With Every Breath I Take
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Cécile McLorin Salvant’s first album with orchestra, With Every Breath I Take features The Netherlands’ Metropole Orkest conducted by Jules Buckley. Salvant and the ensemble perform timeless songs newly arranged by composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue.
Salvant, who has performed with orchestras regularly over the last decade-and-a-half, had intended to make an album with one sooner in her career, but logistics and her abundant creative ideas led to other new projects intervening. Having finally found time to make this album, With Every Breath I Take is a different sort of record than it might have been even ten years ago.
“It is a rare opportunity to be able to make an album at this scale, which has been a dream of mine for many years,” Salvant says. “Darcy James Argue wrote stunning arrangements and the Metropole Orkest, conducted by the extraordinary Jules Buckley, gave these stories a cinematic dimension. We overcame quite a few obstacles to even get into the recording studio for this project; it took almost four years for us to do so, and I am so incredibly proud to share it.
“I did not choose these songs because they are beautiful, but because they are crucial to me,” she adds. Cécile McLorin Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is a singer and composer bringing historical perspective, a renewed sense of drama, and an enlightened musical understanding to both jazz standards and her own original compositions. Classically trained, steeped in jazz, blues, and folk, and drawing from musical theater and vaudeville, Salvant embraces a wide-ranging repertoire that broadens the possibilities for live performance.
Released: June 2026
Cat: 0075597896138
Label: Nonesuch
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Tracklist
1. With Every Breath I Take (Cy Coleman and David Zippel)
2. Sophisticated Lady (Music by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Mitchell Parish and Irving Mills)
3. Send in the Clowns (Stephen Sondheim)
4. Barbara Song (Music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Bertold Brecht)
5. Left Over (Cécile McLorin Salvant)
6. Ever Since the One I Love’s Been Gone (Buddy Johnson)
7. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Jacques Demy)
8. I’ll See You Again (Noël Coward)
9. Being Alive (Stephen Sondheim)
10. Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)