Kyle Bielfield, Lachlan Glen & Michael Samis – Stopping By American Songs (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Outstanding tenor and recent Juilliard School graduate Kyle Bielfield has lost no time in making quite a name for himself in the realms of opera and art song alike. In this, his debut recording, he offers a carefully chosen assortment of outstanding American art songs by the finest domestic composers – to include Amy Beach, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Samuel Barber, John Duke, Ned Rorem, Mark Abel and others. He further blesses us with classic examples of nostalgia-ridden vocal Americana by Stephen Foster, Aaron Copland, Irving Berlin and Leonard Bernstein. All texts are also by American writers and poets. The title theme derives from the album’s three winning settings of former American Poet Laureate Robert Frost’s signature poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”

Kyle is blessed with a gorgeous, silvery lyric tenor voice: an instrument that he applies with consummate skill, rare expressiveness and deep emotion. These virtues combine to produce memorable and incredibly moving performances. Pianist Lachlan Glen provides virtuosic, sensitive and empathetic keyboard collaboration throughout – and cellist Michael Samis’s lovely obbligatos grace several of the Americana selections.

Tracklist:
01. Kyle Bielfield – 4 Songs, Op. 56 No. 1. Autumn Song (01:41)
02. Kyle Bielfield – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (01:57)
03. Kyle Bielfield – The Lordly Hudson (02:24)
04. Kyle Bielfield – Water that Falls and Runs Away (02:08)
05. Kyle Bielfield – The Water Lily (02:32)
06. Kyle Bielfield – 3 Poems of Robert Frost No. 2. The Rose Family (01:15)
07. Kyle Bielfield – In the Woods (01:45)
08. Kyle Bielfield – 4 Songs, Op. 13 No. 3. Sure on this Shining Night (02:25)
09. Kyle Bielfield – Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (03:33)
10. Kyle Bielfield – Snake (01:02)
11. Kyle Bielfield – From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water (01:54)
12. Kyle Bielfield – Morning in Paris (01:54)
13. Kyle Bielfield – 3 Poems, Op. 9 No. 3. Phantoms (01:58)
14. Kyle Bielfield – Bread and Music (02:56)
15. Kyle Bielfield – Little Elegy (01:49)
16. Kyle Bielfield – 6 Songs No. 5. Wood Song (01:28)
17. Kyle Bielfield – February Twilight (02:27)
18. Kyle Bielfield – Beauty Is Not Caused (02:08)
19. Kyle Bielfield – Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (02:22)
20. Kyle Bielfield – 4 Songs, Op. 56 No. 2. Go Not Too Far (01:49)
21. Kyle Bielfield – The Benediction (07:01)
22. Kyle Bielfield – IV. Simple Gifts (02:00)
23. Kyle Bielfield – III. Long Time Ago (02:43)
24. Kyle Bielfield – Beautiful Dreamer (02:59)
25. Kyle Bielfield – Gentle Annie (arr. for voice, cello and piano) (02:35)
26. Kyle Bielfield – Carefree Change partners (03:41)
27. Kyle Bielfield – Spring Will Come Again (03:37)
28. Kyle Bielfield – Peter Pan Dream With Me (04:21)