Michu)
25) J'ai Deux Amants (L'amour Masque)
26) C'est Ca la Vie C'est Ca L'amour (Toi C'est Moi)
27) A Chloris
28) Fantoches
29) Liebst Du Um Schonheit (Ruckertlieder)
30) Sexy Lady