Visions of Childhood, Four Last Songs. ESO/April Fredrick (Nimbus)

Description

Prelude – Mahler Symphony No.4 (Opening)
Wagner (arr. Woods)  Siegfried Idyll
Humperdinck (arr. Woods)  Der Kleine Sandmann/Abendsegen (The Little Sandman/Evening Prayers) from Hänsel und Gretel
Schubert (arr Woods)  Die Forelle (The Trout), Lied and Variations for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
Mahler (arr. Woods)  Das Irdische Leben (The Earthly Life)
Schubert (arr. Woods)  Der Tod und das Mädchen (Death and the Maiden), Variations and Lied for Chamber Ensemble
Mahler (arr. Stein)  Das Himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life) from Symphony No.4

Strauss  arr. Ledger Four Last Songs

ARTISTS

English Symphony Orchestra
April Fredrick, Soprano (ESO Affiliate Artist)
Kenneth Woods, Conductor

“an astonishingly good CD with stunning orchestral arrangements by ESO’s principal conductor, Kenneth Woods” ArtsMuse, London

“…In Das himmlische Leben, soprano April Fredrick so resourcefully communicative, the tiny ESO remarkably sonorous under Kenneth Woods’s quietly urbane conducting.” Chris Morley, Birmingham Post