Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton – Reason in Madness (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton – Reason in Madness (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:50 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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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 album, 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.’

Brahms’ Ophelia Songs, composed for a stage production of Hamlet, appear next to those by Richard Strauss and Chausson, while Ophelia’s death is described by both Schumann (in Herzeleid) and Saint-Saëns. Goethe’s mysterious and traumatized Mignon appears in settings by Hugo Wolf as well as Duparc, while his ill-used Gretchen grieves by her spinning-wheel in Schubert’s matchless setting. Sadness and madness tip into witchery and unbridled eroticism with Pierre Louÿs’s poems about Bilitis, set by Kœchlin and Debussy. Sampson and Middleton end their recital as it began, with a suicide by drowning: in Poulenc’s monologue La Dame de Monte-Carlo, the elderly female protagonist has been unlucky at the gambling tables and decides to throw herself into the sea

Tracklist:
1-1. Carolyn Sampson – Opheilia-Lieder, WoO 22 (Excerpts): No. 4, Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß (00:56)
1-2. Carolyn Sampson – Herzeleid, Op. 107 No. 1 (01:49)
1-3. Carolyn Sampson – 6 Lieder, Op. 67, TrV 238 (Excerpts): No. 1, Wie erkenn ich mein Treulieb vor andern nun? (02:27)
1-4. Carolyn Sampson – 6 Lieder, Op. 67, TrV 238 (Excerpts): No. 2, Guten Morgen, ‘s ist Sankt Valentinstag (01:09)
1-5. Carolyn Sampson – 6 Lieder, Op. 67, TrV 238 (Excerpts): No. 3, Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß (03:42)
1-6. Carolyn Sampson – Chansons de Bilitis, Op. 39: No. 1, Hymne à Astarté (01:54)
1-7. Carolyn Sampson – Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90: No. 1, La flûte de Pan (02:56)
1-8. Carolyn Sampson – Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90: No. 2, La chevelure (03:38)
1-9. Carolyn Sampson – Chansons de Bilitis, L. 90: No. 3, Le tombeau des naïades (03:04)
1-10. Carolyn Sampson – Chansons de Bilitis, Op. 39: No. 5, Épitaphe de Bilitis (03:40)
1-11. Carolyn Sampson – Op. 2 No. 3 (04:29)
1-12. Carolyn Sampson – Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts): No. 9, Kennst du das Land? (06:23)
1-13. Carolyn Sampson – Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts): No. 5, Mignon I “Heiß mich nicht reden” (03:45)
1-14. Carolyn Sampson – Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts): No. 6, Mignon II “Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt” (02:06)
1-15. Carolyn Sampson – Goethe-Lieder (Excerpts): No. 7, Mignon III “So lasst mich scheiden, bis ich werde” (03:40)
1-16. Carolyn Sampson – Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118 (03:46)
1-17. Carolyn Sampson – Mädchenlied, Op. 107 No. 5 (01:43)
1-18. Carolyn Sampson – Die Spinnerin, Op. 107 No. 4 (01:24)
1-19. Carolyn Sampson – La mort d’Ophélie (03:14)
1-20. Carolyn Sampson – Chansons de Shakespeare, Op. 28: No. 3, Chanson d’Ophélie (01:44)
1-21. Carolyn Sampson – Opheilia-Lieder, WoO 22 (Excerpts): No. 1, Wie erkenn ich dein Treublieb? (04:07)
1-22. Carolyn Sampson – Au pays où se fait la guerre (05:14)
1-23. Carolyn Sampson – FP 180 (Arr. for Voice & Piano) (07:49)

Personnel:
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano

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