One Hundred Years of British Song Vol.1: Holst, Clarke, Gurney, Bridge
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0621
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 16th October 2020
Contents
Works
Day after dayDweller in my deathless dreams
Journey's End, H167
Speak to me, my love!
A Dream
Eight O'Clock
June Twilight
The Seal Man
Down by the Salley Gardens
Lights Out
Sleep
Snow
A Vigil of Pentecost
Songs (12), op.48 'Humbert Wolfe Songs'
Artists
James Gilchrist (tenor)Nathan Williamson (piano)
Works
Day after dayDweller in my deathless dreams
Journey's End, H167
Speak to me, my love!
A Dream
Eight O'Clock
June Twilight
The Seal Man
Down by the Salley Gardens
Lights Out
Sleep
Snow
A Vigil of Pentecost
Songs (12), op.48 'Humbert Wolfe Songs'
Artists
James Gilchrist (tenor)Nathan Williamson (piano)
About
Compiled to reflect the rich variety of British song, Volume 1 throws a spotlight on composers who made a considerable contribution to the song repertoire but whose success in other genres often led to their songs being overlooked.
All four featured composers – Gustav Holst, Rebecca Clarke, Ivor Gurney and Frank Bridge – were born in the late 1800s and lived through the horrors of the First World War and the extraordinary social, cultural and political upheaval that followed.
Two songs by Holst – the liturgically-accented A Vigil of Pentecost and folk-infused The Ballad of Hunting Knowe – receive first recordings.
Songs from Holst’s Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs are also heard alongside Clarke’s macabre setting of AE Housman’s Eight O’Clock and John Masefield’s The Seal Man, which Williamson describes in his informative booklet notes as “one of the most thrilling English songs in the repertoire”.
Also featured are Ivor Gurney’s powerful and poignant Snow and Sleep and his affecting treatment of WB Yeats’s Down by the Salley Gardens together with Four Songs by Frank Bridge including three romantically heightened settings of Rabindranath Tagore and the deeply moving, lullaby-like Journey’s End to a text by Humbert Wolfe.
James Gilchrist’s previous SOMM releases include Volumes 1 and 2 of Parry’s English Lyrics (SOMMCD257 and 270) and Penelope Thwaites’s From Five Continents (SOMMCD0612), to which, theclassicalreview said, “Gilchrist brings authority throughout”.
Nathan Williamson’s SOMM association includes Great American Sonatas (SOMMCD0163), hailed by Gramophone as “a release of distinction”, and Colour and Light (SOMMCD0196), a 2019 Recording of the Year for International Piano: “No praise could be high enough for Williamson’s performances, which unearth buried musical treasure beyond price”.
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