Victorious Love

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Victorious Love
Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Lawrence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet) Elizabeth Kenny (archlute & thearbo)

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Release Date: Wednesday 1 August 2007

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One of the most exciting young sopranos to emerge in recent years, Carolyn Sampson was born in Bedford, studied music at the University of Birmingham and lives in London. She made her opera début with English National Opera as Amor in The Coronation of Poppea, returning to the company for Pamina (The Magic Flute) and a highly-acclaimed interpretation of Handel's Semele.

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One of the most exciting young sopranos to emerge in recent years, Carolyn Sampson was born in Bedford, studied music at the University of Birmingham and lives in London. She made her opera début with English National Opera as Amor in The Coronation of Poppea, returning to the company for Pamina (The Magic Flute) and a highly-acclaimed interpretation of Handel's Semele. Her French opera début was at the Opéra de Paris as First Niece in Peter Grimes and she has taken the role of Asteria (Tamerlano) in Lille, Caen and Bordeaux. In concert, she has sung Euridice and La Musica (L'Orfeo), Morgana (Alcina) and Antonia (Les Contes d'Hoffmann).

Carolyn Sampson has worked with conductors such as Paul McCreesh, Harry Christophers, Christophe Coin, Emmanuelle Haïm, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Nicholas Kraemer, Gustav Leonhardt, Trevor Pinnock and Masaaki Suzuki. As well as working with many of the foremost early music groups, she has enjoyed collaborations with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the RIAS Kammerchor in repertoire including Brahms, Britten, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Stravinsky.

Tracks:

1. Sweeter than roses, Z.585 No.1 3'21
2. The fatal hour, Z.421 3'40
3. When first Amintas sued for a kiss, Z.430 2'01
4. The Plaint, Z.629 No.40 7'23
5. They tell us that you mighty powers above, Z.630 No.19 3'18
7. From silent shades, Z.370 4'31
8. Music for a while,Z.583 No.2 3'56
9. Now the night is chas'd away, Z.629 No.28 1'33
10. If music be the food of love, Z.379 3'36
11. Thrice happy lovers (An Epithalamium), Z.629 No.39 2'56
12. The bashful Thames, Z.333 No.4 2'42
13. I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain, Z.630 No.17 1'39
14. Oh! fair Cedaria, Z.402 3'53
15. Fairest isle, Z.628 No.38 3'20
16. O solitude, Z.406 5'18
17. If love's a sweet passion, Z.629 No.17 3'20
18. The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation, Z.196 7'14
19. An Evening Hymn, Z.193 4'33
20. Man is for the woman made, Z.605 No.3 1'24