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November 2005 |
Æterna Romantica & Æterna, soprano Natalie Choquette, ISBA Music in conjunction with Sony/BMG
By Alidė Kohlhaas
Sometimes, out of the blue, one comes across a new artist of whom one has not really been aware before, and one is delighted by the find. In this case, it happens to be Natalie Choquette, who is at home in La Belle Province, when this globetrotter par excellence is at home. The soprano has a warm, golden voice that she uses to excellent effect on her latest album, Æterna Romantica.
On this album she reveals herself not just as a fine singer, but also as a lyricist who expresses her feelings for a number of orchestral works through her own words. She wrote words to Gustav Mahler's touching theme of his 5th Symphony, and called it Immense amore. Talk about capturing my heart with that one as an opening piece of this new CD, for Mahler stands high at the top of my favorite composers. She also wrote words to part of Dvorak's New World Symphony, that section to which I always want to sing the words of Stephen Foster's Homeward Bound. It seems, I am not alone in wanting to express that piece in words.
Choquette had a stormy beginning, so to speak. She was born during a typhoon in Tokyo to parents, who lived there as members of the diplomatic corps. That may be why she is always on the road. She is conversant in . . .
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