Favourites, Vol. 1 | 
 enlarge | Creators: Anonymous, Ernest R. Ball, Irving Berlin, Frederick Nicholls Crouch, Hart Pease Danks, David Henderson, William Kernell, Raymond Loughborough, Dermot Macmurrough, Charles Marshall, James Lyman Molloy, Ethelbert Nevin, John Francis Patterson, Blanche Ebert Seaver, Nathaniel Shilkret, Irish Traditional, Haydn Wood, Amy Woodforde-finden, Josef A. Pasternack, Lawrance Collingwood
Label: Naxos
Category: Music
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 138163
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 636943250426
EAN: 0636943250426
ASIN: B00004YYW7
Release Date: February 20, 2001
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Condition: sealed
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| Tracks:
| • | The Kerry Dance - John McCormack, Molloy | | • | The Rose of Tralee - John McCormack, Spencer | | • | A Pair of Blue Eyes - John McCormack, Kernell, William | | • | The Garden Where the Praties Grow - John McCormack, Traditional | | • | I Hear You Calling Me - John McCormack, Harford, H. | | • | Sonny Boy - John McCormack, Jolson, Al | | • | Wearing of the Green - John McCormack, Traditional | | • | Silver Threads Among the Gold - John McCormack, Rexford, Daxe | | • | Roses of Picardy - John McCormack, Weatherly | | • | When Irish Eyes Are Smiling - John McCormack, Ball, Ernest | | • | Little Boy Blue - John McCormack, Field, Eugene | | • | All Alone - John McCormack, Berlin, Irving | | • | No. 3, Kashmiri Song - John McCormack, | | • | Macushla - John McCormack, Rowe | | • | Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time) - John McCormack, Gilbert, L. Wolfe | | • | Kathleen Mavourneen - John McCormack, Crawford | | • | Just for Today - John McCormack, Partridge | | • | Ireland, Mother Ireland - John McCormack, O'Reilly, P.J. |
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| Customer Reviews:
An interpreter's magic that is spell-binding. April 13, 2001
John Austin (Kangaroo Ground, Australia)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
Here is a welcome to a "Nostalgia" series by Naxos, and a welcome into the 21st Century to the great Irish tenor John McCormack. Younger shoppers may not be familiar with this remarkable singer who once rivalled Caruso in the recording popularity stakes. Blessed with the naturally beautiful voice and the secure breath control that any singer might envy, McCormack had the additional ability to communicate directly and memorably and vividly. He polished and perfected his inimitably Irish diction until he felt confident that every listener in the largest auditorium could hear and understand every word. Feeling he had no flair for foreign languages or for acting, he retired early from the operatic stage, but not before he had made recordings of several Mozart and Handel arias that have remained models ever since. Some of his recordings of lieder by Hugo Wolf, moreover, can still send shivers down the spine. This CD of "Favourites" provides songs he recorded between 1912 and 1940. The sentiments may be passe (patriotism, nostalgia, piety, the praise of women and the sorrow of parting) but the sincerity and charm transcend fashion. There is also an interpreter's magic evident in the dramatic monologue "Kathleeen Mavourneen" and the jaunty recounting of what happened in "The Garden Where the Praties Grow" that is spell-binding.
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