Constantly in search of eclectic and meaningful programmes, the soprano Anna Prohaska here celebrates ‘life in death’. An ambitious programme, conceived with Robin Peter Müller and his ensemble La Folia, which takes us on a journey across the centuries and through many different countries, with French chansons of the Middle Ages (including one by Guillaume de Machaut), seventeenth-century Italian pieces by Luigi Rossi, Francesco Cavalli and Barbara Strozzi, German composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Dietrich Buxtehude, Christoph Graupner, Franz Tunder) and the English luminaries Henry Purcell... plus John Lennon and Paul McCartney. A musical and spiritual quest that even takes in a detour to North America with a universally known song by Leonard Cohen.
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Reviews
**** Excellent Album
Philippe Venturini – Classica magazine (France) – July/August 2022
“… an intriguing recital.”
Alexandra Coghlan – Gramophone magazine – June 2022
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Rebecca Franks – BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes) – June 2022
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Corina Kolbe – Rondo magazine (Germany) – February 2022
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