John Matthew Myers: Desiderium – Barber • Griffes • Previn • Kander • Weill
5/13/2022, 13 Tracks, 1:04:56
Featuring
John Matthew Myers
Myra Huang
Samuel Barber
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
André Previn
John Kander
Kurt Weill
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Performer Biography
Pianist Myra Huang, who accompanies tenor John Matthew Myers on this album, is a Grammy Award-nominated artist and Head of Music for the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded on November 15 and 17, 2020, at Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, New York.
Album & Artwork
This debut album by tenor John Matthew Myers features American songs that explore themes of isolation, longing, and the search for connection.
Interpretation
Tenor John Matthew Myers views the entire album as a "fragmented arc of a particular person who is, in many ways, on the periphery of his life."
Performer Biography
John Matthew Myers, the tenor on this recording, is half-Chinese and half-Caucasian, and has felt a sense of isolation due to not being fully accepted by one group or another.
Interpretation
The album's repertoire, according to John Matthew Myers, stemmed from Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and explores ideas of yearning, separation, and feeling distant.
Guastavino, López Buchardo: Radio Buenos Aires (Flores Argentinas, Canciones)
Poulenc: Le Coeur en forme de fraise
AWAKENINGS
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Gustav Mahler (Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Rückert-Lieder und Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit) , Daniel Barenboim, Piano
