Lana Bode & Samantha Crawford – Dream.Risk.Sing: Elevating Women’s Voices (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:40 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
Conceived by soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode with the aim of telling often unheard stories about womanhood primarily through women’s own words and music, dream.risk.singbrings together songs about adolescence, bodies, love, work and legacy, while a palpable thread running throughout reminds listeners of the constraints on freedom that still exist in women’s lives.
ringing forward this subject matter – far from the staple of traditional song recitals – has involved Crawford and Bode in commissioning new music and reviving other, often unfamiliar repertoire, and the album includes a new song-cycle by Charlotte Bray, new arrangements of two songs from Judith Weir’s groundbreaking cycle woman.life.song, recent works by Helen Grime, Libby Larsen and others, as well as earlier twentieth-century contributions from Rebecca Clarke and Florence Price.
Tracklist:
01. Samantha Crawford – Love After 1950: No. 3, Big Sister Says, 1967 (02:46)
02. Samantha Crawford – Gold into Diamonds: No. 3, Ballad (03:29)
03. Samantha Crawford – Sycamore Trees: My Mother is a Singer (03:11)
04. Samantha Crawford – woman.life.song: No. 1b, Breasts!! Song of the Innocent Wild-Child (05:36)
05. Samantha Crawford – woman.life.song: No. 1c. Edge (04:51)
06. Samantha Crawford – Crossing Faultlines: No. 1, In the Margins (04:35)
07. Samantha Crawford – Crossing Faultlines: No. 2, Like a Drum (01:52)
08. Samantha Crawford – Crossing Faultlines: No. 3, And Now Her Song (05:35)
09. Samantha Crawford – The Birth Project: No. 2, Pregnant (02:49)
10. Lana Bode – The Birth Project: No. 7, First Miracle (00:51)
11. Samantha Crawford – The Birth Project: No. 8, Superhero (01:38)
12. Samantha Crawford – Infant Joy (01:31)
13. Samantha Crawford – Bright Travellers: No. 4, Milk Fever (02:20)
14. Samantha Crawford – Bright Travellers: No. 5, Council Offices (03:24)
15. Samantha Crawford – The Heart of a Woman (01:44)
16. Samantha Crawford – Cigánské Melodie, Op. 55: No. 4, Když mne stará matka (02:22)
17. Samantha Crawford – My Daughters (02:57)
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