Dreamer In Concert
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| Dreamer in Concert | ||||
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| Released | March 27, 2012 | |||
| Recorded | May 30–31, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Vocal Jazz | |||
| Length | 1:10:47 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Jim Tomlinson | |||
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Dreamer in Concert is a 2011 live album by Stacey Kent. This was Kent's first live album, and was recorded at the La Cigale theatre in Paris.[1]
John Fordham writing in The Guardian gave the album three stars out of five and commented that the loudest sounds on the album are "the audience cheering" and praised Kent's vocal abilities, highlighting her "expressive delicacy at low volumes, flexible phrasing and instinctive dialogues with her saxophonist husband, Jim Tomlinson". Fordham commented that "But Kent's rare and almost defiant sustained note at the close of the French-language Samba Saravah, a gritty robustness on If I Were a Bell, and the occasional Madeleine Peyroux-like elision on The Best Is Yet to Come give this set extra intrigue – even if devotees of edgier jazz will grumble that it's like having chocolate poured in your ear."[2]
Writing for the Jazz Times, Christopher Loudon also positively reviewed Dreamer in Concert saying that "...it's hardly surprising to discover that she sounds as warm and inviting onstage as she does in the studio." Loudon singled out "O Comboio" and "Postcard Lovers" for special praise.[3]
