Regula Mühlemann - Fairy Tales (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Magical beings like fairies, elves, witches or ghosts have always fascinated and inspired mankind. Especially in music, one encounters all these unreal creatures at every turn. Antonín Dvořák, for example, dedicated an entire opera to the mermaid "Rusalka". In Verdi's "Falstaff," a supposed fairy queen drums up a host of water and air spirits. And in Claudio Monteverdi's famous "Lamento della Ninfa," a nymph recounts her tragic love affliction

Swiss soprano Regula Mühlemann has now also slipped into these three female characters on her new album "Fairy Tales." From early Baroque to Romanticism to classical modernism, Mühlemann, together with the CHAARTS Chamber Artists from Switzerland, presents a musically fairy-tale-like, highly exciting panorama: In addition to excerpts from Jacques Offenbach's Grand Opéra "Die Rheinnixen" (including the "Barcarole," which was later reused in "The Tales of Hoffmann" and became world famous), the album combines vocal and instrumental pieces from Jules Massenet's Cinderella opera "Cendrillon," which premiered in 1899, and Adolphe Adam's fairy ballet "La Filleule des fées." The music from the Shakespeare operas by the Englishman Henry Purcell ("The Fairy Queen") and his compatriot Benjamin Britten ("A Midsummer Night's Dream") also takes us into the world of fairies. Towards the end of the album, Regula Mühlemann and CHAARTS turn their attention to the Nordic spirit world. Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem "Peer Gynt", based on Norwegian fairy tales, was the basis for Edvard Grieg's dramatic music of the same name. Here one encounters not only rumbling demons and trolls, but also tender, enchanting vocal pieces such as "Solveig's Song"

TRACKLIST

1 Rusalka, Op. 114, B. 203: Song to the Moon (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz) - Mühlemann, Regula & Chaarts Chamber Artists
2 Die Rheinnixen: Komm zu uns und sing und tanze, 'Barcarole' (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
3 Cendrillon, DO 5: Ah! Douce enfant (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
4 La filleule des fees: The Pink Fairy (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
5 Falstaff: Ninfe! Elfi! Silfi!…Sul fil d'un soffio etesio (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
6 Lamento della Ninfa, SV 163: Amor, amor (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz) - Mühlemann, Regula & Chaarts Chamber Artists
7 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: O let me weep ever, ever weep (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
8 The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: Turn then thine eyes (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
9 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: Be kind and courteous to this gentleman (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wol
10 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64: Come, now a roundel ans a fairy song (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfga
11 Neue Liebe, Op. 19a, No. 4/ MWV K 70 (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
12 I. Ingrid's Lament (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
13 II. Arabian Dance (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz) - Regula Mühlemann & Chaarts Chamber Artists
14 III. Peer Gynt's Homecoming, Stormy Evening on the Sea (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz) - Regula Mühlemann & Chaarts Chamber Artists
15 IV. Solveig's Song (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz) - Regula Mühlemann & Chaarts Chamber Artists
16 Peer Gynt, Op. 23, No. 26: Solveig's Cradle Song (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
17 Six Songs, Op. 25, No. 2: A Swan (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)
18 Die Rheinnixen: Alles hüllt sich in Dunkel (Arr. for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble by Wolfgang Renz)



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