Utwory na płycie:

• Muller-Hermann - Der letzte Abend Op.2 No.4 - Der letzte Abend Op.2 No.4
• Schweikert - Die Entschlafenen - Die Entschlafenen

Johanna Müller-Hermann:
Wie eine Vollmondnacht, Op. 20 No. 4
Der letzte Abend, Op. 2 No. 4
Die stille Stadt, Op. 4 No. 1
Herbst, Op. 20 No. 2
In Memoriam, Op. 28 No. 5
Widmung, Op. 20 No. 1

Richard Strauss:
Befreit, Op. 39, TrV 189, No. 4
Allerseelen, Op. 10, TrV 141, No. 8
Auf ein Kind, Op. 47, TrV 200, No. 1
Rückleben, Op. 47, TrV 200, No. 3
Morgen!, Op. 27, TrV 170, No. 4

Margarete Schweikert:
Wolke I
Totenhausen
Zusammen sterben
Unser Haus
Die Entschlafenen
Einem Vorangegangenen

Gustav Mahler:
Kindertotenlieder

The mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately trained at Chetham’s School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the International Opera School of the Royal College of Music. Having won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and Royal Overseas League Award in the same year, she attended the prestigious Academy of the Verbier Festival. She writes of this project: ‘It has been my great pleasure to record with Joseph once again. We have long shared a mutual passion for earlytwentieth- century romantic Lieder and talked of making a disc including songs by Mahler and Strauss.

The opportunity to discover and research lesser-known composers from their era has been thrilling and fascinating. As the world endured the pandemic, we all experienced fear and danger and loss in a way that most of our generation never did before, on such a global scale. Joseph and I felt drawn to reflect on grief, mortality, and bereavement.’ The two lesser-known composers featured in the recording are Johanna Müller- Hermann (who studied with several of the most prominent teachers in Vienna – Josef Labor, Guido Adler, Alexander Zemlinsky, Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Franz Schmidt) and Margarete Schweikert, whose upbringing and life in Karlsruhe and studies with Joseph Haas in Stuttgart could hardly provide a greater contrast – clearly audible in their music.

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Recording: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk; 25 – 28 February 2022. Piano: Steinway Model D Concert Grand Piano (serial no. 592 087).