Composer: Nadia Boulanger, Rebecca Clarke, Emilie Mayer, Clara Schumann, Kathleen Tagg
Performer: Golda Schultz, Jonathan Ware
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA799
Release: 2022
Size: 0.98 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Schumann: Liebst du um Schönheit, Op. 12 No. 4
02. Schumann: Warum willst du and’re fragen, Op. 12 No. 11
03. Schumann: Am Strande
04. Schumann: Lorelei
05. Mayer: Erlkönig
06. Mayer: Du bist wie eine Blume, Op. 7
07. Mayer: Abendstern, Op. 7
08. Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens
09. Clarke: The Tiger
10. Clarke: Cradle Song
11. Clarke: The Seal Man
12. Boulanger: La Mer Est Plus Belle
13. Boulanger: Priere
14. Boulanger: Élégie
15. Boulanger: Cantique
Tagg: This be her verse
16. After Philip Larkin
17. Wedding
18. Single Bed
“What if a woman wrote the song?”
This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware. Opening with works by Clara Schumann and Emilie Mayer (including her setting of the ballad Erlkönig), this recital weaves stories of women’s experience with fantastic tales of powerful sirens like the Lorelei. The great American-British violist and composer Rebecca Clarke’s arresting William Blake settings offer a woman’s perspective on texts also set by Benjamin Britten. Devotional works from Nadia Boulanger reveal a compositional master in her own right, in addition to her legendary status as pedagogue to innumerable greats including Aaron Copland and Daniel Barenboim. “This be Her Verse”, a song cycle by poet-librettist Lila Palmer and composer Kathleen Tagg was directly commissioned by the artists to conclude the programme and add an important contribution to the repertory.