Liza Lehmann - Songs of a 'Flapper'

Описание: Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) was an English soprano and composer most well-known for her song cycles and art songs. After studying with the likes of Jenny Lind, she pursued a concert career for an extended period before settling into composing. She was the first president of the Society of Women Musicians as well as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music. Never just a composer, Lehmann wrote the lyrics for this short song cycle herself, basing the cycle around the thoughts and feelings of 'flappers', young Western women of the Roaring Twenties who came to symbolise the decade.

00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - 1. In The Garden
01:30 - 2. The Beautiful World
02:28 - 3. My Sister Nell
03:47 - 4. The Ball
05:44 - 5. Good-night, Little Stars

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Credits:
Bea Derrick (soprano)
Tom Crathorne (piano)
Sebastian Schmidt (sound editing)

Bea is a freelance soprano based in London, but has been active as a singer for many years in London, Sheffield, and Suffolk, in a range of genres. She graduated with a degree in English and Music from the University of Sheffield in 2018, where she won the Julian Payne Recital Prize, awarded to the highest marked recital in the year group. She is a regular singer at St Martin-in-the-Fields, where she was a choral scholar in 2019-20, and St Stephen Walbrook, and deps regularly around London.

Tom Crathorne is a collaborative pianist and composer based in Sheffield, UK. His appointments as a collaborative pianist vary from accompanist and rehearsal pianist to musical director and conductor, and have seen him working in numerous regional theatres and classical venues across the UK. Compositionally, he specialises in situational idiomatic notation, and is researching the creative application of spatial/semantic perceptions within music.

Sebastian is a UK-based studio musician specialising in music production, sound design and audio editing. He studied undergraduate and masters degrees in music in the NOVARS Research Centre at the University of Manchester. He is now working on a variety of solo and collaborative arts projects, with a particular interest in experimental music and sound design within the fields of theatre, film and video games.

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This performance has been recorded in compliance with the UK Government's COVID-19 health & safety guidelines. In accordance with these guidelines, each part was recorded separately and then edited together.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.