Uploaded August 2018 | Updated September 2026, 13 minutes ago
In this instalment of Jazz, Period., we hear Montreal based vocalist Lana Stamen reinterpret "Stranger in Paradise". The singer pays a unique homage the the original Slavic source material of the Broadway show tune (Kismet, 1953). Instead of the piece's original Russian (Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, 1890), Stamen has delicately translated the English lyric to her native Bulgarian, giving us a remarkable and compelling version. The modern American lyric is distinctly more romantic than the original, and it is sung now in a language seldom heard by fans of the American Popular Songbook.
Lana Stamen is accompanied by the talented young jazz pianist, Gentiane Michaud-Gagnon, recent recipient of CBC Radio Canada's "Révélation Radio-Canada en jazz" award 2018/19.
Stamen is singing into a rare pre-war Telefunken microphone that has been meticulously restored for such a performance by Leo Schaal of Schaal Audio, http://www.schaal-audio.com.
In this instalment of Jazz, Period., we hear Montreal based vocalist Lana Stamen reinterpret "Stranger in Paradise". The singer pays a unique homage the the original Slavic source material of the Broadway show tune (Kismet, 1953). Instead of the piece's original Russian (Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, 1890), Stamen has delicately translated the English lyric to her native Bulgarian, giving us a remarkable and compelling version. The modern American lyric is distinctly more romantic than the original, and it is sung now in a language seldom heard by fans of the American Popular Songbook.
Lana Stamen is accompanied by the talented young jazz pianist, Gentiane Michaud-Gagnon, recent recipient of CBC Radio Canada's "Révélation Radio-Canada en jazz" award 2018/19.
Stamen is singing into a rare pre-war Telefunken microphone that has been meticulously restored for such a performance by Leo Schaal of Schaal Audio, http://www.schaal-audio.com.
