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Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams & Joseph Middleton - Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook (2023)

Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams & Joseph Middleton - Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 276 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:24:53
Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

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.
Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022)

Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 188 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:37
Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

Composed in feverish bouts interrupted by long periods of inaction, Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch was brought to completion in 1896. The 46 songs are settings of poems in German by Paul Heyse, after Italian folk songs – miniatures with a duration of less than 2 minutes in most cases. Heyse’s collection numbered more than 350 poems, but Wolf ignored the ballads and laments, and concentrated almost exclusively on the rispetti. These are short love poems which chart, against a Tuscan landscape, the everyday jealousies, flirtations, joys and despairs of men and women in love. Heyse’s translations often intensify the simple Italian of the original poems, and in their turn, Wolf’s settings represent a further heightening of emotion. Miniatures they may be, but many of the songs strike unforgettably at the heart.
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson & Graham Ross - Ice Land: The Eternal Music (2022)

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson & Graham Ross - Ice Land: The Eternal Music (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 299 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 184 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:49
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: harmonia mundi

Icelandic music of the last half century is the focus of this recording by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, led by its conductor, Graham Ross. Born from his close collaboration with the native composers of the “Land of Fire and Ice,” this programme sets out to explore and highlight their hypnotic soundworld, instinctively leaning towards contemplation. A prime example is the touchingly beautiful Requiem by Sigurður Sævarsson, which here receives its world premiere recording.

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 2, 2023
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)
Schumann, Britten, Purcell, Fauré, Gounod, R.Strauss, Schubert, Poulenc, Debussy, Boulanger

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 272 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2102 | Time: 01:08:50

Those of us who rejoice in the crystalline beauty of Carolyn Sampson’s interpretations of Bach, Handel and Purcell will welcome this bouquet of songs on a floral theme, her debut recital disc. It’s been a long wait, but our patience is repaid handsomely. With pianist Joseph Middleton she savours some choice blooms from, among others, Britten, Chabrier, Schubert, Schumann, Gounod and Strauss, her glorious soprano particularly affecting in Fauré’s Le papillon et la fleur and the wonderfully perfumed Les roses d’Ispahan. Middleton plays with dextrous delicacy throughout and brings real virtuosity to Strauss’s Mädchenblumen. Highly recommended.
Carolyn Sampson, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Pascal Rophé - Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (2021)

Carolyn Sampson, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Pascal Rophé - Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 262 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:43
Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

That Baïlèro, a shepherd’s song from the highlands of Auvergne sung in the Occitan dialect of the area, should become a favourite with singers ranging from Victoria de los Angeles to Sarah Brightman by way of Renée Fleming and Karita Mattila, is all because of Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret. As a budding composer in Paris in the 1900s, Canteloube was unable to interest himself in the various musical cliques and currents. Instead he looked for inspiration in Auvergne in central France where he was born, starting to collect the songs of the farmers and shepherds that lived in the mountainous region. But he did so as a composer rather than a musicologist, and between 1923 and 1954 he published a total of thirty Chants d’Auvergne, arranged, harmonized and sumptuously orchestrated.
Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 78:37 minutes | 1,22 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download

Composed in feverish bouts interrupted by long periods of inaction, Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch was brought to completion in 1896. The 46 songs are settings of poems in German by Paul Heyse, after Italian folk songs – miniatures with a duration of less than 2 minutes in most cases. Heyse’s collection numbered more than 350 poems, but Wolf ignored the ballads and laments, and concentrated almost exclusively on the rispetti.
Carolyn Sampson, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore - A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel (2014)

A French Baroque Diva: Arias for Marie Fel
by Lacoste, Lalande, Rameau, Rousseau, Fiocco & Mondonville
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 172 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68035 | Time: 01:12:55

GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2015 WINNER (RECITAL CATEGORY). A welcome return of Carolyn Sampson and Ex Cathedra to Hyperion, performing the rich, fulsome music of the French Baroque. Their recording of love songs from Rameau’s operas (Hyperion CDA67447) was hugely acclaimed for Sampson’s stylish, fluid, seductive performances, and ten years later her artistry is even more dazzling. This album is of particular interest as rather than concentrating on one composer it showcases the works written for the premiere soprano of the day, Marie Fel. Voltaire called her his ‘adorable nightingale’. For d’Aquin, she was an enchanted being. Marie Fel was the soprano who held an entire generation spellbound at the Paris Opéra and at Louis XV’s court during one of the most glorious periods of French music. With a voice described as ‘pure, charming, silvery’ (La Borde), ‘touching and sublime’ (Grimm) and ‘always lovely, always seductive’ (d’Aquin), she inspired some of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s finest music and introduced a whole new level of virtuosity and expression into the French singing tradition. Her long, triumphant career is traced through this fascinating recording.
Robin Blaze, Carolyn Sampson, Nicholas Kraemer - Handel: Great Oratorio Duets (2006)

Robin Blaze, Carolyn Sampson, Nicholas Kraemer, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Handel: Great Oratorio Duets (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 341 Mb | Total time: 70:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS ‎| # BIS-1436 SACD | Recorded: 2005

Pure delight: two of Britain’s most exciting singers together with one of the most vibrant of the English period bands, in a collection of wonderful duets from Händel’s English oratorios and odes. Both Carolyn Sampson and Robin Blaze collaborate with Masaaki Suzuki in his recordings of Bach Cantatas, for which they are receiving high praise. ‘Sampson's rounded, lyrical, glowing tone is just what I want to hear in the warm-hearted soprano cantata O holder Tag’ said the critic in International Record Review about BIS-CD-1411, whereas The Times, UK, has described Robin Blaze as being ‘blessed with a most alluring countertenor – creamy in tone, naturally expressive, exquisitely controlled…’.

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason In Madness (2019)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at June 26, 2024
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason In Madness (2019)

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason In Madness: Brahms, R. Strauss, Koechlin, Debussy, H. Wolf, Schubert, Schuman, Chausson, Duparc, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 74:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | BIS-2353 SACD | Recorded: 2018

Throughout history men have feared madwomen, burning them as witches, confining them in asylums and subjecting them to psychoanalysis – yet, they have also been fascinated, unable to resist fantasizing about them. For their new disc, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have created a programme that explores the responses of a variety of composers to women whose stories have left them vulnerable and exposed. As a motto they have chosen an aphorism by Nietzsche: ‘There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.’

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - A Verlaine Songbook (2016)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 20, 2023
Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - A Verlaine Songbook (2016)

Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - A Verlaine Songbook (2016)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 80:00 | 335 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-2233

Verlaine’s poetry lends itself well to music and many of his poems have been set successfully by numerous composers. Thus it was a brilliant idea to build a programme around Verlaine and include several settings of some of the poems. Since Carolyn Sampson has cast her net widely and included several rarely heard composers, we are offered a very comprehensive odyssey through the Verlainean waters.