Deux-Elles

NEW RELEASE! Gramphone Magazine Editor's Choice, October 2023, " A delight of a disc " You Did Not Want For Joy is Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Wadsworth 's third album together. It is a song recital programme, bookended by old and new settings of the same texts, interspersed with themes of nature, love, and the human condition. It features folk songs and broadside ballads, as well as songs by Dowland, Campion, Purcell and Britten. There is also a new commission by Nico Muhly - the first piece of new music to be written for Sampson and Wadsworth as a duo - a setting of the text from Hildegard von Bingen's O viridissima virga. Equally at home on the concert and opera stages, soprano Carolyn Sampson has enjoyed notable successes in the UK as well as throughout Europe and the US. In 23/24 Carolyn will make her debut at Berlin Staatsoper as well as releasing what will be her 100th recording as a featured solo artist. Working in the UK and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, lutenist Matthew Wadsworth has appeared at most major concert halls and festivals, and can often be heard on radio, both in live performance and recordings. His many CD recordings for Channel Classics, Linn Records, Deux-Elles and Wigmore Live have all received international critical acclaim, and have been featured as Gramophone Editor's Choice on three occasions. CAROLYN SAMPSON soprano MATTHEW WADSWORTH lute & theorbo DXL1192 • Released 2023

NEW RELEASE! •• "FATHER & SON" WAS OUR FEATURED ALBUM FOR JUNE 2024 •• Click here to read our blog about this release! Cellist George Ross studied at Royal College of Music in London where he encountered the baroque cello, receiving lessons from Richard Tunnicliffe, then pursued a Masters in historical cello at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Jaap ter Linden. In 2013, he founded the Consone Quartet which became the first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New Generation Artists. Most recently, George has enjoyed returning to the English Haydn Festival as a soloist to perform concertos by C. P. E. Bach and Schumann. He has worked with such groups as the English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, and the Hanover Band. Alastair Ross was a chorister at Christ Church, and later an organ scholar at New College, Oxford. As a freelance organist and harpsichordist for fifty years, Alastair has played for The Sixteen and the Academy of Ancient Music, appearing on all their award-winning recordings for most of that time. For twenty years, with his wife Gilly, he directed Concerto delle Donne , a three-soprano group specialising in music from 17 th – and 18 th -century Italy and France. They made two recordings for Signum Records, the first one of music by Carissimi, and a visit to a historic organ outside Paris resulting in a further CD of Charpentier’s church music. Geminiani Sonata No. 4 in B-Flat Major Geminiani Sonata No. 5 in F Major Scarlatti Folia, from Toccata VII Geminiani Sonata No. 2 in D Minor Geminiani Sonata No. 1 in A Major Duphly Chaconne in F Major Geminiani Sonata No. 6 in A Minor Geminiani Sonata No. 3 in C Major GEORGE ROSS cello ALASTAIR ROSS harpsichord DXL1199 • Released 2024

Inspired by the ambience of the evening concerts he gave at various festivals, Matthew Wadsworth ’s album Late Night Lute is a relaxing programme of music for lute and theorbo. Matthew Wadsworth has earned a reputation as one of the world’s finest lutenists. Working in the UK, Europe and North America as a soloist and chambermusician, he has appeared at most major concert halls and festivals, and can often be heard on radio, both in live performance and recordings. Born in 1974, Matthew studied lute at London’s Royal Academy of Music with Nigel North, after which he spent a year at the Royal Conservatory ofMusic in The Hague. Features the newly commissioned work of ‘The Miller’s Tale’, composed by Stephen Goss for Matthew Wadsworth, which received its world premiere on 6 March 2017 at London’s Wigmore Hall. Also Includes works by Philip Rosseter , John Downland , Robert Johnson , Alessandro Piccinini , and Johammees Kapsberger . MATTHEW WADSWORTH lute & theorbo DXL1175 • Released 2017