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Nightingale: Japanese Art Songs
Sadao Bekku, Ikuma Dan, Shiro Fukai
Nightingale: Japanese Art Songs
Genres: Pop, Classical
 
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All Artists: Sadao Bekku, Ikuma Dan, Shiro Fukai, Fumio Hayasaka, Hikaru Hayashi, Yoshinao Nakada, Kosaku Yamada, Yoshikazu Mera, Kikuko Ogura
Title: Nightingale: Japanese Art Songs
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 1
Label: Bis
Release Date: 8/7/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 789368592425, 7318590008898
 

CD Reviews

The travails of life melt away listening to "Nightingale."
03/01/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Yoshikazu Mera, the counter-tenor from Japan, is, perhaps, the finest classical voice I have ever heard. Now, I say "classical voice" as if I knew what I was talking about but here is what I mean: when it comes to a singer, male or female, interpreting the works of Strauss, Handel, Bach, etc., there is no finer counter-tenor in the world than Mera in my humble opinion. His command of his vocal cords is so precise and so hauntingly consistent that I have been spiritually transported to places I have never been before thanks to this man's incredible gift for nailing down notes with precision and grace. I wish the President of the United States would showcase this man's work at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts because then America could become familiar with the world-class counter-tenor we simply know as Yoshikazu Mera. He would, I believe, leave everyone who heard him in person bereft of words and filled, to the brim, with awe. I wish my words were as eloquent as his voice but they are not so you will just have to get a copy of this excellent CD and what I consider to be the companion piece, "Romance." Happy listening!!"
Haunting
01/18/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"When I first heard Mera, I was taken aback by the quality of his voice. A sampler disc arrived with a Gramophone magazine and it took me some time to get around to listening to it, thinking that he was "just another counter-tenor". However, it became apparent very quickly that Yoshikazu Mera is not "just another counter-tenor". His voice floats, it soars. It is haunting, sometimes it seems to come from another world. I have also listened to his Baroque recordings, but this disc (as well as the recent "Romance") sets Mera apart from the other counter-tenors. The material on "Nightingale" is very evocative and Mera paints beautiful pictures with the shadings in his voice."
Very mellow voice
superwt@cam.org | Montreal, http://www.cam.org/~superwt/ | 01/15/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Yoshikazu Mera has a really mellow and well-trained voice, it sounds between alto and mezzo-soprano. His voice is much more mellow than Klaus Nomi's (80's new wave artist), it's obviously worth to own this CD if you're opera fans (especially japanese opera)!"