Louise Alder / Joseph Middleton -Lines written during a sleepless Night -Chandos Records CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Six Songs, Op.38

01. "1. In my Garden at Night"

02. "2. To Her"

03. "3. Daisies"

04. "4. The Rat-Catcher"

05. "5. The Dream"

06. "6. A-u!"

07. "Varen flyktar hastigt, Op.13 No.4"

08. "S?v, S?v, Susa, Op.36 No.4"

09. "Flickan kom ifran sin ?lsklings mote, Op.37 No.5"

10. "Var det en dr?m? Op.37 No.4"
Six Songs, Op.48

11. "1. Gruß"

12. "2. Dereinst"

13. "3. Lauf der Welt"

14. "4. Der verschwiegene Nachtigall"

15. "5. Zur Rosenzeit"

16. "6. Ein Traum"
Six Melodies, Op.65

17. "1. S?r?nade"

18. "2. D?ception"

19. "3. S?r?nade"

20. "4. Qu'importe que l'hiver"

21. "5. Les larmes"

22. "6. Rondel"

23. "Mailied, Op.6 No.2"

24. "Meeresstille, Op.15 No.7"
The Poet's Echo, Op.76

25. "1. Echo"

26. "2. My Heart, I fancied it was over"

27. "3. Angel"

28. "4. The Nightingale and the Rose"

29. "5. Epigram"

30. "6. Lines Written during a Sleepless Night"

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Works By Rachmaninov/ Sibelius

Description:

â??Hereâ??s a really lovely disc from two of classical songâ??s brightest artists... Alder is in glorious voice, her soprano fresh and untethered; the assurance of youth and the doubt born of experience come across equally convincingly. Her high notes gleam, and her words are direct and communicative, whether in Russian, Swedish, German or French. Middletonâ??s playing fills in everything those words canâ??t say, perfectly calibrated to support Alder but huge in its expressive scope... a disc you will want to play again right away.â?? Classical Album of the Week â?? The Guardian - WORKS BY RACHMANINOV/SIBELIUS

The soprano Louise Alder has been described as 'the brightest lyric soprano of the younger generation' (The Arts Desk),'a born actress' (Opera), and as having 'a voice of sparkling beauty' (Gramophone). In this her debut recording for Chandos, she and her pianist, Joseph Middleton, have devised an unusual but rewarding programme that explores the works of six contrasting composers. As she writes in her booklet note: 'When Joseph suggested making an album of Russian songs, including Russian composers who set poems in other languages, I jumped at the challenge. The more we discussed the repertoire, the more amazed I was to see how well it fitted with my own family history. In 1916 (the same year that Rachmaninoff composed the Opus 38 songs), huge political unrest forced my great-grandparents and family to flee, shutting up the house in Odessa, travelling 1,687 km north by rail to St Petersburg, and then by sleigh into Finland, through Norway, and back to Britain. It is my pleasure to be able to honor my family's Russian connection with this meandering sleigh ride through Russia, with songs in Russian, French, and German, into Finland, in Swedish, and Norway, in German, back to the UK for a cycle of Britten songs in Russian.'

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CHAN20153

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