This Other Eden: A Landscape of English Poetry & Song
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Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD094
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Contents
Works
Ma Bonny LadDover Beach, op.3
The peace of wild things
Holiday Diary, op.5
In Hilly-Wood (poem)
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Fields are Full
The Darkling Thrush (poem)
A Green Cornfield
The Estuary
Lady Macbeth: Scena of her 3 main speeches
Into my heart an air that kills (poem)
O stay at home my lad and plough (poem)
King David
Earth's call
Spring will not wait
The Children
England (poem)
Sea Fever (poem)
Pastoral Songs (3), op.22
Richard II
Adlestrop (poem)
The Swimmers (poem)
Along the Field
My Own Country
Artists
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
Navarra Quartet
Kevin Whately
Madelaine Newton
Works
Ma Bonny LadDover Beach, op.3
The peace of wild things
Holiday Diary, op.5
In Hilly-Wood (poem)
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Fields are Full
The Darkling Thrush (poem)
A Green Cornfield
The Estuary
Lady Macbeth: Scena of her 3 main speeches
Into my heart an air that kills (poem)
O stay at home my lad and plough (poem)
King David
Earth's call
Spring will not wait
The Children
England (poem)
Sea Fever (poem)
Pastoral Songs (3), op.22
Richard II
Adlestrop (poem)
The Swimmers (poem)
Along the Field
My Own Country
Artists
Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
Navarra Quartet
Kevin Whately
Madelaine Newton
About
The pain of longing for home, of true not sentimental nostalgia, deep seated in the art of the British Isles, permeates this album's exquisite programme of poetry and song, from Shakespeare's Scepter'd Isle, the 'blue remembered hills' of Housman's Shropshire or Hardy's Wessex, to the idyllic Ireland of Joseph Campbell's 'I wish and I wish'.
Features beautiful texts by poets including Dante Gabriel Rosetti, his sister Christina Rosetti, AE Housman and John Masefield.
The stoicism the British are known for flickers in so many of the songs on this album, hope for peace and hope for eternal values of beauty and truth. It stands proud in 'The fields are full', one of many fine songs written by Ivor Gurney in the fruitful post-war years following his initial recovery from shellshock, and there too in John Ireland's 'Earth's Call'.
Kitty Whately, a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist for the 2013-15 seasons, was the winner of both the Kathleen Ferrier Award, and the 59th Royal Over-Seas League Award for Singers in 2011.
Pianist Joseph Middleton was described in the BBC Music Magazine as 'one of the brightest stars in the world of song and Lieder'; he has also been labelled as 'the cream of the new generation' by The Times.
Featuring Kitty's actor parents, Kevin Whately (lead roles in Auf Wiedersehen Pet, Inspector Morse, and title role in Lewis) and Madelaine Newton (theatre and TV actress including leading roles in the hugely successful series When The Boat Comes In, The Spoils of War and Auf Weidersehen Pet).
Award-winning Navarra Quartet feature both individually and as a quartet in Samuel Barber's beautiful Dover Beach.
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