專輯類型: 1SACD 發行年份: 2019 國際條碼: 7318599923536 音樂廠牌: BIS 卡洛琳.桑普森 女高音 喬瑟夫.米道頓 鋼琴 Throughout history men have feared madwomen, burning them as witches, confining them in asylums and subjecting them to psychoanalysis – yet, they have also been fascinated, unable to resist fantasizing about them. For their new disc, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have created a programme that explores the responses of a variety of composers to women whose stories have left them vulnerable and exposed. As a motto they have chosen an aphorism by Nietzsche: 'There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.' Brahms' Ophelia Songs, composed for a stage production of Hamlet, appear next to those by Richard Strauss and Chausson, while Ophelia's death is described by both Schumann (in Herzeleid) and SaintSaens. Goethe's mysterious and traumatized Mignon appears in settings by Hugo Wolf as well as Duparc, while his ill-used Gretchen grieves by her spinning-wheel in Schubert's matchless setting. Sadness and madness tip into witchery and unbridled eroticism with Pierre Louÿs's poems about Bilitis, set by Kœchlin and Debussy. Sampson and Middleton end their recital as it began, with a suicide by drowning: in Poulenc's monologue La Dame de Monte-Carlo, the elderly female protagonist has been unlucky at the gambling tables and decides to throw herself into the sea. BRAHMS | Ophelia-Lied Nr. 4 SCHUBERT | Gretchen am Spinnrade SCHUMANN | Herzeleid BRAHMS | Madchenlied STRAUSS | 3 Lieder der Ophelia SCHUMANN | Die Spinnerin KOECHLIN | Hymne à Astarte SAINT-SAeNS | La mort d'Ophelie DEBUSSY | Chansons de Bilitis CHAUSSON | Chanson d'Ophelie KOECHLIN | Épitaphe de Bilitis BRAHMS | 5 Ophelia-Lieder DUPARC | Romance de Mignon DUPARC | Au pays où se fait la guerre WOLF | Mignon-Lieder POULENC | La Dame de Monte-Carlo