Katharine Dain & Sam Armstrong – Forget This Night (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Katharine Dain & Sam Armstrong – Forget This Night (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:09:39 minutes | 2,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7 Mountain Records

Forget This Night explores impermanence and desire through songs by Lili Boulanger, Karol Szymanowski, and Grażyna Bacewicz. The heart of the program is Clairières dans le ciel, Lili Boulanger’s only song cycle and an overlooked masterpiece of the genre, which maps the interior emotional landscape of someone deeply in love—from blissful awe to the devastation of abandonment. The cycle is framed by songs of Szymanowski (a contemporary of Boulanger who was also writing music of simmering passion across the continent against the backdrop of the First World War) and Bacewicz, of a generation later, who treats the same themes in songs of fresh directness and aching lyricism.

Opening with Boulanger’s first extant song, Attente, and ending with the premiere recording of a fragment for solo voice she wrote at the very end of her life, Forget This Night poses a universal human question: how wholeheartedly can we open ourselves to relationships, and moments, that will inevitably end?

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Katharine Dain – Regards sur l’Infini (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Katharine Dain – Regards sur l’Infini (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:14 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 7 Mountain Records

Challenging times called for something desirous. The COVID-19 pandemic lead soprano Katharine Dain (US) and pianist Sam Armstrong (UK) to immerse themselves deeply into the excessive musical world of Messiaen, Debussy and three robustly related other composers: Dutilleux, Delbos and Saariaho.

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Katharine Dain, Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir, Edward Janning – Stolen Schubert (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Katharine Dain, Ásdís Valdimarsdóttir, Edward Janning – Stolen Schubert (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:18 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Zefir Records

To anyone who plays chamber music of any sort, Schubert’s music is a wonderful world to enter. It lifts our spirit to a dreamlike state of awe that is quite unique, with it sweeping long lines and pure poetry. The masterpieces on this cd were ‘stolen’ from Schubert’s original instrumentation. Start with the Arpeggione sonata, originally written for the ‘Arpeggione’, a bowed instrument with six strings and frets, tuned like a guitar but played like a gamba.
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