Eric Coates - Songs
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0192
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st February 2019
Contents
Works
Always as I close my eyesAt Daybreak
Bird Songs at Eventide
By the North Sea
Dreams of London
Homeward to you
I heard you singing
I pitch my lonely caravan at night
Little Boy Blue
Old English Songs (4)
Our Little Home
Reuben Ranzo
Rise up and reach the stars
Sea Rapture
Sleepy Lagoon
Song of the Little Folk
Stars and a Crescent Moon
Tell me where is fancy bred
The Fairy Tales of Ireland
The Green Hills o' Somerset
The Mill o' Dreams
The Scent of Lilac
Artists
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)Christopher Glynn (piano)
Works
Always as I close my eyesAt Daybreak
Bird Songs at Eventide
By the North Sea
Dreams of London
Homeward to you
I heard you singing
I pitch my lonely caravan at night
Little Boy Blue
Old English Songs (4)
Our Little Home
Reuben Ranzo
Rise up and reach the stars
Sea Rapture
Sleepy Lagoon
Song of the Little Folk
Stars and a Crescent Moon
Tell me where is fancy bred
The Fairy Tales of Ireland
The Green Hills o' Somerset
The Mill o' Dreams
The Scent of Lilac
Artists
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)Christopher Glynn (piano)
About
Fresh from rave reviews for The Hills of Dreamland (SOMMCD2712), a ravishing collection of Elgar’s orchestral songs, Kathryn Rudge returns with a delectable recital of era-defining songs by the composer of the stirring The Dam Busters March, exuberant Knightsbridge march and the timeless By the Sleepy Lagoon, familiar to radio audiences around the world as the theme to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs since 1942.
The dreamy reverie of that signature song, so evocative of a more innocent age, is matched here by the carefree rustic knowingness of Reuben Ranzo, the Four Old English Songs (a varied quartet of settings of Shakespeare), the affecting melancholia of The Green Hills of Somerset and the exquisite four-part song cycle The Mill o’ Dreams.
Coates belongs to an era of gentler music-making but a no less passionate and emotional one, as Rudge’s ardent singing of Sea Rapture, her beseeching approach to I Pitch My Lonely Caravan and honeyed take on The Fairy Tales of Ireland eloquently testifies to.
Kathryn Rudge has been described as “one of Britain’s brightest young mezzos” (What’s on Stage) with her voice lauded for its “tremendous reserves of power, impeccable intonation, the capacity for a gloriously sustained legato and, most interesting of all, a distinctive vocal quality” (The Times).
Christopher Glynn is fast emerging as one of the most exciting young accompanists of the day. Opera News has described him as “an exemplary partner, by turns impossibly delicate, colourfully nimble and thunderously firm”, while the Birmingham Post praised his partnering in concert of fellow SOMM artist Roderick Williams for its “reassuring authority and empathy”.
Authoritative booklet notes are provided by English music specialist Jeremy Dibble.
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