Fleurs

香り高きサンプソンの美声
バラ、花、植物にまつわる美しき歌曲集!

SACDハイブリッド盤。バッハ・コレギウム・ジャパンのソリストとしてもおなじみの「名花」サンプソンが、バラ、花、植物にまつわる美しき歌曲を収録しました。著名な作曲家の多くはこれらの作品を残しておりますが、当ディスクでは“バラ”にまつわる作品を筆頭に“植物”にまつわる作品、そして、フランス人作曲家による“花”にまつわる作品で構成しました。美しい世界をサンプソンが歌い上げます。

キャロリン・サンプソンは「完璧なコロラトゥーラ技術と豊かにのびる輝かしい声」と評され、世界の聴衆を魅了し続けています。バロック・古典派の歌曲からオペラまで幅広いレパートリーを持っており、特にバッハ・コレギウム・ジャパンの結婚カンタータ&コーヒーカンタータ集はサンプソンの代表盤のひとつで、澄み切ったその歌唱は官能的で、聴くものを魅了してやまないと評価されています。サンプソンの美声をご堪能ください。
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Nearly everyone who has listened to Baroque vocal music in the 21st century knows the name and voice of British soprano Carolyn Sampson, so many will be surprised to learn that this is her debut solo recital album. Replicating a concert program Sampson has often performed with pianist Joseph Middleton, it is here recorded in sublimely accurate SACD sound at Suffolk's Potton Hall. Song aficionados may enjoy trying to deduce the structure of the program from the plain track listing on the CD's back cover: clearly the theme is flowers, but how are the 24 tracks subdivided after the initial group that's all about roses? After this is a group of Richard Strauss songs titled "Strauss's Flowermaidens," and then a highly original grouping of Schumann and Schubert songs on the theme "When blooms speak." Finally there's "Un bouquet francaise," a diverse collection of French songs from the 19th and early 20th centuries. As it happens, Sampson is as effective in this Romantic and early modern repertory as she is in Handel and Bach. She inhabits all three languages effectively, and the program hangs together very well: most of the material is on the sadder side and doesn't go much beyond medium tempo (there is no Heidenroslein or anything like it). The music is affecting, the singer confident, the accompanist (who had a big hand in devising the program) sensitive, and the engineering superb. A highly recommended recital.