AMAIZE SINGS
Beethoven, Loewe,
Shostakovich & Mussorgsky

Odekhiren Amaize
BASS-BARITONE

DAVID KOREVAAR PIANO

MS1101   ~   $14.95

"Ode has a natural affinity for the bleak, ruminative atmosphere of these songs, building inexorable intensity...David Korevaar provides characterful support throughout"
The Gramophone - November 2005

"There's a real musical personality at work here...for Amaize sings with expressive verve and a palpable love for the repertoire....I admire the musical heart that is beating here..."
American Record Guide - July/August 2005

"[Amaize's performance of Shostakovich's Op.62 settings evoked] a real sense of atmosphere...I relished the long, unfolding lines... through the final number in Mussorgsky's Sunless Cycle"
Fanfare - May/June 2005

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Odekhiren Amaize, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born in Nigeria. He began formal vocal training at the University of Texas and continued at Indiana University, as well as at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia. He was a Fellow at Opera Music Theater International, performing and studying under Jerome Hines, and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Moscow.  Known to his colleagues as Ode, the bass-baritone has performed internationally in recitals of art songs. 

 

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Six Songs of Gellert, Op.48 Nos.1-6 CARL LOEWE Erlkonig, Op.1 No.3 Tom der Reimer, Op.135a DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Four Romances to words by Pushkin, Op.46 Six Songs to Verses by English Poets, Op.62 MODESTE MUSSORGSKY Sunless Cycle *  *  *  ALSO AVAILABLE: Pora! Russian Romances by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov The Negro Speaks of Rivers Art Songs by African-American Composers Adams, Bonds, Brown, Moore, Owens, Perkinsen, Walker, Price, Swanson, & Work  10 Shakespeare Sonnetts Russian Romances by Kabalevsky, Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, Malashkin, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Rubinstein, Sheremetiev, & Sviridov