After many acclaimed releases on BIS, most recently 'Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook' (BIS-2653), Carolyn Sampson's latest recital with Joseph Middleton lives up to it's name: it is an eloquent testimony to the English soprano's love of her art. This programme artfully blends well-known and lesser-known lieder by German and Austrian masters such as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf with French songs by Gounod, Poulenc and Franck, as well as works by Anglo-Saxon composers such as Hubert Parry, Samuel Barber and Ivor Gurney. Female composers are not forgotten, with rarely-performed songs by Rita Strohl based on slightly risquÃ© poems by Pierre LouÃ¿s, music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Kaija Saariaho - who has recently passed away - and Deborah Pritchard, whose song presented here was composed especially for Sampson. And while Leonard Bernstein's comically cheeky song 'I hate music', appears to be a call not to let music take itself too seriously, Errollyn Wallen's 'Peace on Earth', which concludes the album, invokes calm and encourages us to find peace, a message that seems more relevant today than ever

Tracklist:

An eine Ã„olsharfe from MÃ¶rike-Lieder
An ein Veilchen, Op. 49 No. 2
An die Musik, D 547
My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird from English Lyrics, Set 10
I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kid Songs~No.
I Hate Music
Something More Than Mortal
Auf FlÃ¼geln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2
Nocturne No. 1 of Lieder und GesÃ¤nge, III. Folge
Nocturne, FWV 85
Bilitis, poÃ¨me en 12 chants~IX. Bilitis
Bilitis, poÃ¨me en 12 chants~XI. La nuit
Bilitis, poÃ¨me en 12 chants~XII. Berceuse
PsychÃ©
Ave Maria
Deux poÃ¨mes de Louis Aragon, FP 122~I. C
Deux poÃ¨mes de Louis Aragon, FP 122~II. FÃªtes galantes
Quatre instants~Parfum de l'instant
Everyone Sang
Slumber Song of the Madonna
Sleep, No. 4 of Five Elizabethan Songs
Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Peace on Earth

UPC: 7318599926735
Label: Bis
Release Date: 11.3.23
Format: CD

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