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Featured Release
Dawn Upshaw
Voices of Light: Music of Messiaen, Debussy, Golijov, and Fauré
Soprano Dawn Upshaw’s first full-length album with accompanist Gilbert Kalish centers on work by Olivier Messiaen that addresses devotion, faith, and love. London’s Independent calls this “a remarkable collection of songs that blurs the edges between sensual and religious transport.”
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Dawn Upshaw
Voices of Light: Music of Messiaen, Debussy, Golijov, and Fauré
Soprano Dawn Upshaw’s first full-length album with accompanist Gilbert Kalish centers on work by Olivier Messiaen that addresses devotion, faith, and love. London’s Independent calls this “a remarkable collection of songs that blurs the edges between sensual and religious transport.”
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Kronos Quartet + Dawn Upshaw
Berg: Lyric Suite
This 2003 Grammy winner for Best Chamber Music Performance, written in 1926 by Austrian Alban Berg, chronicles the married composer’s brief, secret love affair. The Kronos performance, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw, restores a long-lost vocal portion to the piece.
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Dawn Upshaw
Angels Hide Their Faces
For the first time on record, Upshaw interprets the work of Baroque masters J.S. Bach and Henry Purcell. Her performance, says Fortune, "is so fluid, strong, and serene that it acts upon a cluttered cortex like deep-tissue shiatsu."
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Dawn Upshaw
Sings Vernon Duke
The soprano mines the catalogue of Broadway/classical composer Vernon Duke, reviving overlooked works and performing beloved numbers like "Autumn in New York." The Chicago Sun-Times decided, "No one of her generation handles the Great American Songbook with Upshaw's care."
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Dawn Upshaw
The World So Wide
Upshaw presents a program of 20th-century American operatic arias as impressively wide-ranging in its emotional content as in its repertoire choices. The New York Times declared, "The singer's personal magnetism combines with the material to form an irresistible mixture."
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Dawn Upshaw
Sings Rodgers & Hart
Upshaw explores the legacy of Broadway's storied composer team; guests include Audra McDonald and Fred Hersch. The Independent (UK) says “it's invariably charming and stylish, and when she sings about turning Manhattan into 'an isle of joy' it's surprisingly touching.”
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Dawn Upshaw
White Moon: Songs to Morpheus
Dawn Upshaw joins music from four centuries in a collection dedicated to Morpheus, the god of Sleep. From the peaceful realm depicted by Handel and Dowland, to a world of wakefulness and the Moon favored by Schwanter and Crumb, White Moon encompasses both soothing and unsettling aspects of night and sleep.
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Dawn Upshaw
I Wish It So
Upshaw performs lesser-known Broadway repertoire from Leonard Bernstein, Marc Blitzstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Kurt Weill, plus classics like “I Feel Pretty.” Time declared, “Few opera singers have ever seemed so convincing—and comfortable—in the Broadway idiom.”
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Dawn Upshaw + Richard Goode
Goethe Lieder
Soprano Upshaw and pianist Richard Goode perform songs built on texts by German poet Goethe. The Washington Post praised “the inclusion of both Schubert's and Schumann's settings of the exquisite Wandrers Nachtlied and the heartfelt interpretation of Mozart's Das Veitchen."
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Henryk Górecki + Dawn Upshaw
Górecki: Symphony No. 3
One of the most affecting works of the late 20th century, Symphony No. 3, featuring the London Sinfonetta and soprano Dawn Upshaw, proved spellbinding to a diverse international audience. TIME calls it “a transcendental meditation on mortality and redemption.”