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

Franziska Heinzen & Benjamin Mead – Komponistinnen – Women Composers – Compositrices (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:49 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

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.

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Franziska Heinzen – Les Six – Works by Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Franziska Heinzen – Les Six – Works by Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 49:42 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Solo Musica

Then as now, the music of Les Six is a fascinating kaleidoscope of musical ideas and friendship; an idiosyncratic preciousness full of musical avant-garde, everyday melancholy, profound curiosities, virtuosity and passion that is in need of rediscovery. The collaborative work LAlbum des Six was created in 1920, to which each of the six composers Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre contributed a piece. Arranged alphabetically, the album summarizes the composers through their connection with various aesthetic ideas, different personalities and lifelong friendship. 100 years later, the LAlbum des Six is expanded with corresponding song cycles from their oeuvres: In addition to well-known compositions by Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud, the first releases of the song cycles by Georges Auric (1940) and Louis Durey (1920) enrich the album in a special way.

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