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Franziska Andrea Heinzen, Benjamin Mead – Eugen Meier: Lieder us um Tal (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 19:24 minutes | 324 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
This recording by the Swiss soprano Franziska Heinzen, accompanied by the pianist Benjamin Mead, is on the one hand a declaration of love to Franziska Heinzen’s home canton of Valais, and on the other hand a homage to the art of Swiss song: the starting point is the song cycle “Lieder us um Tal” (1981) by Eugen Meier on Valais German poems by Hannes Taugwalder (1910-2007), which is thematically expanded with selected songs by Swiss composers of the last two centuries.
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Liam Bonthrone and Benjamin Mead – Soirée parisienne: Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:19 minutes | 677 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Linn Records
The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series sees tenor Liam Bonthrone make his recording debut. Soirée parisienne takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of Parisian salons, which were the epicentre of the cultural scene in nineteenth-century France. These social gatherings provided a platform for new and established composers to showcase their works to a discerning audience and introduce new musical styles and trends. Accompanied by pianist Benjamin Mead, Liam Bonthrone highlights the contributions of three of the most influential salonnières of their time: Pauline Viardot, Comtesse Élisabeth Greffulhe and Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac. Liam Bonthrone is one of the exceptional artists, including Xiaowen Shang (piano), Cassandra Wright (soprano) and Anna Im (violin), who are the recent recipients of the Academy’s Bicentenary Scholarships scheme.
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Franziska Andrea Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Lieder us um Tal – An Homage to Swiss Art Song (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:03 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
The Swiss soprano Franziska Andrea Heinzen holds degrees with honours from the music universities of Zurich and Düsseldorf. She completed her vocal art by participating in masterclasses with renowned musicians across numerous disciplines, including vocal coaches (Hedwig Fassbender, Krisztina Laki and Konrad Jarnot), Early Music specialists (Andreas Scholl, Emma Kirkby) as well as various Lied masterclasses with Wolfram Rieger, Ulrich Eisenlohr, Julius Drake, Malcolm Martineau and Hartmut Höll.
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Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Komponistinnen – Women Composers – Compositrices (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:49 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica
The Heinzen-Mead Duo’s second album on solo musica celebrates the song repertoire of women composers from Romanticism to our current days with twenty-four songs by twenty-four women composers. The Swiss soprano Franziska Heinzen and British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin Mead set out to research the work of women composers for Clara Schumann’s bicentenary in 2019 – and discovered a valuable treasure of relatively unknown music. Beginning with a life journey through refreshing spring feelings, the album goes on to describe painful hours of loneliness and uncertainty as well as anxious premonitions of death and dark fears. Five examples of self-confident female characters, whose experiences are concluded with wiser, reflections on life, as seen retrospectively.
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