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The curious title of this album, the 100th by the wonderful soprano Carolyn Sampson, comes from Leonard Bernstein's I Hate Music, one of the Five Kid Songs he wrote in 1943; the but I like to sing ... album title is the consequent to the song's title. Sampson perfectly catches the wit of this song, which is certainly not only for children, and she is among the few non-American singers who can do a persuasive American accent with a full retroflex "r." Sampson indicates that while the program is not autobiographical, "it is personal, and I've chosen [the songs] because they reflect some of the ways in which music heightens our emotions, eases our pain, deepens our love." She goes on to say that these powers of music are especially needed at the current troubled historical juncture. All of this may be quite true, yet after hearing the album, one may think that it has a second purpose. Among all the beautiful voices on the scene in 2023, no other is as versatile as Sampson's. Bernstein is just the beginning. The program ranges from German to French to English, from chestnuts (Gounod's Ave Maria) to quite rare items (the 12 Chants de Bilitis by Rita Strohl, a fascinating comparison with Debussy's settings), from humorous to philosophical, from Schubert to the late Kaija Saariaho. It all hangs together miraculously, leaving the listener with the impression that Sampson is indeed in touch with deeper currents. This is indeed a joyous and fitting summation of the career to date of one of today's great sopranos, with much more to come.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Unknown, MusicPublisher - Hugo Wolf, Composer - Eduard Mörike, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Johannes Brahms, Composer - Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Franz Schubert, Composer - Franz von Schober, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Christina Rossetti, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Sir Charles Hubert Parry, Composer - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Leonard Bernstein, Composer, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - music Sales Ltd, MusicPublisher - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Composer - Jens Braun, Producer - Ada Lovelace, Lyricist
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Otto Erich Hartleben, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Marx, Composer - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer - Schuberthaus-Verlag, MusicPublisher
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Cesar Franck, Composer - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer - Louis de Forcaud, Lyricist
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Pierre Louys, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Pierre Louys, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Pierre Louys, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Rita Strohl, Composer - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Pierre Corneille, Lyricist - Emile Paladilhe, Composer - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Charles Gounod, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Louis Aragon, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Edition Salabert, MusicPublisher - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Francis Poulenc, Composer - Louis Aragon, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Edition Salabert, MusicPublisher - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Kaija Saariaho, Composer - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Chester Music Ltd, MusicPublisher - Amin Maalouf, Lyricist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
ManuScript, MusicPublisher - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Siegfried Sassoon, Lyricist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Deborah Pritchard, Composer - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Samuel Barber, Composer - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Alfred Noyes, Lyricist - Boosey & Hawkes, MusicPublisher - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Unknown, MusicPublisher - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Ivor Gurney, Composer - John Fletcher, Lyricist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Jack Liebeck, MainArtist - Unknown, MusicPublisher - Anonymous, Arranger - Richard Strauss, Composer - John Henry MacKay, Lyricist - Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Carolyn Sampson, MainArtist - Errollyn Wallen, Composer, Lyricist - Peters Edition Ltd, MusicPublisher - Joseph Middleton, MainArtist - Jens Braun, Producer
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
Albumbeschreibung
The curious title of this album, the 100th by the wonderful soprano Carolyn Sampson, comes from Leonard Bernstein's I Hate Music, one of the Five Kid Songs he wrote in 1943; the but I like to sing ... album title is the consequent to the song's title. Sampson perfectly catches the wit of this song, which is certainly not only for children, and she is among the few non-American singers who can do a persuasive American accent with a full retroflex "r." Sampson indicates that while the program is not autobiographical, "it is personal, and I've chosen [the songs] because they reflect some of the ways in which music heightens our emotions, eases our pain, deepens our love." She goes on to say that these powers of music are especially needed at the current troubled historical juncture. All of this may be quite true, yet after hearing the album, one may think that it has a second purpose. Among all the beautiful voices on the scene in 2023, no other is as versatile as Sampson's. Bernstein is just the beginning. The program ranges from German to French to English, from chestnuts (Gounod's Ave Maria) to quite rare items (the 12 Chants de Bilitis by Rita Strohl, a fascinating comparison with Debussy's settings), from humorous to philosophical, from Schubert to the late Kaija Saariaho. It all hangs together miraculously, leaving the listener with the impression that Sampson is indeed in touch with deeper currents. This is indeed a joyous and fitting summation of the career to date of one of today's great sopranos, with much more to come.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:16
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Carolyn Sampson Joseph Middleton
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Klassiek
2023 BIS Records AB 2023 BIS Records AB
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