The Evening Primrose Vodeon

• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674): Five Flowersongs, Op. 47:
• 1BrittenHerrick: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 1, To Daffodils01:55
• 2BrittenHerrick: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 2, The Succession of the Four Sweet Months02:00
• Benjamin Britten, George Crabbe (1754 - 1832): Five Flowersongs, Op. 47:
• 3BrittenCrabbe: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 3, Marsh Flowers02:17
• 4BrittenCrabbe: Five Flowersongs, Op. 47: No. 4, The Evening Primrose02:29
• Henk Badings (1907 - 1987):, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926):
• 5BadingsRilke: Finnigan's Wake05:17
• Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), Rainer Maria Rilke: Six Chansons:
• 6HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 1, La Biche01:18
• 7HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 2, Un Cygne01:59
• 8HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 3, Puisque tout passe00:24
• 9HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 4, Printemps01:31
• 10HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 5, En Hiver01:07
• 11HindemithRilke: Six Chansons: No. 6, Berger01:21
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918), Charles d'Orléans (1394 - 1465): Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans:
• 12Debussyd'Orléans: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans: No. 1, Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder02:11
• 13Debussyd'Orléans: Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans: No. 3, Yver vous n'estes qu'un villain02:18
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Trois Chansons:
• 14Ravel: Trois Chansons: No. 1, Nicolette01:51
• 15Ravel: Trois Chansons: No. 3, Ronde02:03
• Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), James Stepens (b. 1951): Reincarnations, Op. 16:
• 16BarberStepens: Reincarnations, Op. 16: No. 1, Mary Hynes02:22
• 17BarberStepens: Reincarnations, Op. 16: No. 2, Anthony O'Daly02:51
• 18BarberStepens: Reincarnations, Op. 16: No. 3, The Coolin03:23
• Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956), Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930): Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17:
• 19FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 1, I Praise the Tender Flower02:10
• 20FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 3, My Spirit Sang All Day01:37
• 21FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 4, Clear And Gentle Stream04:11
• 22FinziBridges: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges, Op. 17: No. 7, Wherefore Tonight So Full of Care02:55
• Total Runtime49:30

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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