Leather Magdalena: Soirée - CD

Soirée captures the atmosphere of informal home music. Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená offers an intimate selection of songs, accompanied by excellent musicians and her friends, including Sir Simon Rattle, for whom it is a recording debut in the role of pianist.
The German Lieder is represented on the CD by Johannes Brahms (Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 and Fünf Ophelia-Lieder, WoO 22) and Richard Strauss (Morning! op. 27 no. 4), French songs by Ernest Chausson (Chanson perpétuelle) and Maurice Ravel (Chansons madécasses) and the avant-garde of the 20th century Stravinsky' s Three Songs to the lyrics of William Shakespeare.
Magdalena could not miss even Czech songs: you will hear a selection of Dvořák' s songs arranged by Duncan Ward and the Rhythm of Magdalena' s beloved Leoš Janáček.

CD Soirée is the second CD released as part of an exclusive collaboration between Magdalena and the recording label PENTATONE, following the release of a Baroque cantata recital album called Il giardino dei sospiri earlier this year.

Playlist

Ernest Chausson
Perpetual Song
Antonin Dvorak (arr. Duncan Ward): Selection of Songs
I. My song resounds with love (II). Wide sleeves / III. My heart is often in pain / IV. The Moweress / V. When my mother taught me / VI. The strings are tuned / VII. Good night
Johannes Brahms, Op. 91
Gestill Sehnsucht / Geistliches Wiegenlied
Igor Stravinsky, Three Songs from William Shakespeare
I. Musick to hearev / II. Full fadom five / III. When Daisies pied
Maurice Ravel, Chansons madecasses
I. Nahandove / II. Aoua / III. It is sweet
Johannes Brahms, Fünf Ophelia Lieder WoO 22
I. How to know ich dein Treulieb / II. His lighthouse white as snow to see / III. On the morning is St. Valentins Day / IV. You load on the spring block / V. And don' t you know more?
Leoš Janáček: Nursery Rhymes
I. The mole creeps / II. Karel do pekla zajel (Karel rode off to hell) / III. Franta Rasul playing bass / IV. d? lám, d? lám kázání (Children, hear my sermon) / V. Ho, ho, cows go (Ho, ho, off the cows go) / VI. The white goat ' s picking up the pears) / VII. Vašek, pašek (Vacek, scallywag) / VIII. Frantik, Frantik (Frantik, Frantik)
Richard Strauss
Morning!