A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey (ALPHA 538), the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the ensemble Contraste: ‘We all have a few notes of Schubert buried deep inside us’ say the artists, who have got together around his music and brought to it an original sound texture, the result of their varied influences – classical, pop, jazz, folk.
They have picked some of the best-known lieder (Ständchen, selections from Winterreise, etc.) and universally loved instrumental pieces, incorporating in them rhythms from other countries and instruments unusual in this repertory: the jazz trumpet of Airelle Besson, the guitar of Kevin Seddiki, the percussion of Jean-Luc Di Fraja join forces with the piano, violin, viola and cello of Contraste – not forgetting the exceptional participation of the soprano Sandrine Piau, who joins Rosemary Standley for several duets. The arrangements are by Johan Farjot.
Works:
•Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
•Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
•Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
•Schubert: Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
•Schubert: Gute Nacht (No. 1 from Winterreise, D911)
•Schubert: Heidenröslein, D257
•Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
•Schubert: Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4
•Schubert: Wasserflut (No. 6 from Winterreise, D911)
Works:
•Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
•Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
•Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
•Schubert: Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
•Schubert: Gute Nacht (No. 1 from Winterreise, D911)
•Schubert: Heidenröslein, D257
•Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
•Schubert: Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4
•Schubert: Wasserflut (No. 6 from Winterreise, D911)