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    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton, Michael Collins - Schubert's Four Seasons (2025)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton, Michael Collins - Schubert's Four Seasons (2025)

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton, Michael Collins - Schubert's Four Seasons (2025)
    WEB FLAC (Tracks +Booklet) 255 MB | Cover | 01:15:42 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 183 MB
    Classical | Label: BIS

    After A Soprano’s Schubertiade (BIS2343) and Elysium (BIS2573), Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present a new recital devoted to Schubert’s songs on the theme of the changing seasons.

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason In Madness (2019)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason In Madness (2019)

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Reason In Madness: Brahms, R. Strauss, Koechlin, Debussy, H. Wolf, Schubert, Schuman, Chausson, Duparc, Saint-Saëns, Poulenc (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 259 Mb | Total time: 74:50 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | BIS-2353 SACD | Recorded: 2018

    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.’

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Fleurs (2015)
    Schumann, Britten, Purcell, Fauré, Gounod, R.Strauss, Schubert, Poulenc, Debussy, Boulanger

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 272 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2102 | Time: 01:08:50

    Those of us who rejoice in the crystalline beauty of Carolyn Sampson’s interpretations of Bach, Handel and Purcell will welcome this bouquet of songs on a floral theme, her debut recital disc. It’s been a long wait, but our patience is repaid handsomely. With pianist Joseph Middleton she savours some choice blooms from, among others, Britten, Chabrier, Schubert, Schumann, Gounod and Strauss, her glorious soprano particularly affecting in Fauré’s Le papillon et la fleur and the wonderfully perfumed Les roses d’Ispahan. Middleton plays with dextrous delicacy throughout and brings real virtuosity to Strauss’s Mädchenblumen. Highly recommended.

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - Elysium: a Schubert Recital (2023)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 236 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2573 | Recorded: 2020, 2021

    The last years of Schubert's life were clouded by illness, so thoughts of the afterlife cannot have been far from his mind. For their latest recital for BIS, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton present an all-Schubert recital themed around Elysium, the mythical idea of a blessed and happy eternal future, with texts that explore different states of the afterlife by well-known authors such as Goethe, Rückert and Schiller as well as by lesser-known ones.

    Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams & Joseph Middleton - Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook (2023)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams & Joseph Middleton - Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook (2023)

    Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams & Joseph Middleton - Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook (2023)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 276 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 201 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:24:53
    Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

    The 37 songs in this recital, written by 27 composers – male, female, English, French, Swiss, German, Romantic, modern and contemporary – bear witness to the richness of Shakespeare’s works to which this recital is dedicated.

    Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton - Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023)

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    Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton - Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023)

    Kitty Whately & Joseph Middleton - Befreit: A Soul Surrendered (2023)
    EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | Digital booklet | 01:08:18 | 255 Mb
    Classical, Vocal | Label: Chandos Records

    Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately trained at Chetham's School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the International Opera School of the Royal College of Music. Having won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and Royal Overseas League Award in the same year, she attended the prestigious Academy of the Verbier Festival. She writes of this project: 'It has been my great pleasure to record with Joseph once again. We have long shared a mutual passion for early-twentieth-century-romantic Lieder and talked of making a disc including songs by Mahler and Strauss.

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - A Verlaine Songbook (2016)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - A Verlaine Songbook (2016)

    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton - A Verlaine Songbook (2016)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 80:00 | 335 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-2233

    Verlaine’s poetry lends itself well to music and many of his poems have been set successfully by numerous composers. Thus it was a brilliant idea to build a programme around Verlaine and include several settings of some of the poems. Since Carolyn Sampson has cast her net widely and included several rarely heard composers, we are offered a very comprehensive odyssey through the Verlainean waters.

    Samuel Hasselhorn, Joseph Middleton - Franz Schubert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (2022)

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    Samuel Hasselhorn, Joseph Middleton - Franz Schubert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (2022)

    Samuel Hasselhorn, Joseph Middleton - Schubert: Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe (2022)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 71:45 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM902689 | Recorded: 2021

    His debut recording devoted to Schumann offered a brilliant opportunity to discover the name of Samuel Hasselhorn, a young baritone deeply invested in the art of lieder. With his collaborator Joseph Middleton, he now turns to Schubert, in an insightful programme evoking some of the themes dear to the Viennese master of song: nature, night-time, parting, absence, and death. Both essential and less familiar songs are featured side by side in this poignant depiction of profound self-reflection that can rank among the most moving examples of what the Romantic temperament has ever produced.

    Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022)

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    Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022)

    Carolyn Sampson, Allan Clayton & Joseph Middleton - Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 260 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 188 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:18:37
    Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

    Composed in feverish bouts interrupted by long periods of inaction, Hugo Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch was brought to completion in 1896. The 46 songs are settings of poems in German by Paul Heyse, after Italian folk songs – miniatures with a duration of less than 2 minutes in most cases. Heyse’s collection numbered more than 350 poems, but Wolf ignored the ballads and laments, and concentrated almost exclusively on the rispetti. These are short love poems which chart, against a Tuscan landscape, the everyday jealousies, flirtations, joys and despairs of men and women in love. Heyse’s translations often intensify the simple Italian of the original poems, and in their turn, Wolf’s settings represent a further heightening of emotion. Miniatures they may be, but many of the songs strike unforgettably at the heart.

