Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton – Lines Written During a Sleeplesss Night: The Russian Connection (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton – Lines Written During a Sleeplesss Night: The Russian Connection (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:34 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos

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 a CD 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 honour 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.’

Tracklist:

01. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 1, In My Garden at Night (01:52)
02. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 2, To Her (02:47)
03. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 3, Daisies (02:28)
04. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 4, The Rat-Catcher (02:41)
05. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 5, A Dream (03:22)
06. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 38: No. 6, A-u! (02:22)
07. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 7 Songs, Op. 13: No. 4, Våren flyktar hastigt (01:39)
08. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 36: No. 4, Säv, säv, susa (02:38)
09. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 5 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts): No. 5, Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (03:04)
10. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 5 Songs, Op. 37 (Excerpts): No. 4, Var det en dröm? (02:11)
11. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 48: No. 1, Gruß (01:08)
12. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 48: No. 2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein (02:42)
13. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 48: No. 3, Lauf der Welt (01:38)
14. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 48: No. 4, Die verschwiegene Nachtigall (03:34)
15. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 48: No. 5, Zur Rosenzeit (03:00)
16. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Songs, Op. 48: No. 6, Ein Traum (02:27)
17. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Mélodies, Op. 65, TH 108: No. 1, Sérénade (01:45)
18. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Mélodies, Op. 65, TH 108: No. 2, Déception (02:28)
19. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Mélodies, Op. 65, TH 108: No. 3, Sérénade (02:11)
20. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Mélodies, Op. 65, TH 108: No. 4, Qu’importe que l’hiver (02:30)
21. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Mélodies, Op. 65, TH 108: No. 5, Les larmes (03:05)
22. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 6 Mélodies, Op. 65, TH 108: No. 6, Rondel (01:11)
23. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 9 Goethe-Lieder, Op. 6: No. 2, Mailied (01:50)
24. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – 12 Goethe-Lieder, Op. 15: No. 7, Meeresstille (03:15)
25. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – The Poet’s Echo, Op. 76: No. 1, Echo (02:58)
26. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – The Poet’s Echo, Op. 76: No. 2, My Heart (01:33)
27. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – The Poet’s Echo, Op. 76: No. 3, Angel (02:26)
28. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – The Poet’s Echo, Op. 76: No. 4, The Nightingale and the Rose (03:51)
29. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – The Poet’s Echo, Op. 76: No. 5, Epigram (00:52)
30. Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton – The Poet’s Echo, Op. 76: No. 6, Lines Written During a Sleepless Night (03:57)

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