A few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey (ALPHA538), the Franco-American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the Ensemble Contraste: ‘We all have a few notes of Schubert buried deep inside us,’ say the artists, who have got together around his music and brought to it an original sound texture, the result of their varied influences – classical, pop, jazz, folk.

They have picked some of the best-known lieder (Ständchen, selections from Winterreise, etc.) and universally loved instrumental pieces, incorporating in them rhythms from other countries and instruments unusual in this repertory: the jazz trumpet of Airelle Besson, the guitar of Kevin Seddiki, the percussion of Jean-Luc Di Fraja join forces with the viola of Arnaud Thorette, the piano, cello and double bass of Ensemble Contraste – not forgetting the exceptional participation of the soprano Sandrine Piau, who joins Rosemary Standley for several duets. The arrangements are by Johan Farjot.

Contents:
1. Ständchen ‘Leise flehen meine Lieder’
2. Gute Nacht
3. Irrlicht
4. Improvistaion on Arpeggione Sonata
5. Heidenröslein
6. Trockne Blumen
7. Impromptu
8. Auf dem Wasser zu singen
9. Nacht und Träume
10. Ave Maria
11. Improvisation on Symphony no.8
12. Der Tod und das Mädchen
13. Wasserflut
14. Moment musical
15. Du bist die Ruh