Sing My Soul Lia Pale

• 1 Piangerò la sorte mia 03:13
• 2 O Ruddier Than the Cherry 02:49
• 3 The Poor Shepherd 02:46
• 4 Where'er You Walk 03:42
• 5 O Numi Eterni 03:08
• 6 The Melancholy Nymph 02:38
• 7 Quand on suit l'amoureuse loix 02:48
• 8 Dear Adonis Beauty's Treasure 03:35
• 9 Ombra Mai Fù 03:19
• 10 The Forsaken Maid's Complaint 02:43
• 11 Eternal Source of Light Divine 03:21
• 12 Air en langue allemande 02:00
• 13 Sing My Soul, God to Honour 03:03
• 14 Sans y penser 03:42
• 15 Lascia ch'io pianga 03:32
• 16 The Dream 02:14
• 17 Menuett in G Minor 01:47
• Total Runtime 50:20

Info for Sing My Soul

Arias & songs by G.F. Händel arranged by Mathias Rüegg

The Händel Festival in Halle, Germany commissioned us last year with a program with arrangements of Georg Friedrich Händel's arias and songs. This premiere should have taken place in Halle this June - due to the current situation of the Covid - 19 pandemic, this, as well as others concerts including one at the Porgy & Bess in Vienna, have unfortunately been canceled or postponed. But we were lucky and thanks to the support of the „Austrian Musikfonds“ and Pro Helvetia we were able to go into the studio and record „our“ Händel instead. mathias rüegg had already completed the arrangements of our selected Händel arias and songs in December last year, and so we were able to rehearse intensively in May and June. Our house concert took place in a small group on June 13th - ten days before we went into the studio In five days we recorded twenty-one arias and songs, of which seventeen made it onto the album. „Sing My Soul“ will be released on October 14th 2020 on Lotus Records and on the same day our premiere and release concert of „Sing My Soul“ will take place at Muth - concert hall of the „Wiener Sängerknaben“ in Vienna.

I thought about writing something for this album for a long time and for the simple reason that one year ago I never would have thought that I would have recorded this album filled with Händel’s music, I decided to share how it all came to be. Last summer, after having finished our Kunstlied-Trilogy in the spring of 2019, mathias and I decided to stop our collaboration. As it seemed to us it was time to let this chapter go. Then out of the blue the Händel-Festival in Halle contacted me, asking if we would be interested in creating a Händel programme for June 2020. At first I wasn’t sure – as decisions pointing towards a change had already been made – but on the other hand, I simply couldn’t let this chance to dive into the world of baroque music pass me by. So I sat down with mathias to tell him that I wanted to accept the Händel offer, but at the same time, undertaking this change of epoch, to also change the line-up of what had been our band for the Kunstlied adaptions over the past 7 years. He hesitated but agreed to stay on board as arranger for this programme and keep working together for our Händel in a different way. He started arranging almost immediately for Tobias Faulhammer on guitar, Gregor Aufmesser on bass, Dominik Fuss on trumpet and flugelhorn and me on vocals and flutes. An intimate line up very much in the sense of baroque music. We were in the middle of working and getting to know the repertoire and mathias’ beautiful arrangements during our first rehearsals, when in March 2020 the lockdown due to the Covid19-Pandemic changed the whole world. The premiere in Halle was canceled as were all the concerts planned for our Händel programme. I spent this quiet time taking walks with my loved one, cooking a lot, recording and practicing in my kitchen, singing out of my window and submitting many, many applications for funding and financial support. We were lucky – and Pro Helvetia in Switzerland and the Austrian Musikfonds offered financial help. Thanks to the Austrian Musikfonds that funded us once 8 years ago for my first album gone too far in 2012, we were able go back into the studio to make this album. In five days in June 2020 we recorded 22 arias & songs of which 17 made it onto the album. Now I’m sitting here, after playing live again for the first time since the lockdown in my hometown in Wels on an open air stage, writing these liner notes for our Händel album Sing My Soul.

These times reminded me so clearly that you can never know where the road will lead you or simply what’s going to happen. And it dawned on me that even though we’re surrounded by all these uncertainties, music in one way or another remains a constant and – like a good friend – sticks around, no matter what. If you’re listening to your favorite songs or hearing someone practice from afar or birds singing outside your window every morning. Music remains. To me this is a wonderful reason to stay hopeful and keep on singing.

Lia Pale, vocals, flutes, percussion
Dominik Fuss, trumpet, flugelhorn
Tobias Faulhammer, guitar
Gregor Aufmesser, bass

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