Charlotte de Rothschild & Adrian Farmer: Romance - Popular Tunes & Encores
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.NI6381

By Adrian Farmer and Charlotte de Rothschild. By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, Franz Schubert, Fumihiko Fu, Georg Frederick Handel, George Gershwin, Henry Rowley Bishop, Johannes Brahms, John Jacob Niles, Mathilde de Rothschild, Reynaldo Hahn, Traditional, and Yoko Kanno. Vocal. Vocal. CD. Nimbus Records #NI6381. Published by Nimbus Records (NX.NI6381).

This Romance album contains a selection of popular tunes and encores that I am often asked to perform in my concerts. I have been incredibly lucky to perform all over the world, hence the inclusion of popular songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. My accompanist on this record is my soul-mate - the sensitive and excellent pianist Adrian Farmer - with whom I have shared many happy hours of music-making all over the world, including those we have experienced in the recording studio together. Some composers - Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Hahn - have particular connections to my family, as of course does my ancestor Mathilde de Rothschild. Other songs have been with me all my life, I learnt Brahms's Vergebliches Standchen long ago while a student in Salzburg. The remainder, particularly Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga, Schubert's Ave Maria and JJ Niles's I wonder as I wander are included simply because of their immediate and timeless ability to touch the heart of a listener. (Charlotte de Rothschild).