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PURCELL / MENDELSSOHN / SCHUMANN / QUILTER
Lost Is My Quiet - Duets and Solo Songs Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor) Joseph Middleton (piano) [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Sep/2017 ] "Carolyn Sampson and Iestyn Davies make a symbiotic partnership in these assorted duets, their tone (not least their control of vibrato) and style ideally matched. They are compelling interpreters, too, with an infectious sense of shared enjoyment." |
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SAINT-SAENS / DEBUSSY / RAVEL / FAURE / SEVERAC / HAHN / etc
A Verlaine Songbook: settings of poems by Paul Verlaine Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "Sampson adores these songs, caressing the text with her beautiful, pure soprano, particularly those that dwell on the correlation between nature and the emotions. Her partnership with Middleton is inspired, his intelligence always evident." The Guar |
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HERBIG / MOZART / FLEISCHER / WOLFF / HAYDN
Trennung - Songs of Separation Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Mar/2022 ] "...with immaculate German and elegant delivery, is perfectly matched by Bezuidenhout's endlessly inventive imagination...Enjoy a long soak in this luxurious bath of classy, 18th-century suffering." BBC Music |
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PURCELL
Victorious Love Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Lawrence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet) Elizabeth Kenny (archlute & thearbo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] One of the most exciting young sopranos to emerge in recent years, Carolyn Sampson was born in Bedford, studied music at the University of Birmingham and lives in London. She made her opera début with English National Opera as Amor in The Coronation... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas (Vol 41) (Nos BWV56, 82, 84, 156) Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Peter Kooij (bass) / Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] Masaaki Suzuki here concentrates on the so-called solo cantatas, providing an opportunity for two of the highly acclaimed soloists of this series, Carolyn Sampson and Peter Kooij, to shine even more brightly. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] The 37 songs in this recital, written by 27 composers - male, female, English, French, Swiss, German, Romantic, modern and contemporary - bear witness to the richness of Shakespeare's works to which this recital is dedicated. |
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MARIE-JOSEPH CANTELOUBE
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Tapiola Sinfonietta, Pascal Rophé [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Sep/2021 ] "Carolyn Sampson is a delightful and highly engaging soloist. She sings the slow, lyrical songs beautifully, investing words and music with great feeling." Recording of the Month Oct 2021 MusicWeb |
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MARCELLE DE MANZIARLY
Marcelle de Manziarly: Chamber Works Cecilia Zilliacus (soloist), Kati Raitinen (soloist), Bengt Forsberg (soloist), Take5 (immersiveaudioengineer, immersivemasteringengineer), Peter Frii [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/May/2024 ] A significant number of women were active as professional composers in inter-war France. Although they worked alongside their male peers and were accepted by concert organisers, performers, critics and audiences alike, they are little known today,... |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonatas Cecilia Zilliacus (violin), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Stephen Fitzpatrick (harp) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] "Wonderfully vivid, alive and completely committed - but most importantly beautiful - Saint-Saëns performances from violinist Cecilia Zilliacus and colleagues. " Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2023 |
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MARCELLE de MANZIARLY
Marcelle de Manziarly - Chamber Works Cecilia Zilliacus (violin) Kati Raitinen (cello) Bengt Forsberg, Peter Friis Johansson (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] De Manziarly - a major musical force to rediscover |
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FAZIL SAY / HSIAO TYZEN / YU JULIAN /
Memories Lost Chen Sa, piano / Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Chung Yiu-Kwong [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jan/2015 ] In a (mostly) Chinese programme Chen Sa presents a series of works - both solo and concertante - of which several deal with memories, nostalgia and the recreation of impressions. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 74 & Op. 130 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "The warmth and earthiness of the instruments' tone produces results that are haunting in the tenth quartet and shattering in the thirteenth." Sunday Times |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20 Nos 4-6 (Vol. 2) Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2017 ] The so-called 'Sun' quartets of Joseph Haydn's Op. 20 are often said to represent an unprecedented flowering of his string quartet writing, establishing a high watermark to which every other subsequent composer of quartets has paid homage. The six... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos 1-3 Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2020 ] "With the Chiaroscuro Quartet you truly get the best of all musical worlds ... these gifted players relish the expressive potential of their instruments with a bracing instinct for emotional narrative." Strad |
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: The Prussian Quartets Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Nov/2022 ] "The group's collective tone is rounded and unexaggeratedly warm, with a gentle degree of vibrato emerging and flowering as each expressive moment requires" BBC Music |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: String Quartets No 9 & No 14 "Death and the Maiden" Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Oct/2018 ] "Light and shade abound in performances of brisk, fierce beauty" The Strad |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: 'Sun' Quartets Op.20, Nos. 1-3 (Vol. 1) Chiaroscuro Quartet [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "memorable, too, are their fine line-drawing and acute response to the ebb and flow of harmonic tension" Gramophone |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN / ROBERT FRANZ / FRANZ LISZT
Im schönen Strome - Heine Lieder Christian Immler (baritone) / Georges Starobinski (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Aug/2015 ] Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, Starobinski and the baritone Christian Immler present these - all Heine settings but from different opus groups - in the form of two 'imagined' song cycles |
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TORU TAKEMITSU
How slow the wind: Orchestra Music Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo conducted by Tadaaki Otaka [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "It is rare to find a disc as creatively programmed as this BIS release. Enhanced by lovely performances, played with great devotion to the memory of the recently-deceased Japanese master, the repertoire was chosen by conductor Tadaaki Otaka and... |
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CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Christian Lindberg - 2017 Christian Lindberg (trombone/conductor), Evelyn Glennie (percussion) / Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, The New Trombone Collective [ BIS SACD / SACD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Christian Lindberg conducts - and plays - his own orchestral scores. |