but I like to sing... / Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton
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 its 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 risqué poems by Pierre Louÿs, 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.
Product Description:
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Release Date: November 03, 2023
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UPC: 7318599926735
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Catalog Number: BIS-2673
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Label: BIS
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Number of Discs: 1
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Composer: Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Johannes Brahms, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Cesar Franck, Charles Gounod, Ivor Gurney, Joseph Marx, Felix Mendelssohn, Emile Paladilhe, Hubert Parry, Francis Poulenc, Deborah Pritchard, Kaija Saariaho, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, Rita Strohl, Errollyn Wallen, Hugo Wolf
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Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
Works:
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Mörike Lieder: No. 11. An eine Äolsharfe
Composer: Hugo Wolf
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Lieder (5), Op. 49, No. 2: An ein Veilchen
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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An die Musik, Op. 88, No. 4, D. 547
Composer: Franz Schubert
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1. My Heart is Like a Singing Bird
Composer: Hubert Parry
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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I Hate Music: No. 3. I Hate Music
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Something More Than Mortal
Composer: Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Gesänge (6), Op. 34, No. 2: Auf Flügeln des Gesänges (On Wings of Song), MWV K86
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Lieder und Gesänge, Vol. 3, No. 1: Nocturne
Composer: Joseph Marx
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Nocturne, M. 85
Composer: Cesar Franck
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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12 Chants de Bilitis (excerpts)
Composer: Rita Strohl
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Psyché
Composer: Emile Paladilhe
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Ave Maria
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach-Charles Gounod
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Poèmes (2) de Louis Aragon, FP 122
Composer: Francis Poulenc
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Instants (4): No. 3. Parfum de l'instant
Composer: Kaija Saariaho
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Everyone Sang
Composer: Deborah Pritchard
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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A Slumber Song of the Madonna
Composer: Samuel Barber
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Elizabethan Songs (5): No. 4. Sleep
Composer: Ivor Gurney
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Lieder (4), Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4. Morgen
Composer: Richard Strauss
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)
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Peace on Earth
Composer: Errollyn Wallen
Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), Joseph Middleton (Piano)