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Carolyn Sampson – A Soprano's Schubertiade

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Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
Catalogue No: BIS2343
Label: BIS
Length: 77 minutes

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Schubert: Suleika I, D720

Work length5:28

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Suleika II, D717

Work length4:22

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Rosamunde, D797

Work length3:15

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Rosamunde, D. 797: No. 3b. Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshöhn "Romanze"

Track length3:15

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Schubert: Blondel zu Marien, D626

Work length3:40

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Excerpt, Schubert: Gesange Aus 'wilhelm Meister' D877 (Goethe)

Work length10:23

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 2, Lied der Mignon "Heiss mich nicht reden"

Track length3:39

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No. 4, Lied der Mignon "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt"

Track length3:06

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No. 3, Lied der Mignon "So laßt mich scheinen"

Track length3:38

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Schubert: Kennst du das Land (Mignons Gesang), D321

Work length4:20

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118

Work length3:44

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Gretchen im Zwinger, D. 564, "Gretchens Bitte" (completed by B. Britten)

Work length6:53

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Der König in Thule, D367

Work length3:36

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Viola, D786 (Schober)

Work length13:26

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus (Ellens Gesang I), D837

Work length8:23

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Jäger, ruhe von der Jagd (Ellens Gesang II), D838

Work length3:16

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Schubert: Ave Maria, D839

Work length6:39

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Recorded: August 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, United Kingdom

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Schubert’s empathy with women is everywhere evident in his body of songs, which include songs to, by, about and for women. Devised by Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, the present recital brings us each of those possibilities and more.

The playwright Helmina von Chézy wrote the text to the tender Romanze, intending it for her play Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus to which Schubert composed incidental music. Another female author, Marianne von Willemer, wrote the two Suleika poems for Goethe, who included them (under his own name) in the collection West-östlicher Divan. And no less than seven of the other songs on the disc are also associated with Goethe, and his characters Mignon (from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) and Gretchen (from Faust). Schubert was for a while almost obsessed with the mysterious and waif-like Mignon, making several settings of the poems associated with her. Less of an enigma but equally moving, Schubert’s Gretchen sings of awakening desire (Gretchen am Spinnrade) and laments her coming disgrace (Gretchens Bitte).

Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have collaborated on several acclaimed projects for BIS, most recently with the counter-tenor Iestyn Davies as their companion. Here they close their Soprano’s Schubertiade with three settings of poems by Walter Scott, albeit in German translations. The three ‘Ellen Songs’ are from the verse-romance The Lady of the Lake from 1810, with the last one, ‘Schubert’s Ave Maria’, being one of the composer’s best-known and most loved compositions.

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