Lana Bode, Samantha Crawford - Dream.Risk.Sing: Elevating Women's Voices (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Love After 1950: No. 3, Big Sister Says, 1967
02. Gold into Diamonds: No. 3, Ballad
03. Sycamore Trees: My Mother is a Singer
04. woman.life.song: No. 1b, Breasts!! Song of the Innocent Wild-Child
05. woman.life.song: No. 1c. Edge
06. Crossing Faultlines: No. 1, In the Margins
07. Crossing Faultlines: No. 2, Like a Drum
08. Crossing Faultlines: No. 3, And Now Her Song
09. The Birth Project: No. 2, Pregnant
10. The Birth Project: No. 7, First Miracle
11. The Birth Project: No. 8, Superhero
12. Infant Joy
13. Bright Travellers: No. 4, Milk Fever
14. Bright Travellers: No. 5, Council Offices
15. The Heart of a Woman
16. Cigánské Melodie, Op. 55: No. 4, Když mne stará matka
17. My Daughters

"Conceived by soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode with the aim of telling often unheard stories about womanhood primarily through women’s own words and music, dream.risk.sing brings together songs about adolescence, bodies, love, work and legacy, while a palpable thread running throughout reminds listeners of the constraints on freedom that still exist in women’s lives. Bringing forward this subject matter – far from the staple of traditional song recitals – has involved Crawford and Bode in commissioning new music and reviving other, often unfamiliar repertoire, and the album includes a new song-cycle by Charlotte Bray, new arrangements of two songs from Judith Weir’s groundbreaking cycle woman.life.song, recent works by Helen Grime, Libby Larsen and others, as well as earlier twentieth-century contributions from Rebecca Clarke and Florence Price."

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