Britten - Complete Folk Songs for Voice and Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96009
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th February 2021
Contents
Works
Dink's SongFolksong arrangements Vol.1 (7) 'British Isles'
Folksong arrangements Vol.2 'France'
Folksong arrangements Vol.3 'British Isles'
Folksong arrangements Vol.4 'Moore's Irish Melodies'
Folksong arrangements Vol.5 'British Isles'
Greensleeves: Folksong arrangment for voice and piano
I wonder as I wander
Pray Goody
Soldier, won't you marry me?
The Crocodile (traditional)
The Holly and the Ivy: Folksong arrangment
The deaf woman's courtship
The stream in the valley
Tom Bowling
Artists
Mark Milhofer (tenor)Marco Scolastra (piano)
Works
Dink's SongFolksong arrangements Vol.1 (7) 'British Isles'
Folksong arrangements Vol.2 'France'
Folksong arrangements Vol.3 'British Isles'
Folksong arrangements Vol.4 'Moore's Irish Melodies'
Folksong arrangements Vol.5 'British Isles'
Greensleeves: Folksong arrangment for voice and piano
I wonder as I wander
Pray Goody
Soldier, won't you marry me?
The Crocodile (traditional)
The Holly and the Ivy: Folksong arrangment
The deaf woman's courtship
The stream in the valley
Tom Bowling
Artists
Mark Milhofer (tenor)Marco Scolastra (piano)
About
In cases such as The Foggy, Foggy Dew and O Waly, Waly, Britten’s arrangements have become better known than any ‘original’ version; they have assumed the identity of the song in the popular imagination, and the distinctive voice of Pears singing them imprinted itself on the imaginations of countless music-lovers in the second half of the last century. However, the songs retain their place in the concert repertoire of many young singers, often as more than encore material, and they admit a rich variety of interpretative approaches.
The tenor Mark Milhofer has previously taken part in Brilliant Classics surveys of the complete song output of Alban Berg (95549) and Francesco Tosti (Vol.1 – 95201), with the Berg attracting particularly enthusiastic praise: ‘Totally absorbing… convincingly performed from the first note to the last. Each performer brings sincerity and enthusiasm to this varied repertoire. The recording is ideal’ (MusicWeb International).
To this repertoire he brings a native facility and familiarity with the texts, and a keen sympathy also at work in his booklet essay for the collection. He began his musical career as a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, but subsequently became a student of Renata Scotto and Leyla Gencer in Rome; a vocal versatility which is ideally suited to Britten’s song-writing.
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