Lines Written During a Sleepless Night: The Russian Connection
Soprano Louise Alder makes her debut recording for Chandos, accompanied by Joseph Middleton. Subtitled 'The Russia Connection', the album honours Alder's family history through a journey from Russia via Scandinavia to England – the journey her great-grandparents took in 1916 in flight from the Russian Revolution. Beginning with Rachmaninoff's Six Songs Op. 38 – written in 1916 – the cycle takes in Sibelius, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Medtner, before concluding with Britten.
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