Out now: Harriet Burns’ album

January 30, 2024

Harriet Burns

Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale have announced that their Schubert disc, Love’s Lasting Power, was released on Friday 26 January.

From Delphian:

Love – from many-splendoured and joyous to tragic and rejected, homo- and heterosexual, light-hearted and broken-hearted, heavenly and earthly, innocent and anything but: in their first joint recording, long-term performing partners Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale make a deeply personal choice of Schubert’s lieder, exploring the theme of love, but also the friendships and relationships between poets and the composer out of which he crafted songs of astonishing empathy.

Former Winners of the Contemporary Song Prize in the International Vocal Competition at ’s-Hertogenbosch, Ian and Harriet bring an outstanding empathy of their own to songs in which we hear, in Ian’s words, ‘young artists being creative together and exploring things’.

The first reviews are in for Love’s Lasting Power.

Writing in Gramophone, Tim Ashley, said that “There’s little doubt… of the strength of this partnership or the excellence of much of their music-making. A very fine disc indeed.”

Meanwhile Keith Bramich from Classical Music Daily was impressed writing that “Harriet Burns has a strong yet subtle, clear, expressive, operatic-sounding voice, and Ian Tindale’s accompaniment is very sympathetic to the twists and turns of Schubert’s narrative”.

Harriet Burns is the recipient of numerous awards including 2nd prize at the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition, the Compulsory Song Prize and Recital Prize at the 2019 International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1st prize at the 2019 Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, winner of the 2018 Oxford Lieder Young Artists Platform, the 2017 Paul Hamburger Prize for Lieder and the 2017 Franz-Schubert-Institut Competition.