Rebecca Luker/The Best of Aria

Café del Mar: The Best of Aria Album Title: Café del Mar: The Best of Aria Artist: Rebecca Luker Audio CD (May 12, 2008) Number of Disc: 1 Studio/Live: Studio Mono/Stereo: Stereo Label: Cafe Del Mar Music Copyright: (c) 2008 Cafe Del Mar Music Duration: 01:15:11 Genre: Electronic, Classical Styles: Ambient, Vocal Music     Cafe del Mar: The Best of Aria Rebecca Luker (2008 Cafe Del Mar Music) Rebecca Luker (2008 Cafe Del Mar Music)   1. Secret Tear 2. Lascia 3. Habanera 4. Willow 5. Horizon 6. Furioso 7. Ascension 8. Pavane 9. Arianna 10. Pamina Blue 11. Ave Maria 12. Metamorphosis 2: Danae 13. Addio 14. Farewell Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore Handel's Rinaldo Bizet's Carmen Verdi's Otello Paul Schwartz Handel's Sarabande Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea Fauré's Pavane Monteverdi's Lament of Arianna Mozart's the Magic Flute Caccini's Ave Maria Paul Schwartz Verdi's Addio from La Traviata Puccini's Madama Butterfly 7:21 3:48 6:26 6:39 4:23 5:21 5:08 4:08 5:16 6:06 4:25 4:09 5:50 6:11   Rebecca Luker (1961- ) Active: 1990s Musical Period: Modern Born: April 17, 1961 in Helena, AL Genre: Stage & Screen, Vocal, Classical Styles: Cast Recordings, Show Tunes, Standards, Show/Musical, Vocal Music Rebecca Luker, whose Broadway credits include The Secret Garden and the 1994 revival of Show Boat, in which she played the female lead, Magnolia, makes her debut solo album with a collection of Cole Porter songs. In her acknowledgments, she thanks her musical director, Patrick Brady, also credited for arrangements and five of the orchestrations (the rest are by Larry Moore), saying his "name should grace the front of this CD." It may be that both Brady and Moore deserve that credit, since their musical treatments of the vintage songs are so stirring. They start with Moore's setting for "Anything Goes," which begins with a simple piano before involving a swing band in a sort of supercharged recollection of 1920s jazz. (by William Ruhlmann)