Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs

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A sweetly scented posy, this...Perfect, too, for all who love Sampson's fragrant, light-filled, warmly communicative soprano. Surprisingly, this is her solo recital debut on disc. The bouquet... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2102
Label: BIS
Length: 68 minutes

Gramophone Awards

2015

Finalist - Solo Vocal

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Purcell: Purcell - 6 Songs (text by R. Norton)

Work length3:40

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Purcell - 6 Songs: No. 6. Sweeter than Roses, Z. 585 / 1

Track length3:40

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Excerpt, Schumann: Gedichte (6) und Requiem, Op. 90

Work length3:29

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

6 Gedichte und Requiem, Op. 90: No. 2. Meine Rose

Track length3:29

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Excerpt, Schumann: Sechs Gesänge, Op. 89

Work length2:26

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

6 Gesange, Op. 89: No. 6. Roselein, Roselein!

Track length2:26

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Excerpt, Quilter: Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12

Work length1:24

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 3. Damask Roses

Track length1:24

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Britten: Ekho poeta (The Poet's Echo) Op. 76

Work length4:03

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

The Poet's Echo ('Ekho Po'eta), Op. 76: No. 4. Solovej i roza (The Nightingale and the Rose)

Track length4:03

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Gounod: Le temps des roses

Work length2:25

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Excerpt, Fauré: Songs (4), Op. 39

Work length3:04

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Les roses d'Ispahan, Op. 39, No. 4

Track length3:04

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Excerpt, Strauss, R: Lieder (4), Op. 36, TrV 186

Work length3:27

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

4 Lieder, Op. 36, TrV 186: No. 1. Das Rosenband

Track length3:27

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Strauss, R: Mädchenblumen, Op. 22

Work length10:48

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

No. 1. Kornblumen

Track length2:03

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No. 2. Mohnblumen

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No. 3. Epheu

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No. 4. Wasserrose

Track length3:55

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Schubert: Die Blumensprache D519 (Platner)

Work length2:18

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Schubert: Im Haine, Op. 56, No. 3, D. 738

Work length2:30

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Schumann: Lieder und Gesange, Book 1, Op. 27: No. 4. Jasminenstrauch

Work length0:48

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Excerpt, Schumann: Drei Gesänge, Op. 83

Work length3:11

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

3 Gesange, Op. 83: No. 2. Die Blume der Ergebung

Track length3:11

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Excerpt, Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79

Work length1:39

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Lieder-Album fur die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 27. Schneeglockchen

Track length1:39

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Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP101

Work length2:53

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Fiancailles pour rire, FP 101: No. 6. Fleurs

Track length2:53

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Fauré: Le papillon et la fleur, Op. 1 No. 1

Work length2:03

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Fauré: Fleur jetée, Op. 39 No. 2

Work length1:21

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Hahn, R: Offrande

Work length3:23

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Excerpt, Debussy: Proses Lyriques

Work length5:46

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Proses lyriques: No. 3. De fleurs

Track length5:46

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Excerpt, Boulanger, L: Clairières dans le ciel

Work length2:42

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

Clairieres dans le ciel: IX. Les lilas qui avaient fleuri (The lilacs that had flowered)

Track length2:42

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Chabrier: Toutes les fleurs

Work length5:17

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: February 2014
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England

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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’s Wasserrose 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…

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Awards Issue 2015

A sweetly scented posy, this...Perfect, too, for all who love Sampson's fragrant, light-filled, warmly communicative soprano. Surprisingly, this is her solo recital debut on disc. The bouquet was Joseph Middleton's idea, and his fluent and always idiomatic playing accompanies Sampson with glee and grace throughout.

May 2015

Always a lovely Baroque singer, Sampson vividly suggests the mounting erotic excitement of 'Sweeter than roses'...But with hints of deeper colours in her vernal soprano, she is hardly less persuasive in Romantic songs...Middleton creates limpid, luminous textures...an imaginatively planned, beautifully executed recital that charms and touches by turns.

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