Nightingale and the Rose

Chen Reiss (soprano) & Charles Spencer (piano)

Chen Reiss’s debut album 'Liaisons' was internationally acclaimed for both the repertoire selection and the sheer brilliance of the musicianship displayed by Reiss.

Gramophone magazine called her performances of arias by Haydn, Mozart, Salieri and Cimarosa "standard-setting" and BBC Music magazine called it "top-drawer".

For her second ONYX CD Chen Reiss and pianist Charles Spencer have assembled a wonderful collection of songs on the subject of 'The Nightingale and the Rose' – songs that convey the magic of being in love, the heartbreak of love lost, the memories, the fun, the fantasies all associated with that strange, mysterious, dangerous and all-powerful condition – love.

In repertoire that ranges from Purcell to Krenek, Hahn to Meyerbeer and Rimsky-Korsakov, and ends in Berkeley Square in London, this is a programme tailor-made for Chen Reiss’s remarkable voice and it will seduce you.

Bellini:
 Vanne, o rosa fortunata
 
Berg:
 Die Nachtigall
 
Brahms:
 An die Nachtigall, Op. 46 No. 4 (Text: L.C.H. Hölty)
 
Fauré:
 Les roses d'Ispahan Op. 39 No. 4
 
Franck, C:
 Roses et papillons
 Le mariage des roses
 
Grieg:
 Seks Sange, Op. 48 No. 4 'Die verschwiegene Nachtigall'
 Zur Rosenzeit (No. 5 from Seks Sange, Op. 48)
 
Guastavino:
 La rosa y el sauce
 
Hahn, R:
 Le rossignol des lilas
 
Krenek:
 Die Nachtigall
 
Mahler:
 Ablösung im Sommer (Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit)
 
Meyerbeer:
 Die Rosenblätter
 
Purcell:
 Sweeter than Roses (from Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country, Z585)
 
Rimsky Korsakov:
 The Nightingale and the Rose
 
Saint-Saëns:
 Le Rossignol (de Banville)
 
Schubert:
 Heidenröslein, D257
 
Schumann:
 Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne (No. 3 from Dichterliebe, Op. 48)
 Meine Rose, Op. 90 No. 2
 
Sherwin, M:
 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
 
Strauss, R:
 Rote Rosen, AV76
 Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1
 
Viardot-Garcia:
 Les deux roses
 
Weber:
 Das Röschen ('Ich sah ein Röschen am Wege steh’n'), J. 67 (Op. 15 No. 5)
 
Zeira:
 Shnei Shoshanim (Two roses)