Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Komponistinnen (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The award-winning song duo with the Swiss soprano Franziska Andrea Heinzen and the British-Polish–German pianist Benjamin Malcolm Mead has now thrilled audiences from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, Cologne, London and Switzerland with its finely tuned song programs – and on Swiss radio SRF Kultur as well as on BBC Radio 3.

Through the finely tuned concert programs, highest musicality and unique stage presence, a song recital with the Swiss soprano Franziska Heinzen and the German-English-Polish pianist Benjamin Mead becomes a special concert experience, which lets you experience the great topics of life through music and literature updated: At the “Düsseldorf Festival” 2017, a “Rhenish love spell” sounded during a boat trip, Settings of Goethe and the Sentimental poets were the guiding principle of their debut in the Schubert cycle “Schubertiada a Vilabertran” at “L’Auditori” in Barcelona 2018. In 2019, the song duo followed the invitation to design a contemporary song recital in the concert series “Im Zentrum Lied” in Cologne and presented their composer program around Clara Schumann’s 200th birthday. Birthday at the “Schumannfest Düsseldorf” and at the “Rhonefestival für Liedkunst”. The latter, as well as the song recital dedicated to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, was recorded and broadcast by “Schweizer Radio SRF 2 Kultur”. The Rilke programme was also very popular in England and was broadcast on “BBC Radio 3”. In February 2021, her debut album around the French composer group Les Six was released as a co-production with the “Schweizer Radio SRF 2 Kultur” on the label “Solo Musica München”. In October 2021, a recording of 24 composers from Romanticism to contemporary music will follow, also on the Solo Musica label in a co-production with SRF 2 Kultur and sound engineer Andreas Werner.

Tracklist:
1-1. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – June Twilight (03:02)
1-2. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – L’heure exquise (02:20)
1-3. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 3, Laue Sommernacht (02:04)
1-4. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 1, Ah, Love, but a Day (Version for Voice & Piano) (03:06)
1-5. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Am Strande (02:34)
1-6. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 2, Le regard éternel (03:30)
1-7. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Hilf mir! Wer? (01:25)
1-8. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Le bonheur s’effeuille et passe (02:17)
1-9. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Die Insel der Vergessenheit (03:35)
1-10. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 2, Dying Is Fine, but Death (Version for Voice & Piano) (01:41)
1-11. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 3, Warum sind denn die Rosen so blaß (02:11)
1-12. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 4, Sleep, Mourner, Sleep! (01:30)
1-13. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 4, Le diable dans la nuit (01:24)
1-14. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 8, Farewell (01:55)
1-15. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 4, Nur der seinen leben (03:19)
1-16. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Ophelia’s Song (02:11)
1-17. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Die Loreley (04:09)
1-18. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Le sommeil de Leilah (02:46)
1-19. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Song of a Nightclub Proprietress (02:57)
1-20. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 2, Die ewige Liebe (02:37)
1-21. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 2, Écouter et ne rien entendre (01:27)
1-22. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 23, Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke (02:24)
1-23. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – Ma première lettre (02:04)
1-24. Franziska Andrea Heinzen – No. 2, Remembrance (01:08)