Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Komponistinnen – Women Composers – Compositrices (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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.

Tracklist:
01. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Clarke: June Twilight (03:02)
02. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Poldivski: L’heure exquise (02:20)
03. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Mahler: Laue Sommernacht (02:04)
04. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Beach: Ah, Love, but a Day (03:06)
05. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Schumann: Am Strande (02:34)
06. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Bosmans: Le regard éternel (03:30)
07. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Mundry: Hilf mir! Wer? (01:25)
08. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Jaëll: Le bonheur s’effeuille et passe (02:17)
09. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Wertheim: Die Insel der Vergessenheit (03:35)
10. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Rosenberger: Dying Is Fine – But Death (01:41)
11. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Mendelssohn-Hensel: Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass (02:11)
12. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Hall: Sleep, Mourner, Sleep! (01:30)
13. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Puig-Roget: Le diable dans la nuit (01:24)
14. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Bray: Yellow Leaves: No. 8, Farewell (01:55)
15. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Kerer: Nur der seinen leben (03:19)
16. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Maconchy: Ophelia’s Song (02:11)
17. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Bronsart: Lorelei (04:09)
18. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Roesgen-Champion: Le sommeil de Leilah (02:46)
19. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Dring: Song of a Nightclub Proprietress (02:57)
20. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Schonthal: Die ewige Liebe (02:37)
21. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Charrière: Ecouter et ne rien entendre (01:27)
22. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Lang: Ob ich manchmal Dein gedenke (02:24)
23. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Chaminade: Ma première lettre (02:04)
24. Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Tailleferre: Remembrance (01:08)