    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love: Mahler, Ives, Grime (2021)

    Posted By: ArlegZ
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love: Mahler, Ives, Grime (2021)

    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love: Mahler, Ives, Grime (2021)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 231 Mb | Total time: 74:12 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2468 | Recorded: 2019

    After appearing on a quartet of very different BIS releases, ranging from early baroque arias to orchestral songs by Alban Berg and Mahler’s ‘Resurrection Symphony’, the British soprano Ruby Hughes has devised a song recital, together with her regular Lieder partner Joseph Middleton. The process began in 2018 when the two gave the world première of Helen Grime’s Bright Travellers, a set of five poems charting the interior and exterior worlds of pregnancy and motherhood. Ruby Hughes soon set about planning a programme which would converge with Grime’s music and the themes of new life and of love in all its aspects.

    Iestyn Davies & Joseph Middleton - Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2022)

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    Iestyn Davies & Joseph Middleton - Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2022)

    Iestyn Davies & Joseph Middleton - Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (2022)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 227 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 150 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:20
    Classical, Vocal | Label: Signum Classics

    Renowned performers Iestyn Davies and Joseph Middleton perform Schubert’s tragic song-cycle Die schöne Müllerin (The Beautiful Maid of the Mill).

    Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton - Chère Nuit (2021)

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    Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton - Chère Nuit (2021)

    Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton - Chère Nuit (2021)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 80:10 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Chandos Records | # CHAN 20222 | Recorded: 2020

    The acclaimed British soprano Louise Alder returns for her second recital on Chandos, joined once again by star pianist Joseph Middleton. Enthusiastic praise was widespread for her Chandos début, Lines Written during a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection, which earned significant accolades in the USA and continental Europe in addition to the UK. For this recording the pair explore a rich and varied selection of French songs from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Louse Alder writes: 'I have always held French song very dear to my heart and when we settled on this wildly varied programme, I quickly grew excited at the prospect of exploring the art form in virtually all its styles. From Ravel to Yvain, I hope we paint pictures of a French evening, of mystery, intrigue, discovery, seduction, love, and blissful night.'

    Ruby Hughes & Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love (2021)

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    Ruby Hughes & Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love (2021)

    Ruby Hughes & Joseph Middleton - Songs for New Life and Love (2021)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 213 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:13:52
    Classical, Vocal | Label: BIS

    After appearing on a quartet of very different BIS releases, ranging from early baroque arias to orchestral songs by Alban Berg and Mahler’s ‘Resurrection Symphony’, the British soprano Ruby Hughes has devised a song recital, together with her regular Lieder partner Joseph Middleton. The process began in 2018 when the two gave the world première of Helen Grime’s Bright Travellers, a set of five poems charting the interior and exterior worlds of pregnancy and motherhood. Ruby Hughes soon set about planning a programme which would converge with Grime’s music and the themes of new life and of love in all its aspects.

    Joseph Middleton & Samuel Hasselhorn - Schumann: Stille Liebe (2020)

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    Joseph Middleton & Samuel Hasselhorn - Schumann: Stille Liebe (2020)

    Joseph Middleton & Samuel Hasselhorn - Schumann: Stille Liebe (2020)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 237 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:04:21
    Classical, Vocal | Label: harmonia mundi

    Nearly every setting of the poems by Kerner, Chamisso, Andersen and Heine heard in this recital dates from 1840, the year Schumann found himself totally engrossed with the song genre, producing no fewer than 138 individual lieder. This creative vein seems to mirror the inner torments that gripped the young composer at the time, while revealing the extraordinary range of his musical invention and unequalled talent of storyteller, as Samuel Hasselhorn demonstrates here, after winning first prize at the 2018 Queen Elisabeth Competition: the young German baritone’s first recording for harmonia mundi is a veritable love letter to this most intimate of art forms.

    Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton - Come to Me in My Dreams (2018)

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    Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton - Come to Me in My Dreams (2018)

    Sarah Connolly, Joseph Middleton - Come to Me in My Dreams (2018)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:18 | 328 MB
    Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10944

    Sleep is a common enough subject in art song, and Come to Me in My Dreams, a recital by mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton, isn't the only one. It may well, however, be the best. There are numerous attractions, starting with Connolly's voice, seeming to catch the mixture of clarity and seductiveness in the sleep phenomenon. Connolly touches on some little-known numbers, including a gem by the still rarely heard Muriel Herbert right at the beginning (sample the unaccompanied opening, and you'll be hooked for the duration). The music is all British, mostly from between the world wars, and all more or less similar in tone, although there's some splendid poetry involved.