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Middleton is everywhere a sensitive and imaginative accompanist to Amanda Roocroft, whse intimate, emotionally versatile singing is always engaging, even if there are times when her soprano becomes... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Oct 2012
Catalogue No: CHRCD040
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 75 minutes

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Brahms: Tell Me the Truth About Love

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Schumann: Seit ich ihn gesehen

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Boulanger, N: Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme

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Wolf, H: O wär' dein Haus

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Chausson: Le charme

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Quilter: Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)

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Loewe, C: Ich kann's nicht fassen, nicht glauben

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Brahms: Wir wandelten, wir zwei zusammen Op. 96 No. 2

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Ireland: The Trellis

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Poldowski: En sourdine

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Strauss, R: Nachtgang

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Dunhill: The Cloths of Heaven, Op. 30 / 3

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Mompou: Damunt de tu, nomes les flors

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Rachmaninoff: Midsummer Nights

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Bridge: Adoration, H 57

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Grieg: Jeg Elsker Deg, Op. 41 No. 3

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Wolf, H: Geh', Geliebter, geh' jetzt!

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Marx: Und gestern hat er mir Rosen gebracht

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Brahms: Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1

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Brahms: Du sprichst, daß ich mich täuschte

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Schubert: Du liebst mich nicht

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Debussy: La chevelure

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Fauré: Fleur jetée, Op. 39 No. 2

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Schoenberg: Warnung

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Barber: Rain has fallen

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Copland: Heart, We Will Forget Him

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Weill, K: Je ne t'aime pas (text: Maurice Magre)

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Hahn, R: Infidélité

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Britten: Early one Morning

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Some say love's a little boy,

And some say it's a bird,

Some say it makes the world go around,

Some say that's absurd…

W.H. AUDEN

Charting the course of a love affair – in song – through the eyes of a young woman who begins by asking the universal question, Tell me the truth about love presents a programme of 19th and 20th century song.

The album takes its title from Benjamin Britten’s 1938 seductive setting of W.H. Auden’s amusing poem and tries to pin down and define the most elusive of human emotions.

The story takes us from love at first sight with Schumann’s Seit ich ihn gesehen, breathless with wonder and fervent reverance and Chausson’s Le charme which describes the quiver of excitement and the tender veneration the girl feels when the boy’s smile catches her unawares to Loewe’s Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht gluben to describe the lovers first encounter.

As the love story unfolds and the couple become closer, it is illustrated with music such as Strauss’s Nachtgang, Rachmaninov’s Midsummer nights and Bridge’s Adoration. However the magic is soon broken and Sunday brings deception and betrayal. The girl finds out that the young man does not love her and she bitterly awakes from her dream. The feeling of love lost is brought to life through Brahm’s Am Sonntag Morgen, Schubert’s Du liebst mich nicht and Kurt Weill’s Je ne t’aime pas.

As a postlude, Britten’s arrangement of Early one morning perfectly sums up the story of the young girl and the final message of ‘how could you use a poor maiden so?’ lingers in the ear.

Amanda Roocroft has secured an international reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting singers, in opera, concert and recital and Joseph Middleton enjoys a busy and varied career as a chamber musician and song accompanist.

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September 2013

Middleton is everywhere a sensitive and imaginative accompanist to Amanda Roocroft, whse intimate, emotionally versatile singing is always engaging, even if there are times when her soprano becomes just a little spread and raw at the top.

June 2013

Roocroft is impassioned in outgoing songs such as Bridge's ecstatic 'Adoration', where accompanist Joseph Middleton is really able to let himself go, but she can sound strained elsewhere...The choice of songs, though, is its own strong selling point.

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