but I like to sing... / Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton

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Release Date
November 3, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Johannes Brahms, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Cesar Franck, Charles Gounod
    • PERFORMER
      Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton, Jack Liebeck
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 03, 2023
    • UPC
      7318599926735
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2673
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. Mörike Lieder: No. 11. An eine Äolsharfe

      Composer: Hugo Wolf

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    2. 5 Lieder, Op. 49: No. 2. An ein Veilchen

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    3. An die Musik, Op. 88, No. 4, D. 547

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    4. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1. My Heart is Like a Singing Bird

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    5. I Hate Music: No. 3. I Hate Music!

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    6. Something More Than Mortal

      Composer: Cheryl Frances-Hoad

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    7. 6 Gesänge, Op. 34: No. 2. Auf Flügeln des Gesänges (On Wings of Song), MWV K86

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    8. Lieder und Gesänge, Vol. 3: No. 1. Nocturne

      Composer: Joseph Marx

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    9. Nocturne, M. 85

      Composer: César Franck

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    10. No. 9. Bilitis

      Composer: Rita Strohl

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    11. No. 11. La Nuit

      Composer: Rita Strohl

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    12. No. 12. Berceuse

      Composer: Rita Strohl

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    13. Psyché

      Composer: Émile Paladilhe

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    14. Ave Maria (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    15. No. 1. C

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    16. No. 2. Fêtes galantes

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    17. 4 Instants: No. 3. Parfum de l'instant

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    18. Everyone Sang

      Composer: Deborah Pritchard

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    19. A Slumber Song of the Madonna

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    20. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4. Sleep

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    21. 4 Lieder, Op. 27, TrV 170: No. 4. Morgen (arr. for voice, violin and piano)

      Composer: Richard Strauss

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Jack Liebeck, Joseph Middleton

    22. Peace on Earth

      Composer: Errollyn Wallen

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton


After many acclaimed releases on BIS, most recently ‘Sounds and Sweet Airs – A Shakespeare Songbook’ (BIS-2653), Carolyn Sampson’s latest recital with Joseph Middleton lives up to its name: it is an eloquent testimony to the English soprano’s love of her art. This programme artfully blends well-known and lesser-known lieder by German and Austrian masters such as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf with French songs by Gounod, Poulenc and Franck, as well as works by Anglo-Saxon composers such as Hubert Parry, Samuel Barber and Ivor Gurney. Female composers are not forgotten, with rarely-performed songs by Rita Strohl based on slightly risqué poems by Pierre Louÿs, music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Kaija Saariaho – who has recently passed away – and Deborah Pritchard, whose song presented here was composed especially for Sampson. And while Leonard Bernstein’s comically cheeky song ‘I hate music’, appears to be a call not to let music take itself too seriously, Errollyn Wallen’s ‘Peace on Earth’, which concludes the album, invokes calm and encourages us to find peace, a message that seems more relevant today than ever.