Carolyn Sampson / Joseph Middleton -Reason in Madness -Bis SACD+CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Lieder der Ophelia WoO 22 Nr. 1-5 (Auszug)

01. "Nr. 4 Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß"
Lieder op. 107 Nr. 1-6 (Auszug)

02. "Nr. 1 Herzeleid"
Lieder op. 67 Nr. 1-3 (Lieder der Ophelia)

03. "Nr. 1 Wie erkenn ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun"

04. "Nr. 2 Guten Morgen, 's ist Sankt Valentinstag"

05. "Nr. 3 Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß"

06. "Hymne ? Astart?"
Chansons de Bilitis I Nr. 1-3

07. "Nr. 1 La Fl?te de Pan"

08. "Nr. 2 La Chevelure"

09. "Nr. 3 Le Tombeau des na?ades"

10. "pitaphe de Bilitis"

11. "Romance de Mignon"

12. "Mignons Lied (Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn) (Goethe)"

13. "Mignon I (Heiß mich nicht reden, heiß mich schweigen) (Goethe)"

14. "Mignon II (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) (Goethe)"

15. "Mignon III (So laßt mich scheinen bis ich werde) (Goethe)"

16. "Gretchen am Spinnrade (Meine Ruh ist hin) op. 2 D 118"
Lieder op. 107 Nr. 1-5 (Auszug)

17. "Nr. 5 M?dchenlied"
Lieder op. 107 Nr. 1-6 (Auszug)

18. "Nr. 4 Die Spinnerin"

19. "La Mort d'Oph?lie"

20. "Chanson d'Oph?lie"

21. "Lieder der Ophelia WoO 22 Nr. 1-5"

22. "Au pays o? se fait la guerre"

23. "La Dame de Monte-Carlo FP 180"

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Joseph Middleton

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Reason In Madness by Carolyn Sampson, released 1 March 2019. This version of Reason In Madness comes as a 1xSuper Audio. - JOSEPH MIDDLETON

Throughout history men have feared madwomen, burning them as witches, confining them in asylums and subjecting them to psychoanalysis - yet, they have also been fascinated, unable to resist fantasizing about them. For their new release, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have created a programme that explores the responses of a variety of composers to women whose stories have left them vulnerable and exposed. As a motto they have chosen an aphorism by Nietzsche: 'There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.' Brahms' Ophelia Songs, composed for a stage production of Hamlet, appear next to those by Richard Strauss and Chausson, while Ophelia's death is described by both Schumann (in Herzeleid) and Saint-Saëns. Goethe's mysterious and traumatized Mignon appears in settings by Hugo Wolf as well as Duparc, while his ill-used Gretchen grieves by her spinning-wheel in Schubert's matchless setting. Sadness and madness tip into witchery and unbridled eroticism with Pierre Louÿs's poems about Bilitis, set by Koechlin and Debussy. Sampson and Middleton end their recital as it began, with a suicide by drowning: in Poulenc's monologue La Dame de Monte-Carlo, the elderly female protagonist has been unlucky at the gambling tables and decides to throw herself into the sea.

Recording: January 2018 at Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, England Comes in a 2-panel digipack with sticked in 35-page booklet Liner notes in English, German and French Sung texts in the original language (German or French) and English Disc rim text in English ? &© 2019, BIS Records AB, Åkersberga. Made in the EU (on back) Made in the EU by DADC (on disc rim) TT: 75'50 Catalog numbers ? BIS-2353 | SACD on back inlay and disc ? BIS-2353 SACD on spine and website ? BIS-2353 on booklet p. 35

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BISSACD-2353

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