Lines Written During a Sleepless Night - Art Songs / Alder, Middleton

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Chandos
Release Date
January 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Alder, Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2020
    • UPC
      095115215326
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20153
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Noch'u v sadu u menya (In my Garden at Night)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    2. No. 2. K ney (To Her)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    3. No. 3. Margaritki (Daisies)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    4. No. 4. Krisolov (The Rat-Catcher)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    5. No. 5. Son (A Dream)

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    6. No. 6. A-u!

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    7. 7 Songs, Op. 13: No. 4. Våren flyktar hastigt (Spring is Flying) (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    8. 6 Songs, Op. 36: No. 4. Säv, säv, susa (Reed, reed, rustle)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    9. No. 5. Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The girl returned from meeting her lover)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    10. No. 4. Var det en dröm? (Was it a dream?)

      Composer: Jean Sibelius

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    11. No. 1. Gruss (Greeting)

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    12. No. 2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein (One day, O heart of mine)

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    13. No. 3. Lauf der Welt (The Way of the World)

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    14. No. 4. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall (The Nightingale's Secret)

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    15. No. 5. Zur Rosenzeit (The Time of Roses)

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    16. No. 6. Ein Traum (A Dream)

      Composer: Edvard Grieg

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    17. No. 1. Sérénade: Où vas-tu, souffle d'aurore

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    18. No. 2. Déception

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    19. No. 3. Sérénade: J'aime dans le rayon

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    20. No. 4. Qu'importe que l'hiver

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    21. No. 5. Les larmes

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    22. No. 6. Rondel

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    23. 9 Goethe-Lieder, Op. 6: No. 2. Mailied

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    24. 12 Goethe-Lieder, Op. 15: No. 7. Meeresstille

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    25. No. 1. 'Ekho (Echo)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    26. No. 2. Ja dumal, serdce pozabylo (My Heart)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    27. No. 3. Angel (Angel)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    28. No. 4. Solovej i roza (The Nightingale and the Rose)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    29. No. 5. 'Epigramma (Epigram)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton

    30. No. 6. Stikhi, sochinennyje noch'ju vo vremja bessonnicy (Lines written during a sleepless night)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton


The soprano Louise Alder has been described as 'the brightest lyric soprano of the younger generation' (The Arts Desk),'a born actress' (Opera), and as having 'a voice of sparkling beauty' (Gramophone). In this her debut recording for Chandos, she and her pianist, Joseph Middleton, have devised an unusual but rewarding programme that explores the works of six contrasting composers. As she writes in her booklet note: ‘When Joseph suggested making an album of Russian songs, including Russian composers who set poems in other languages, I jumped at the challenge. The more we discussed the repertoire, the more amazed I was to see how well it fitted with my own family history. In 1916 (the same year that Rachmaninoff composed the Opus 38 songs), huge political unrest forced my great-grandparents and family to flee, shutting up the house in Odessa, travelling 1,687 km north by rail to St Petersburg, and then by sleigh into Finland, through Norway, and back to Britain. It is my pleasure to be able to honor my family’s Russian connection with this meandering sleigh ride through Russia, with songs in Russian, French, and German, into Finland, in Swedish, and Norway, in German, back to the UK for a cycle of Britten songs in Russian.’