℗ 1986 Angel Records
| Released | July 21, 2023 |
| Originated | 1986 |
| Duration | 44m 18s |
| Record Label | Universal Music Australia Pty. |
| Genre | Classical |
Pleasures of their Company (Kathleen Battle Edition, Vol. 11)
Kathleen Battle, Christopher Parkening
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
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1.1
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Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Dow Invite
John Dowland; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:21 | |||
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1.2
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Allemande (Arr. Parkening)
John Dowland; Christopher Parkening |
1:40 | |||
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1.3
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What If I Never Speed?
John Dowland; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:20 | |||
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1.4
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Galliard
John Dowland; Christopher Parkening |
1:11 | |||
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1.5
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Fine Knacks For Ladies
John Dowland; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:34 | |||
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Ave Maria, CG 89a (After J.S. Bach
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1.6
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Prelude in C Major, BWV 846)
Charles Gounod; Traditional; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:40 | |||
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1.7
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Aria (From “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5”)
Heitor Villa-Lobos; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
5:27 | |||
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1.8
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La Maja de Goya (From “Coleccion de Tonadillas”)
Enrique Granados; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
3:54 | |||
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1.9
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Boi-Bumba
Waldemar Henrique; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:39 | |||
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1.10
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Azulao
Jayme Ovalle; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:30 | |||
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1.11
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Para Ninar
Paurillo Barroso; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:14 | |||
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1.12
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Cancion
Manuel de Falla; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:09 | |||
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1.13
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Nana
Manuel de Falla; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:38 | |||
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1.14
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Seguidilla Murciana
Manuel de Falla; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:18 | |||
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1.15
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Ain't Got Time To Die
Hall Johnson; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:33 | |||
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1.16
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Lord, I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
Traditional; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:25 | |||
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1.17
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Ain't That Good News!
William Dawson; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
1:14 | |||
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1.18
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Sweet Little Jesus Boy
Robert MacGimsey; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
3:26 | |||
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1.19
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This Little Light Of Mine (Remastered)
Traditional; Kathleen Battle; Barbara Hendricks; Florence Quivar |
2:05 | |||
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1.20
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Ride On, King Jesus!
Hall Johnson; Kathleen Battle; Christopher Parkening |
2:00 | |||
Kathleen Battle enraptured opera audiences of the 1980s and 1990s. Here was a lyric soprano combining unsurpassable beauty of tone with a keen musical intelligence, a way with words and a communicative warmth that drew listeners to Strauss and spirituals alike. She has the easy phrasing of a great jazz singer combined with the breath, breadth and precise projection of a trained voice. James Levine coached her at the Metropolitan Opera, and when he accompanied her at the 1984 Salzburg Festival and DG recorded the recital as Battle's debut solo album, nothing less than a phenomenon was launched. She had been admired as a gifted singer since the age of eight, and a 1985 article in Time magazine declared that she was 'the greatest lyric coloratura soprano in the world'.
Her performances at the Met of Susanna, Despina, Pamina and other lyric roles in the great Mozart operas, conducted by Levine, established her as one of the world's leading interpreters of this repertoire. Recorded near the end of her DG association, Battle and Levine recorded arias from those roles for an album which became a radiantly beautiful souvenir of an era when they formed an artistic team as celebrated and accomplished in their way as Schwarzkopf and Karajan or Nilsson and Solti. However, Battle had already recorded for several labels, and this Eloquence box uniquely brings together selected albums she made for Angel (the US branch of EMI - those which have repatriated to Universal Music Group) with the DG recitals. They include an imaginatively programmed guitar recital with Christopher Parkening and excerpts from a Messiah led by Sir Andrew Davis in Toronto.
These Handel arias feature on a new compilation within the album, 'Kathleen Battle sings Sacred Music', which also features excerpts from her appearances in Levine's DG recordings of The Creation by Haydn and the C minor Mass by Mozart, as well as Poulenc's Gloria and the 'Pie Jesu' from Fauré's Requiem. Two further albums showcase excerpts from more complete albums: one of Handel and Mozart arias, including the celebrated Semele recording with John Nelson, and another of operatic and concert arias, including a staggering 'Grossmächtige Prinzessin' (Ariadne, with Levine) and the touching songs from the Ozawa recording of Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This set is an essential acquisition for all lovers of lyric soprano artistry.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Universal Music Australia Pty. Studio Masters
Tracks 1-20 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-20 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -4.76 -15.71 to -0.32 | -28.15 -35.86 to -22.81 | -24.00 -32.80 to -18.70 | 13 10 to 16 | |
| 1 | Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Dow Invite | -7.93 | -30.81 | -27.5 | 12 |
| 2 | Allemande (Arr. Parkening) | -12.19 | -35.28 | -32.2 | 14 |
| 3 | What If I Never Speed? | -8.86 | -29.44 | -26.0 | 13 |
| 4 | Galliard | -15.71 | -35.86 | -32.8 | 13 |
| 5 | Fine Knacks For Ladies | -9.12 | -30.13 | -26.7 | 13 |
| 6 | Prelude in C Major, BWV 846) | -1.10 | -26.37 | -21.4 | 13 |
| 7 | Aria (From “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5”) | -2.14 | -26.85 | -22.5 | 15 |
| 8 | La Maja de Goya (From “Coleccion de Tonadillas”) | -1.85 | -29.65 | -26.2 | 16 |
| 9 | Boi-Bumba | -2.24 | -27.13 | -23.9 | 16 |
| 10 | Azulao | -4.27 | -28.19 | -24.5 | 13 |
| 11 | Para Ninar | -8.67 | -31.95 | -28.5 | 14 |
| 12 | Cancion | -0.68 | -22.81 | -19.3 | 13 |
| 13 | Nana | -4.21 | -25.20 | -20.3 | 10 |
| 14 | Seguidilla Murciana | -2.79 | -25.41 | -21.7 | 13 |
| 15 | Ain't Got Time To Die | -0.32 | -23.94 | -18.7 | 13 |
| 16 | Lord, I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray | -0.88 | -26.75 | -21.2 | 11 |
| 17 | Ain't That Good News! | -0.53 | -25.73 | -20.0 | 13 |
| 18 | Sweet Little Jesus Boy | -5.65 | -29.01 | -24.5 | 14 |
| 19 | This Little Light Of Mine (Remastered) | -4.07 | -27.30 | -21.9 | 11 |
| 20 | Ride On, King Jesus! | -1.93 | -25.25 | -20.1 | 13 |