The duo's second album on Solo Musica celebrates the song repertoire of women composers from Romanticism to Contemporary Music with 24 songs by 24 women composers. The Swiss soprano Franziska HEINZEN and British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin MEAD set out to research the work of women composers for Clara SCHUMANN's bicentenary in 2019 - and discovered a valuable treasure of relatively unknown music. Beginning with a life journey through refreshing spring feelings, the album goes on to describe painful hours of loneliness and uncertainty as well as anxious premonitions of death and dark fears. Five examples of self-confident female characters, whose experiences are concluded with wiser, reflections on life, as seen retrospectively.

Tracklist:

June Twilight
Heure Exquise
Laue Sommernacht
Ah, Love, But a Day
Am Strande
Hilf Mir!
Insel der Vergessenheit
Dying Is Fine) But Death
Warum Sind Denn Die Rosen So Blass
Night Dances~Sleep, Mourner, Sleep!
Ballades (4) de Paul Fort~Le Diable Dans la Nuit
Yellow Leaves~Farewell
Alma Phantasien~Nur der Seinen Leben
Ophelia's Song
Loreley
PoÃ¨mes (5) for voice ; piano~Le Sommeil de LeÃ¯lah
Song of a Nightclub Proprietress
Ewige Liebe
Ã‰couter et ne Rien Entendre
Ob Ich Manchmal Dein Gedenke
Ma PremiÃ¨re Lettre
Remembrance

UPC: 4260123643782
Label: Solo Musica
Release Date: 10.15.21
Format: CD

Komponistinnen / Various - Komponistinnen / Various (CD)