Kitty Whately, Joseph Middleton – Befreit – A Soul Surrendered (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Kitty Whately, Joseph Middleton – Befreit – A Soul Surrendered (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:29 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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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. The opportunity to discover and research lesser-known composers from their era has been thrilling and fascinating. As the world endured the pandemic, we all experienced fear and danger and loss in a way that most of our generation never did before, on such a global scale. Joseph and I felt drawn to reflect on grief, mortality, and bereavement.’ The two lesser-known composers featured in the recording are Johanna Müller-Hermann (who studied with several of the most prominent teachers in Vienna – Josef Labor, Guido Adler, Alexander Zemlinsky, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Franz Schmidt) and Margarete Schweikert, who’s upbringing and life in Karlsruhe and studies with Joseph Haas in Stuttgart could hardly provide a greater contrast – clearly audible in their music.

Tracklist:

1-1. Kitty Whately – Wie eine Vollmondnacht, Op. 20 No. 4 (02:54)
1-2. Kitty Whately – Der letzte Abend, Op. 2 No. 4 (03:30)
1-3. Kitty Whately – Befreit, Op. 39, TrV 189 No. 4 (05:10)
1-4. Kitty Whately – Allerseelen, Op. 10, TrV 141 No. 8 (03:06)
1-5. Kitty Whately – Wolke I (01:36)
1-6. Kitty Whately – Totenhausen (04:26)
1-7. Kitty Whately – Zusammen sterben (02:02)
1-8. Kitty Whately – Auf ein Kind, Op. 47, TrV 200 No. 1 (02:15)
1-9. Kitty Whately – Rückleben, Op. 47, TrV 200 No. 3 (04:09)
1-10. Kitty Whately – Morgen!, Op. 27, TrV 170 No. 4 (04:05)
1-11. Kitty Whately – Die stille Stadt, Op. 4 No. 1 (02:20)
1-12. Kitty Whately – Herbst, Op. 20 No. 2 (02:53)
1-13. Kitty Whately – In Memoriam, Op. 28 No. 5 (02:31)
1-14. Kitty Whately – Unser Haus (02:40)
1-15. Kitty Whately – Die Entschlafenen (02:24)
1-16. Kitty Whately – No. 1, Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n! (04:40)
1-17. Kitty Whately – No. 2, Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (04:31)
1-18. Kitty Whately – No. 3, Wenn dein Mütterlein (04:05)
1-19. Kitty Whately – No. 4, Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen! (02:58)
1-20. Kitty Whately – No. 5, In diesem Wetter! (06:05)

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