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Release Date Friday 26th June 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
"‘Cécile McLorin Salvant ... sings standards, show tunes and old novelties in a taut, flinty, elusively beautiful voice, erring toward material with difficult lyrics and tough places in history. Salvant wins over her audiences by tweaking them slightly: daring them to go there with her—not just into the archive, but toward the darkness of the past.’ – New York Times
‘Although Salvant is known as a jazz musician, her approach to music is defined by her instinct for experimentation ... Her music is beloved for ... embracing theatre and subverting classics with playful renditions.’ – Guardian
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 tours internationally throughout the summer and fall; see nonesuch.com/on-tour for details.
Salvant, who has performed with orchestras regularly over the last decade-and-a-half and 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."
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)
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