Composer: Alfred Bachelet, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Ferencz Liszt, Sergey Rachmaninov
Performer: Camilla Harris, Natalie Burch
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD706
Release: 2022
Size: 660 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Liszt: O quand je dors (Hugo), S282
02. Liszt: S’il est un charmant gazon, S284
03. Liszt: Comment, disaient-ils (Hugo), S276
04. Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca ‘Pace non trovo’, S270 No. 1
05. Bachelet: Chère nuit
06. Grieg: Seks Sange, Op. 48 No. 6 ‘Ein Traum’
Rachmaninov: Songs, Op. 38
07. No. 1, Noch’yu v sadu u menya
08. No. 2, K ney
09. No. 3, Margaritki
10. No. 4, Krïsolov
11. No. 5, Son
12. No. 6, A-u!
As part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series, lyric soprano Camilla Harris makes her recording debut with a programme which interweaves the themes of love, longing and the female muse. Taking Rachmaninov’s melancholic Six Songs, Op. 38 – inspired by the composer’s duo partner and lover, soprano Nina Koshetz – as the initial catalyst, Camilla performs four settings by Liszt on the poetry of Victor Hugo, each redolent of love and longing and with several allusions to a female muse; she also treats us to two little gems: Chère nuit by the French post-Romantic composer Alfred Bachelet and Grieg’s irresistible Ein Traum from Sechs Lieder, Op. 48.
In 2022, four exceptional recipients of the Academy’s 2020/21 Bicentenary Scholarships scheme – Julie Park, Camilla Harris, Ossian Huskinson and Charlie Lovell-Jones – will each release a new album to coincide with the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary celebrations.