latest recording – released 28 july
‘You Did Not Want For Joy’ is Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth’s third album together, featuring folk songs and ballads, as well as songs by Dowland, Campion, Purcell and Britten, plus a new commission by Nico Muhly – a setting of the text from Hildegard von Bingen’s ‘O viridissima virga’.
The album is out on 28 July. Physical copies available to pre-order now via Presto Music.
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Clara Schumann Liebeszauber Op. 13 No. 3 performed at Wigmore Hall, London 2021
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Schumann’s song cycle seems to have little to say about the realities of a woman’s life, but its emotional depths and the music’s sheer beauty still touch us.
Read Carolyn’s Guardian article explaining how her new recording gives its passive heroine a little more life.
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BBC Music Magazine has awarded the Signum release of Purcell’s King Arthur directed by Paul McCreesh, Recording of the Year 2020.
The recording features Carolyn alongside Anna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Rowan Pierce, Jeremy Budd, James Way, Roderick Williams, and Ashley Riches, accompanied by the Gabrieli Players.
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