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Carolyn Sampson (photo Marco Borggreve)

But I like to sing ...

Carolyn Sampson + Joseph Middleton
Fri 8 Mar 2024 20:15 - 21:55
Fri 8 Mar 2024
20:15 - 21:55
  • Fri 8 Mar 2024
    20:15 - 21:55
    Interval 21:00
    Grote Zaal
    Past event

Program

19.30 uur / Grote Zaal / Support  / Wessel Wirken (baritone) and Mark van Nispen (piano)
Ludwig van Beethoven Adelaide 
Franz Schubert Fischerweise D 881
Franz Schubert Nachtstück D 672
Healey Willan An Old Derry Air
Gerald Finzi It was a Lover and his Lass 

20:15 / Grote Zaal / Main programme
Hubert Parry My heart is like a singing bird 
Leonard Bernstein I Hate Music! 
Franz Schubert An die Musik 
Hugo Wolf An eine Äolsharfe
Johannes Brahms An ein Veilchen 
Joseph Marx Nocturne 
César Franck Nocturne 
Rita Strohl Bilitis, La nuit en Berceuse from 12 chants de Bilitis
Francis Poulenc Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon 
Cheryl Frances-Hoad Something More Than Mortal 
Émile Paladilhe Psyché 
Henri Duparc L'invitation au voyage 
Kaija Saariaho Parfum de l'instant from 4 Instants 
Deborah Pritchard Everyone Sang 
Samuel Barber A slumber song of the Madonna 
Ivor Gurney Sleep 
Errollyn Wallen Peace on Earth 

Credits

Carolyn Sampson soprano
Joseph Middleton piano

A voice to fall in love with

Carolyn Sampson is ‘the best British early music soprano by quite some distance’ according to Gramophone. But she is also one of the most in-demand lieder singers in the world, together with pianist Joseph Middleton, with whom she enjoys a close-knit collaboration. It is therefore high time for a concert in the Great Singers series by Sampson, whose voice bears some resemblance to her idol Elly Ameling. Effortlessly, this ‘voice to fall in love with’ (NRC) travels through three hundred years of song history.

Carolyn Sampson studied violin and piano and used to think that becoming a singer would always be a dream. Until the choirmaster of the local choir encouraged her to audition for The Sixteen. Before long, Sampson rose to prominence as one of the leading voices of early music. Tonight’s colourful recital is proof that Sampson is also more than capable of handling the song repertoire of the 19th and 20th century.


Programme booklet (Dutch)

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Carolyn Sampson + Joseph Middleton
Carolyn Sampson + Joseph Middleton
Joseph Middleton
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Carolyn Sampson + Joseph Middleton (photo Robert Piwko)
Carolyn Sampson + Joseph Middleton (photo Robert Piwko)