Wonderful rendition... This should be required listening for young and upcoming singers - Melodically pure yet richly interpreted, personalized and caressing, free of excess and bombastic excursions, lyrically crisp and always intelligible... totally captivating and full of soul!
A brilliantly rendered take on a classic jazz standard. R.I.P. Dame Abbey Lincoln...today's singers could not be a pimple on your lovely bottom. What phrasing...what subtle, yet distinct arrangement...the brushes, the piano, the trumpet...and ABBEY bringing it all together with grace and a velvet vocal. Outstanding!
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
Written by Sigmund (of the Sea Monsters) Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein fame) for their 1929 Broadway musical "The New Moon". You often hear it done in movies and cartoons as a tango. See? White/Euro classical culture is not so bad as insecure-in-their-own-skin white apologists (mostly) make it. Abbey nails it here. DId this woman have perfect pitch? Sounds like it.
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And take you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let it fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light of love comes stealing
Into a newborn day
Flaming with all the glow of sunrise
A burning kiss is sealing
A vow that all betray
For the passions that thrill love
And take you high to heaven
Are the passions that kill love
And let it fall to hell
So ends the story
Softly as in a morning sunrise
The light that gave you glory
Will take it all away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
Softly as it fades away
