Recordings
Turning Into Song
Music by Heggie, Moravec, Gill, Drucker, Brown and Wilson
Musica Solis MS202308
Released: 2023
David Shifrin, Susannah Woordruff, Yevgeny Yontov, Eugene Drucker, David Finckel, Mischa Bouvier and Seunghee Lee
Musica Solis Records releases ‘Turning into Song,’ devoted to songs derived from the poetry of Lucy Miller Murray, set to music by American composers; all 15 tracks on the album represent world premiere recordings. ‘Turning into Song’ features the music of Jake Heggie, Paul Moravec, Jeremy Gill, Eugene Drucker, Michael Stephen Brown, and Richard Wilson. Featured on the album are newcomer Susannah Woodruff (mezzo-soprano); David Shifrin (clarinet); Yevgeny Yontov (piano); Eugene Drucker (violin and composer); David Finckel (cello); Mischa Bouvier (baritone) and Seunghee Lee (clarinet).
- OPERAWIRE
Le Memorie Dolorose
Music by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Olde Focus Recordings FCR914
Released: 2019
TENET Vocal Artists & ACRONYM
“The recording is luminous. The singers of TENET Vocal Artists, both solo and tutti, exude a sense of refined pathos and rhetorical gesture apropos for the work’s original intimate courtly setting. The instrumentalists of ACRONYM more than match them in emotiveness; the continuo is warm, resonant, and supportive, the full ensemble beautifully unified.”
- EARLY MUSIC AMERICA
Sumeida’s Song
Music by Mohammed Fairouz
Bridge Records (BRIDGE 9385)
Released: 2012
Mimesis Ensemble
Scott Dunn, conductor
“As Alwan, Mischa Bouvier is authoritative and grand, with a soothing, cavernous baritone that can soar to heights of lyric beauty, as on the line 'I ask God to calm your agitated soul.'“
- OPERA NEWS
Carousel
Music by Richard Rodgers
BSO Classics
Released: 2012 (out-of-print)
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
“Carousel has probably never been performed by a bigger or a better orchestra, and the sheer sound of the magnificent overture, as led by Keith Lockhart, sweeps you away and deposits you in the world of Carousel body and soul. And the cast is uniformly and individually excellent.”
- RICHARD DYER
A son très-humble service
Music by Agostino Steffani
Musica Omnia (MO0802)
Release: 2019
Jory Vinikour, musical direction
“In two duets Mobley is joined by bass Mischa Bouvier, whose precise agility evokes wafting breezes in the virtuoso solo opening of Aure, voi che volate (one of several duets receiving their first recording).
- GRAMOPHONE
“Bouvier shines again, once more paired with Mobley, in Sia maledetto Amor (Cursed by Cupid), arguably the most purely exciting item of the set.”
- FANFARE
O barbaro Amore
Music by Agostino Steffani
Musica Omnia (MO0711)
Released: 2018
Jory Vinikour, musical direction
“Brisson Paquin and Bouvier take the first steps on this journey with a traversal of ‘È spento l’ardore’ that establishes a charged atmosphere in which the relationships between text and music—and the alternating collaborations and confrontations between voices—conjure bitingly realistic tableaux of lovers’ rows and reconciliations.”
- VOIX DES ARTS