Valer Sabadus, Spark – Closer to Paradise (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:01 minutes | 605 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Berlin Classics
On their new album “Closer to Paradise” Spark, the Classical Band, form a unique partnership with the internationally acclaimed countertenor Valer Sabadus to produce, in musical form, a feeling of longing, that wonderful, painful yet bitter-sweet emotional state ’twixt melancholy and happiness. The spectrum of works ranges from the classical masters such as Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie and Kurt Weill through to French chansonnier Leo Ferré, Italian cantautore Lucio Dalla, American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, British synth-rock-group Depeche Mode and the German cult band Rammstein. Rounded off with some compositions by the Spark musicians themselves, the pieces blend into an aural study of emotions, the fruit of an exciting musical collaboration and a consistently thrilling recording project.
Tracklist:
01. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Koschitzki: Closer to Paradise (05:15)
02. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Satie: Les anges (From “Trois Mélodies”) (02:16)
03. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Ritter, Vivaldi: Sinfonia (Ouverture from “Giustino”, RV 717) (02:43)
04. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Vivaldi: Vedrò con mio diletto (From “Giustino”, RV 717) (04:43)
05. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Ritter: Intermezzo (01:32)
06. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Gore: One Caress (03:33)
07. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Riedel: Seemann (05:03)
08. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Fritz: Grazia (02:01)
09. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Dalla: Caruso (06:57)
10. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Weill: Youkali (From “Marie Galante”) (06:28)
11. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Ferré: Écoutez la chanson bien douce (02:38)
12. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Schumann: In der Fremde (From Liederkreis, Op. 39) (02:41)
13. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Fauré: Au bord de l’eau (02:01)
14. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Ritter: Closer (02:00)
15. Valer Sabadus & Spark – Manilow: Could it be Magic (05:05)
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