Recordings

TRACK LIST

1. Walden I. I went to the woods

2. Walden II. Sometimes, on Sundays

3. Walden III. Time is but the stream

4. Walden IV. I left the woods

5. As Long as We Live

6. Songs from the Plays: I. Bring Back the Beds

7. Songs from the Plays: II. They Say Prince Hamlet’s Found a Southern Island

8. Songs from the Plays: III. This Dancing Man Was Once The Pope

9. Songs from the Plays: IV. When I Was a Young Woman

10. Songs from the Plays: V. Your Genius Made Me Shiver

11. Songs from the Plays: VI. What Makes This Statue Noble Seeming?

12. Songs from the Plays: VII. You Want a Social Life, With Friends

    Composed by Greg Spears (1-4)/Missy Mazzoli (5)/Mason Bates (6-12)

Release Date: ‎ November 11, 2022
Label: ‎ Bright Shiny Things
ASIN: ‎ B0BCGS8MQ9

“Brian Mulligan offered a rounded baritone with impressive evenness throughout the registers…his aria proper showed off a lovely legato.”

Kevin W Ng, Bachtrack

“As Guglielmo, Brian Mulligan sang with resonance and bite in a role that tests the singer at both ends of a very wide range”.

Alexander Campbell, Classical Source

“Puccini’s writing when all three characters sing together is particularly skillful, and here was brought to the full by Brian Mulligan’s strong and assertive baritone as Guglielmo, Arsen Soghomonyan’s dark but exceptionally versatile tenor as Roberto, and Ermonela Jaho’s highly committed and emotional performance as Anna.”

Sam Smith, Music OMH

From Bridge Records:

Brian Mulligan’s second solo album released by Bridge Records. The album features beloved songs of the early twentieth century made popular by great American baritones of the past. Brian Mulligan and pianist Craig Rutenberg have curated this program to represent a breadth of composers and musical styles, honoring an incredible period of music in America.

“The CD presents a fine selection of the kind of concert song that has long since vanished from the active repertory, with a style floating somewhere between popular and semi-classical. These numbers predate the universal use of microphones and require good, solid technique.

The sentimental “Roses of Picardy” (1916) stands out for effective intimacy, as does the familiar stanzaic Romberg chestnut.

Mulligan delivers the words with admirable clarity; the texts are available on his website. Ironically, his nostalgic project should prove a welcome novelty for many listeners.” –David Shengold

“Mulligan has a thrilling quality in his voice, an open-throated sound that’s masculine, honest, and completely appealing; his is an exhilarating balance between constant beauty and toeing a risky edge. There’s something accessible about his approach to the texts in Argento’s songs; in Mulligan’s voice they have an “all-American” quality, despite the texts’ origins in Swedish explorers and English writers.”

Schmopera