Dark Night Has Vanished

Catriona Morison (mezzo) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Dit meeslepende recital markeert het debuut bij LINN van de Schotse mezzosopraan Catriona Morison, winnares van de hoofdprijs in de BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Prize van 2017 en tevens winnares van de Song Prize. Werken van Brahms, Grieg en Schumann staan naast werken van Josephine Lang, wier uitzonderlijke talent als liedcomponist werd gevoed door Felix Mendelssohn.

Brahms:
 Alte Liebe, Op. 72 No. 1
 Dein blaues Auge, (No. 8 from Acht Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 59)
 Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Op. 105 No. 2
 Mädchenlied, Op. 107 No. 5
 Sapphische Ode, Op. 94 No. 4

Grieg:
 Seks Sange, Op. 48

Lang, J:
 Abschied, Op. 10 No. 6
 Gestern und Heute
 Scheideblick, Op. 10 No. 5

"Though she hails from the era of Mendelssohn, Lang has a less contained, more Schumannesque manner that is used with such unfiltered conviction you would think she invented this harmonic world. Her balance of words and musical expression is effortless; her use of form is distinctively seamless. Expressive mileage that Lang draws from repeated words never feels laboured...All parties concerned – Morison, pianist Malcolm Martineau and the composer – are at their best amid the lyrical flow and emotional depths of ‘Abschied’."
Gramophone Magazine - March 2021

"Morison’s mezzo basks in an almost inextinguishable warmth and radiance...Everywhere her sense of musical line is a wonder (pianist Malcolm Martineau conjuring wonderments of his own), though a more nuanced engagement with the sound and colours of the German words could be desired. Riveting nonetheless."
BBC Music Magazine - April 2021 ****(Performance) / *****(Recording)