Dreamer In Concert

用歌声传递心情 用音乐编织梦想 跟着轻盈跳跃的音符 在幸福中漫游 　　多年前一场面对面的访谈，Stacey Kent告诉我：「快乐唱歌，就是最美妙的梦！」连作梦也爱唱歌的她，我们却从没有机会听到她现场演唱的录音。2011年5月，她在法国巴黎最夯的La Cigale剧院举办了一场个唱，这次的演出被纪录下来了，正握在您手上。 音乐会走一贯的四重奏编制，或该说是五重奏，因为吉他底子不弱的Stacey Kent也抱着吉他弹唱，就像她在台湾表演时一样。钢琴手是Graham Harvey，几首作品还使上了经典的键盘乐器Fender Rhodes。贝斯手是Jeremy Brown，鼓手则是从专辑「诗情‧画意」开始长期合作的Matt Skelton。至于萨克斯风手，当然是原则上一辈子不会更换的爱人老公Jim Tomlinson。 Stacey Kent将近年畅销专辑里最受欢迎的曲目作了番回顾，有点蒙太奇式的拼贴逻辑，标准曲、法国香颂、创作曲与Bossa Nova此起彼落，观众也同样沉浸在这五彩缤纷的浪漫氛围里。台湾听众最喜爱的「早安‧幸福」，Kent选择了由日裔小说家石黑一雄填词的标题曲《Breakfast on the Morning Tram》做现场诠释。同样由石黑先生填词的《Postcard Lovers》，则是夫婿Jim Tomlinson的全新创作首演，浪漫唯美的远距离恋爱氛围，其它唱片里绝对听不到。类似逻辑还包括《O Comboio》，同样Tomlinson谱曲，但由Antonio Ladeira填词。前阵子Kent把自己全心投入到葡萄牙语的环境里，这首应当算是成果展现。巴西作曲大师Antonio Carlos Jobim的Bossa Nova经典《Dreamer》，也是在她过去专辑里未曾录制过的曲目。 反过来看，听Stacey Kent唱歌，我们不也像是作了场好梦？！ Stacey Kent sings from the soul. She tells us her stories with faultless phrasing and a lucid, enchanting voice. On the stage of La Cigale, May 2010 in Paris, Stacey shared intimate and intensely emotional moments with a knowing and captivated audience, who had flown in from all around the world to take part in the recording of her first live album. Today, it is our great pleasure to be able to present this radiant, generous and sincere artist on the resulting album, `Dreamer In Concert'. After 8 studio albums, `Dreamer In Concert' is the first album that captures Stacey's magical onstage persona. From the stage of La Cigale, she delivers fresh interpretations of some of the most emblematic songs in her repertoire, including the standards of the Great American Songbook, The Best Is Yet To Come, They Can't Take That Away From Me, It Might As Well Be Spring and others. She also revisits the classic French songs, Ces Petits Riens, Samba Saravah and Jardin d'Hiver. The repertoire also includes four previously unrecorded selections; two from Antônio Carlos Jobim, Waters of March and Dreamer, and two new compositions by her husband, saxophonist and the album's producer, Jim Tomlinson; Postcard Lovers, with lyrics by the novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro (author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go) and O Comboio, penned by the Portuguese poet, Antonio Ladeira, which Stacey sings, beautifully, in Portuguese.