Freezing Emily D'Angelo, Sophia Muñoz, Bruno Helstroffer

• Philip Glass (b. 1937): Freezing (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice, Piano, Guitar and Bass):
• 1 Glass: Freezing (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice, Piano, Guitar and Bass) 03:23
• Jean Ritchie (1922 - 2015): O Love Is Teasing (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar):
• 2 Ritchie: O Love Is Teasing (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) 03:23
• Adrian Ira: Quietly Waiting (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer & Kramer for Voice and Guitar):
• 3 Adrian Ira: Quietly Waiting (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer & Kramer for Voice and Guitar) 02:26
• Arthur Russell (1951 - 1992): Wonder Boy (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar):
• 4 Russell: Wonder Boy (Arr. D'Angelo & Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) 02:32
• Cecilia Livingston: Lullabies:
• 5 Livingston: Lullabies: Snow (Arr. D'Angelo & Niederstadt for Voice, Piano and Guitar) 02:16
• Traditional: Cold Blows the Wind (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice, Synth and Bass):
• 6 Traditional: Cold Blows the Wind (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice, Synth and Bass) 04:12
• Cecilia Livingston: Lullabies:
• 7 Livingston: Lullabies: Silver (Arr. D'Angelo & Niederstadt for Voice, Piano and Guitar) 02:42
• Henry Purcell (d. 1695): O Solitude My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406 (Arr. Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar):
• 8 Purcell: O Solitude My Sweetest Choice, Z. 406 (Arr. Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) 04:36
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626): A Musicall Banquet:
• 9 Dowland: A Musicall Banquet: No. 11, In Darkness Let Me Dwell (Arr. Helstroffer for Voice and Guitar) 04:14
• Jeanine Tesori (b. 1961): Grounded:
• 10 Tesori: Grounded: Night Drive (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice, Piano, Guitar and Double Bass) 02:32
• Zoltán Kodály (1882 - 1967): Esti Dal (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice and Piano):
• 11 Kodály: Esti Dal (Arr. D'Angelo for Voice and Piano) 02:31
• Wayne Jackson Handy (b. 1935): Morning Star (Transcr. Muñoz for Voice and Piano):
• 12 Handy: Morning Star (Transcr. Muñoz for Voice and Piano) 02:30
• Randy Newman (b. 1943): Wandering Boy (Arr. Muñoz for Voice and Piano):
• 13 Newman: Wandering Boy (Arr. Muñoz for Voice and Piano) 03:02
• Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979): The Cloths of Heaven:
• 14 Clarke: The Cloths of Heaven 01:55
• Down by the Salley Gardens:
• 15 Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens 01:31
• Walter MacNutt (1910 - 1996): Take Me to a Green Isle:
• 16 MacNutt: Take Me to a Green Isle 02:03
• Francis McPeake (b. 1885): Wild Mountain Thyme:
• 17 McPeake: Wild Mountain Thyme 01:19
• Total Runtime 47:07

Info for Freezing

Canadian-Italian singer Emily D’Angelo announces her upcoming second solo DG album freezing, which features seventeen songs drawn from folk tradition, art song and beyond. The mezzo-soprano offers a personal take on music that spans five centuries, ranging from songs by John Dowland and Henry Purcell; Rebecca Clarke, Zoltán Kodály, W.C. Handy and Philip Glass; to recent works by Randy Newman, Jeanine Tesori, Cecilia Livingston, “Adrian Ira” Kramer and US band Ween.

The singer’s fascinating dark voice as well as the eloquent arrangements unite these very different pieces into a beautiful, spherical work of art. D’Angelo is joined by Sophia Muñoz (piano), Bruno Helstroffer (electric guitar) and Jonas Niederstadt (bass guitar, synth, percussion) on thirteen of the album tracks.

Emily D'Angelo, soprano
Sophia Muñoz, piano
Bruno Helstroffer, guitar
Jonas Niederstadt, bass guitar, synthesizer
Fridolin Blumer, double bass

Emily D'Angelo
is the first and only vocalist to have been presented with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival. One of WQXR NYC Public Radio’s "40 Under 40" singers to watch, Canada's "Top 30 Under 30" Classical Musicians, and the recipient of a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, D'Angelo has won first prize in opera’s most prestigious international competitions including the Operalia Competition where a historic win included First Prize, the Zarzuela Prize, the Birgit Nilsson Prize, and Audience Prize, as well as the Metropolitan Opera Competition, the Canadian Opera Company Competition, the George London Competition, the Gerda Lissner Competition, the Innsbruck Baroque Competition, and the Monini Prize from the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi. ​

A staple of D’Angelo’s operatic repertoire is the music of Mozart; beginning with a stage debut in 2016 as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi with Maestro James Conlon, D'Angelo has gone on to perform Cherubino at the Berlin Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper; Annio in the 2019 critically acclaimed production of La clemenza di Tito at the Metropolitan Opera; and Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Teatro alla Scala (broadcast live on RAI), the Canadian Opera Company, and the Santa Fe Opera. In 2021 she will make her company and role debut in a new production at The Royal Opera House as Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, and will return to the Bayerische Staatsoper for her role debut as Idamante in a new production of Idomeneo , and the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden as Cherubino in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro (Broadcast live on Mezzo TV). ​

Another cornerstone of D’Angelo’s repertoire is the music of Rossini; D'Angelo made a debut as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Glimmerglass Festival in a new production by Francesca Zambello, and has gone on to perform the role at the Canadian Opera Company, and the Santa Fe Opera. D’Angelo has sung Rossini’s seldom-performed cantata Giovanna d’Arco numerous times in concert, both with the original piano score as well as with full orchestra. She looks forward to adding the title role in Cenerentola to her repertoire in future seasons.

D’Angelo has performed diverse recital repertoire at numerous international venues, including the New York Park Avenue Armory, the Kennedy Center Vocal Arts DC, Chile Teatro del Lago, Athens Stavros Center, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Los Angeles SongFest Recital Series, the New York Morgan Library, Toronto Koerner Hall, the Santa Fe Festival of Song, the Palm Beach Society for the Four Arts, the Princeton University Concert Series, and has appeared in concert with orchestras including Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Puerto Rico San Juan Symphony, Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra, Montclair Orchestra, and National Arts Centre Orchestra. ​

D’Angelo was a featured soloist on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s live-recorded album “Vaughan Williams,” which was Grammy Nominated for Best Classical Compendium 2019, and awarded a JUNO for Best Large Ensemble Classical Album, is featured on the first ever international production of PBS's Live From Lincoln Center which was filmed live from Athens, Greece, with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centre and has been released on DVD/CD as “Odyssey.” D’Angelo can also be seen in various productions live from the Met, including audio recordings of Annio in La clemenza di Tito, Second Lady in The Magic Flute, and the Met Live in HD broadcast as Soeur Mathilde in Dialogues des Carmélites. ​

Toronto-born, D'Angelo is an alumna of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, and the Ravinia Steans Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and a grateful grant recipient of the Jacqueline Desmarais Foundation.

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