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The duo's second album on Solo Musica celebrates the song repertoire of women composers from Romanticism to Contemporary Music with 24 songs by 24 women composers. The Swiss soprano Franziska HEINZEN and British-Polish-German pianist Benjamin MEAD set out to research the work of women composers for Clara SCHUMANN's bicentenary in 2019 - and discovered a valuable treasure of relatively unknown music. Beginning with a life journey through refreshing spring feelings, the album goes on to describe painful hours of loneliness and uncertainty as well as anxious premonitions of death and dark fears. Five examples of self-confident female characters, whose experiences are concluded with wiser, reflections on life, as seen retrospectively. Album Tracks 1. June Twilight 2. Heure Exquise 3. Laue Sommernacht 4. Ah, Love, But a Day 5. Am Strande 6. Mélodies (10), for voice & piano~Le Regard Éternel 7. Hilf Mir! 8. Mélodies (4) for voice & piano~Le Bonheur S'Effeuille et Passe 9. Insel der Vergessenheit 10. Dying Is Fine) But Death 11. Warum Sind Denn Die Rosen So Blass 12. Night Dances~Sleep, Mourner, Sleep! 13. Ballades (4) de Paul Fort~Le Diable Dans la Nuit 14. Yellow Leaves~Farewell 15. Alma Phantasien~Nur der Seinen Leben 16. Ophelia's Song 17. Loreley 18. Poèmes (5) for voice & piano~Le Sommeil de Leïlah 19. Song of a Nightclub Proprietress 20. Ewige Liebe 21. Écouter et ne Rien Entendre 22. Ob Ich Manchmal Dein Gedenke 23. Ma Première Lettre 24. Remembrance
