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Stanley Cornett, tenor : Make Someone Happy
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Consistently praised by the press for his beauty of tone and elegant style, this silvery tenor emanates through a retrospective montage of live recordings in concert, recital, and opera. 2-CD Set.
Genre: Classical: Oratorios
Release Date: 2007
Make Someone Happy
Stanley Cornett, tenor
Record Label: Stanley Cornett,
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1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide 6:22 Album Only
2. Turina: Poema en forma de. . . Dedicatoria 2:33 Album Only
3. Joaquin Turina: Nunca olvida 1:58 Album Only
4. Joaquin Turina: Cantares 2:02 Album Only
5. Turina: Los dos miedos 2:54 Album Only
6. Turina: Las locas por amor 1:27 Album Only
7. Foss: A Parable of Death: Sing the lovers 4:33 Album Only
8. Lucas Foss: Tears rising to drown me 4:05 Album Only
9. Lucas Foss: World beloved 5:03 Album Only
10. Mendelssohn: Elijah: If with all your hearts 4:00 Album Only
11. Mendelssohn: Then shall the righteous shine 2:56 Album Only
12. J.S. Bach: Magnificat: Deposuit potentes 2:27 Album Only
13. Giuseppe Sarti: Ti lascio al ben ch'adoro 5:12 Album Only
14. G. F. Handel: Alexander's Feast: Happy pair 2:43 Album Only
15. G.F. Handel: War, he sung, is toil and trouble 4:50 Album Only
16. G.F. Handel: Now strike the golden lyre 1:31 Album Only
17. G.F. Handel: Hark, hark! The horrid sound 1:19 Album Only
18. Jule Styne: Make someone happy 3:21 Album Only
19. Britten: The Turn of the Screw: Prologue 4:36 Album Only
20. Benjamin Britten: Turn of the Screw: At Night 9:02 Album Only
21. Benjamin Britten: Colloquy and Soliloquy 3:50 Album Only
22. Benjamin Britten: Turn of the Screw: Quint 2:17 Album Only
23. Robert Schumann: Der Kontrabandiste 1:42 Album Only
24. Robert Schumann: Zigeunerliedchen I 1:08 Album Only
25. Robert Schumann: Zigeunerliedchen II 1:50 Album Only
26. Schumann: Tief im Herzen trag' ich Pein 2:48 Album Only
27. Schumann: O wie lieblich ist das Maedchen 1:41 Album Only
28. Henry Purcell: I'll sail upon the Dog-star 1:23 Album Only
29. Henry Purcell: Sweeter than Roses 3:51 Album Only
30. Argento: Letters from Composers: Schubert 4:22 Album Only
31. Argento: Letters: Bach to the Town Council 3:11 Album Only
32. Argento: Letters from Composers: Puccini 2:38 Album Only
33. Benjamin Britten: War Requiem: Agnus Dei 3:08 Album Only
34. G.F. Handel: Messiah: Comfort ye 3:28 Album Only
35. G. F. Handel: Messiah: Every valley 3:36 Album Only
36. J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion: O Schmerz! 8:01 Album Only
37. Bach: St. Matthew: Ich will bei meinem Jesu 0:53 Album Only
38. J.S. Bach: St Matthew: Mein Jesus schweigt 1:11 Album Only
39. J.S. Bach: St .Matthew Passion: Geduld! 4:08 Album Only
40. Schubert: Stabat Mater: Ach, was haetten wir 2:31 Album Only
41. Percy Grainger: Brigg Fair 3:50 Album Only
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Baltimore Sun Newspaper Review: 01.08.2008

Local Artists on CD

Arriving in a DVD-sized package is a two-CD set from tenor Stanley Cornett called Make Someone Happy (self-produced, available at select local retailers). Cornett, a longtime Peabody faculty member, has put together a remarkably diverse souvenir of his live performances from the 1980’s and ’90’s, made in various locations and with varying recording quality (occasionally with annoying fade-outs).
There is some highly accomplished singing here –- a chilling portrait of the malevolent Quint in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and a poignant account of the Agnus Dei from that composer’s War Requiem; a sweetly phrased Adelaide by Beethoven and vivid interpretations of art songs by Schubert and Turina; impeccably stylish arias from Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Mendelssohn’s Elijah.
Cornett’s incisive touch gives just about everything here a distinctive quality, whether in such fascinating rarities as Dominic Argento’s Letters from Composers or in an unexpected show tune, the one by Jule Styne that gives the collection its title. Listening to these performances sure made me happy.

--Tim Smith

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