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.

Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)
Schubert: Heidenröslein, D257
Schubert: Impromptu in G flat major, D899 No. 3
Schubert: Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 3 in F minor
Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
Schubert: Ständchen 'Leise flehen meine Lieder', D957 No. 4
Schubert: Winterreise D911