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Songs of Love - Italian Love Songs by Bellini, Puccini, Tosti, Donizetti et al. / Anna Leese, soprano; Stephen De Pledge, piano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2013-02-26

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Il fervido desiderio, for voice & piano; Dolente immagine di figlia mia, for voice & piano; Vaga luna, che inargenti, song for voice & piano; La farfalletta, song for voice & piano;...
Performers: Buttner, Thorsten [Tenor Vocal]; de Pledge, Stephen; Leese, Anna

Anna Leese and Stephen de Pledge perform Italian Love Songs by Bellini, Puccini, Donizetti and Tosti. These elegant pieces for solo voice, some well known,...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK (11/27/2010-11/29/2010)....continue...

Open Your Eyes / Richard Strauss, Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg / Katherine Broderick, soprano; Malcom Martineau, piano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2012-11-13

Works: Richard Strauss: Songs (8) from "Letzte Blätter" for voice & piano, Op. 10 (TrV 141); Alban Berg: Early Songs (7); Arnold Schoenberg: Brettl-Lieder
Performers: Broderick, Katherine; Martineau, Malcolm

Soprano Katherine Broderick, along with pianist Malcolm Martineau, presents a recital of ripely romantic and lyrical songs and cabaret humor from the turn of the...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK (04/01/2011-04/04/2011)....continue...

Tell Me the Truth About Love songs by Britten, Schumann, Boulanger, Chausson et al. / Amanda Roocroft, soprano; Joseph Middleton, piano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2012-10-30

Works: Benjamin Britten: Tell me the Truth about Love, for voice & piano (Cabaret Songs); Early one morning, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 5); Robert Schumann: Seit ich ihn gesehen, song for voice & p...
Performers: Middleton, Joseph [Piano]; Roocroft, Amanda

Charting the course of a love affair - in song - through the eyes of a young woman who begins by asking the universal question,...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex (08/19/2011-08/26/2011)....continue...

David Bowerman: Fantasies - Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows / Stephen De Pledge, piano; Anna Leese, soprano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2012-05-29

Works: David Bowerman: Fantasy on a Theme of Elgar, for violin & piano; Shakespeare Songs (5), for voice & piano; Quartet for Strings on a Prelude, Chorale and Fugue of César Franck; Carne Beach, for p...
Performers: de Pledge, Stephen; Leese, Anna; Pailthorpe, Emily; Samuel, Laura; Stokes, Anna
Conductors: Chorzelski, Krzysztof;
Ensemble: Gould Piano Trio; Sacconi Quartet; Serenata of London

David Bowerman began writing music at the age of 65, and these compositions are more reflective than futuristic. He draws on music and literature that...continue...

Messiaen: Poémes Pour Mi

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2011-06-28

Works: Olivier Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi; Thème et Variations for Violin and Piano; Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jésus; Le merle noir; Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (6), for piano, I/54
Performers: de Pledge, Stephen; Jeffers, Gweneth-Ann; Pailthorpe, Daniel; Trusler, Matthew
Conductors:
Ensemble: London Conchord Ensemble

Poémes pour Mi, sung by soprano Gwen-Ann Jeffers, opens this recording of some of Messiaen's most important chamber works. Pianist Stephen De Pledge, who studied...continue...
Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex....continue...

Bei Strauss / Gillian Keith, soprano

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2011-05-31

Works: Richard Strauss: Lieder (6), Op. 17; Leises Lied ("In einem stillen Garten"), song for voice & piano, Op. 39/1 (TrV 189/1); Wiegenliedchen ("Bienchen, Bienchen wiegt sich im Sonnenschein"), song for ...
Performers: Keith, Gillian; Lepper, Simon

Recording information: Music Room, Champs Hill (04/29/2009-05/01/2009)....continue...

Gian Carlo Menotti: Trio For Violin Clarinet; Piano Five Songs

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2010-05-25

Works: Gian Carlo Menotti: Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano; Five Songs, for voice & piano; Cantilena e scherzo for harp & string quartet; Canti della lontananza, song cycle for soprano & piano
Performers: Brewer, Christine; Martin, Max [Clarinet]; Milford, Julian; Thorsen, Marianne; Tingay, Gillian; Vignoles, Roger [Piano]

Menotti's instrumental and vocal concert music has not attracted as much attention as his stage works, but his cantatas, concertos, song-cycles and other works all...continue...

A Fantasy Idyll: Music by David Bowerman

1 CD / Champs Hill Records / 2010-04-27

Works: David Bowerman: Fanfare, for 3 trumpets & organ; Improvisation on Little Cornard, for organ; Spiritual Fantasy, for piano trio; Shakespeare Settings (2), for voice & piano; An Equal Music, for voice ...
Performers: de Pledge, Stephen; Earis, Andrew; Fichert, Jakob; Frith, Benjamin [Piano]; Galvydyte, Diana; Helsdon, Claire; Hodges, Katie; Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Leese, Anna; Lott, Felicity [Soprano Vocal]; Nea...

The third CD from new English composer David Bowerman, this CD further explores his love of song and his natural affinity for the organ, as...continue...