The Evening Primrose Vodeon

• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674): Five Flowersongs, Op. 47:
• 1 BrittenHerrick: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 1, To Daffodils 01:55
• 2 BrittenHerrick: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 2, The Succession of the Four Sweet Months 02:00
• Benjamin Britten, George Crabbe (1754 - 1832): Five Flowersongs, Op. 47:
• 3 BrittenCrabbe: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 3, Marsh Flowers 02:17
• 4 BrittenCrabbe: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 4, The Evening Primrose 02:29
• Henk Badings (1907 - 1987):, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926):
• 5 BadingsRilke: Finnigan's Wake 05:17
• Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), Rainer Maria Rilke: Six Chansons:
• 6 HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 1, La Biche 01:18
• 7 HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 2, Un Cygne 01:59
• 8 HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 3, Puisque tout passe 00:24
• 9 HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 4, Printemps 01:31
• 10 HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 5, En Hiver 01:07
• 11 HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 6, Berger 01:21
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918), Charles d'Orléans (1394 - 1465): Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans:
• 12 Debussyd'Orléans: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans: No. 1, Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder 02:11
• 13 Debussyd'Orléans: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans: No. 3, Yver vous n'estes qu'un villain 02:18
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Trois Chansons:
• 14 Ravel: Trois Chansons: No. 1, Nicolette 01:51
• 15 Ravel: Trois Chansons: No. 3, Ronde 02:03
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), James Stepens (b. 1951): Reincarnations, Op. 16:
• 16 BarberStepens: Reincarnations, Op. 16: No. 1, Mary Hynes 02:22
• 17 BarberStepens: Reincarnations, Op. 16: No. 2, Anthony O'Daly 02:51
• 18 BarberStepens: Reincarnations, Op. 16: No. 3, The Coolin 03:23
• Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930): Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17:
• 19 FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 1, I Praise the Tender Flower 02:10
• 20 FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 3, My Spirit Sang All Day 01:37
• 21 FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 4, Clear And Gentle Stream 04:11
• 22 FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 7, Wherefore Tonight So Full of Care 02:55
• Total Runtime 49:30

Info for The Evening Primrose

The Evening Primrose transports us to the emotional core of the rich and colourful vocal music from the Late Romantic Era. The Munich vocal group vodeon dispatches the chansons with the utmost vocal skill, freshness, and joy. Gripping and fascinating in equal measure.

vodeon
Clayton Bowman, conductor

vodeon
interprets music as an innovative formation of soloists with an ever-changing lineup. Their joy in finding new expressive possibilities combined with their broad horizons spark collaborations with artists of all genres — from instrumental music to dance to drama. Conductor Clayton Bowman and singers Berthold Schindler and Hana Katsenes make up a core trio. Around this core they bring together groups of artists which correspond precisely to diligently designed concert programs. Despite this remarkable versatility, each project includes vodeon’s unmistakable thumbprint: the highly artful performance of vocal music with the aesthetic of the solo voice. In the space between solo and tutti, individuality and voice blending, con and senza vibrato, the ensemble finds its characteristic sound.

Influenced by the various artistic biographies of the musicians, vodeon’s repertoire has but one criterion: regardless of style, era, or language, it must be music into which the artists can breathe life, and by which the audience can be moved. Their quest for unheard programs has brought vodeon to partner with eminent artists such as the singers Anna-Lena Elbert and Israel Martins, the pianist Amy Brinkman-Davis, the poet Fee Brembeck, the baroque orchestra Concerto München under the direction of Johannes Berger, and the composer Johannes X. Schachtner.

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