Bryn Terfel - Bad Boys (2010)

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Title: Bad Boys
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical, Vocal
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 58:13
Total Size: 302 Mb / 151 mb
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Tracklist:

1. Mefistofele/Act 1 - Canzone Del Fischio: ''So Lo Spirito Che Nega''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
2. Tosca/Act 1 - Tre Sbirri, Una Carrozza
por Bryn Terfel & Balcarras Crafoord & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark
3. L'elisir D'amore/Act 1 - ''Udite, Udite, O Rustici''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark
4. Otello/Act 1 - ''Vanne! La Tua Meta Già Vedo'' - ''Credo In Un Dio Cru- Del''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
5. Der Freischütz/Act 1 - ''Schweig, Schweig, Damit Dich Niemand Warnt''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
6. Porgy And Bess/Act 2 - It Ain't Necessarily So
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark
7. Die Dreigroschenoper - Moritat Von Mackie Messer
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
8. Ruddigore Or The Witch's Curse/Act 2 - 20. When The Night Wind Howls
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark
9. Sondheim: Sweeney Todd - Epiphany
por Bryn Terfel & Anne Sofie von Otter & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
10. Les Miserables - Arranged By David Hamilton - Stars
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
11. La Gioconda/Act 1 - O Monumento!
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
12. Il Barbiere Di Siviglia/Act 1 - No.6 Aria: ''La Calunnia È Un Venticello''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel
13. Fidelio Op.72/Act 1 - ''Ha! Welch Ein Augenblick!''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark
14. Faust/Act 2 - No.7 Ronde Du Veau D'or: ''Le Veau D'or''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark
15. Don Giovanni, Ossia Il Dissoluto Punito, K.527/Act 2 - ''Don Giovanni, A Cenar Teco M'invitasti''
por Bryn Terfel & Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Paul Daniel & Swedish Radio Choir & Arne Lundmark

Mustering up his most menacing grimace for the front cover image -- and looking a little like the way Victor McLaglan looked in John Ford's The Informer -- bass-baritone Bryn Terfel delivers his latest DG offering, Bad Boys, a collection of arias drawn from the repertoire of the bad guys in opera: Mephistopheles, Scarpia, Iago, Sportin' Life, and others. Terfel is very much in his element and on his game here, and the recording is gloriously full and well detailed, featuring the Swedish Radio Symphony under Paul Daniel with the expert Swedish Radio Choir tipping in at key points. The orchestrations are all original, so those who complained about the contemporary-styled orchestrations on some of Terfel's more crossover-flavored projects should have no reason to carp with Bad Boys, save the one created for "Stars: There, out in the darkness" from Les Misérables. Indeed, the weakest selections seem to be the more contemporary ones -- "Moritat" and "It ain't necessarily so" -- but these make up only a small part of a menu consisting of 15 items here. Terfel has been struggling for some time leading up to this to deliver an album that will please his fan base, split between camps that either favors opera or those who just his like voice generally and don't necessarily care for opera. Bad Boys is a good concept and this disc should appeal to most everyone in Terfel's retinue; it gives every appearance of having been compiled with care with an eye toward good taste, even if the subjects of these various roles were inherently "bad."