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In previous decades, an opera singer would have committed commercial suicide by daring to sing songs from the musical theatre, but not anymore. The magnificent Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel did his serious career no harm at all when he agreed to record this selection of 20 songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1995. Of course, he has yet to appear on stage in any of their shows, but that is not the point. Eight of the partnership's 10 shows are represented. The album opens bracingly with "Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'" from
Oklahoma and ends inspirationally with "You'll Never Walk Alone" from
Carousel. Terfel sings the title track, "Something Wonderful", from
The King And I as if it were autobiographical. He characterises little but delivers everything as if he were wearing tails and enunciates mostly as an Anglo-Saxon, although he is undecided about the middle syllable of "Some Enchanted Evening". He employs the most magical
sotto voce in the business sparingly and to greatest effect in "Edelweiss" from
The Sound of Music: he sings as if he might damage the fragile thing if he did not whisper. Paul Daniel conducts the English Northern Philharmonia and Chorus of Opera North who are suitably camp in "Nothin' Like A Dame". --
Rick Jones
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