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Title: A sampling of American singing at its greatest
Review: This is a sterling collection of American songs from their chief modern exponent. Only Ben Heppenr's similar recital comes close, and it's limited to Anglo-American sentimental ballads and operetta. Starting with "An Old Song Resung" (1890), the most stunning recital of old-fashioned platform songs since the golden era of Lawrence Tibbett (one of Hampson's heroes), we've had an exemplary album of Stephen Foster and another of modern songs inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman. These are the sources for the compilation offered here.This CD has earned harsh reviews here for being a compilation, but it's not marketed as anything else. I, too, wish that there was new material. Yet I would be much sorrier if propsective buyers didn't have a chance to hear in full the three CDs from which this one is drawn. All are indispensable.
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