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Opus Classico
Label: Petrobras
Released: 2014
Track listing: Vocalise; Iluminada/Balada en
Sol Menor No. 1; O Trenzinho do
Caipira; Ária das Bachianas
Brasileiras No. 5; Prelúdio de
Solidão/ Prelúdio No. 3; Corpo e
Luz/ Ária de ópera Tristão e
Isolda; Adagio do 'Concierto de
Aranjuez'; Pavane; The Lamp is
Low/Pavane; As Pombas;
Coração Triste; Modinha; O
Canto do Pajé; Stranger in
Paradise/Danças
Polovtzianas/My Reverie.
Ithamara Koorax: Opus Classico
by Chris M. Slawecki
Throughout her career, Ithamara Koorax has consistently exercised a singing voice that approaches the eternal; Ira Gitler once famously described Koorax's singing as “celestial elegance." On Opus Clássico, that amazing voice finds material to match: Vocal and vocalized melodies written by such master composers as Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Sergie Rachmaninoff and Heitor Villa-Lobos, lovingly and ...
Raising Vision and Voice
by Chris M. Slawecki
Decades ago, Archie Shepp and Sun Ra were among the first musicians to expand their vision for the human voice beyond the traditional verse-chorus-verse song structure. Today, through digital sampling and other technology, musicians incorporate and manipulate the human voice in ways that even these two iconoclasts might not recognize. At the same time, the profound ...
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Ithamara Koorax: Celestial Elegance
by Chris M. Slawecki
Singer thamara Koorax recorded her 15th solo CD, Got to Be Real (Irma, 2012), “live in the studio" in Rio de Janeiro, the place of her birth, with her touring band--bassist Jorge Pescara, drummer Haroldo Jobim (a cousin of Antonio Carlos Jobim) and keyboardist Jose Roberto Bertrami, founding member of Brazil's famous fusion export Azymuth, on ...
