Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs | BIS BIS2102

Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs

£13.25 £9.94

save £3.32 (25%)

special offer ending 01/04/2024

In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day

Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2102

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th March 2015

Contents

Artists

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

Works

Boulanger, Lili

Clairieres dans le ciel (13 songs)
» no.9 Les lilas qui avaient fleuri

Britten, Benjamin

The Poet's Echo, op.76
» no.4 The nightingale and the rose 'Solovej i roza'

Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel

Toutes les fleurs

Debussy, Claude

Proses lyriques
» no.3 De fleurs

Faure, Gabriel

Songs (2), op.1
» no.1 Le papillon et la fleur
Songs (4), op.39
» no.2 Fleur jetee
» no.4 Les roses d'Ispahan

Gounod, Charles

Le temps des roses

Hahn, Reynaldo

Offrande

Poulenc, Francis

Fleurs

Purcell, Henry

Sweeter than Roses

Quilter, Roger

Elizabethan Lyrics (7), op.12
» no.3 Damask roses

Schubert, Franz

Die Blumensprache, D519
Im Haine, D738

Schumann, Robert

Gedichte (6) und Requiem, op.90
» no.2 Meine Rose
Gesange (3), op.83
» no.2 Die Blume der Ergebung
Gesange (6), op.89
» no.6 Roselein, Roselein!
Liederalbum fur die Jugend, op.79
» no.26 Schneeglockchen
Lieder und Gesange (5), op.27
» no.4 Jasminenstrauch

Strauss, Richard

Lieder (4), op.36
» no.1 Das Rosenband
Madchenblumen, op.22

Artists

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

About

Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes worldwide in repertoire ranging from the early baroque to the present day, in opera and concert as well as on disc. Nevertheless, the present recording is, as she writes in a personal introduction in the CD booklet, something of a début – her first recital disc of songs with piano.

When choosing the repertoire, she collaborated closely with her pianist Joseph Middleton, and together they have devised a garland of flowers: settings of poems on a floral theme in Russian, English, French and German.

Just as flowers themselves are used to convey affection or regret, and are symbols of celebration as well as bereavement, the selected songs represent a great diversity, through their different musical styles and affects. Scintillating exuberance, as in Fauré’s youthful Le papillon et la fleur, and intimate delicacy (Schumann: Schneeglöckchen) alternate with the ethereal mystique of Richard Strauss and the sad resignation which infuses Britten’s setting of Alexander Pushkin’s poem Solovej i roza, depicting the unrequited love of a nightingale for a rose.

There are even threatening moments, as in De fleurs, Debussy’s setting of his own, Baudelairean text, in which violet irises and sickly white lilies languish in a stifling hothouse atmosphere. But as Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton sum it up in the closing song of the disc, Chabrier’s Toutes les fleurs, we do adore them all, be they mimosa, jasmine, lilies-of-the-valley, marigolds, corn-flowers, cyclamen…

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here