One Hundred Years of British Song Vol.3: Dickinson, Woolrich, Poole, Dring, Williamson
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0646
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 21st January 2022
Contents
Works
Let the florid music praiseW.H. Auden Songs (4)
Betjeman Songs (5)
The Eye of the Blackbird
Intermezzo
The Little That Was Once a Man
The Unlit Suburbs
Artists
James Gilchrist (tenor)Nathan Williamson (piano)
Works
Let the florid music praiseW.H. Auden Songs (4)
Betjeman Songs (5)
The Eye of the Blackbird
Intermezzo
The Little That Was Once a Man
The Unlit Suburbs
Artists
James Gilchrist (tenor)Nathan Williamson (piano)
About
Focusing on songs written since 1950, Volume 3 celebrates what Williamson’s booklet note describes as “astonishment at the depth of expressivity of the poetry and music”.
Receiving first recordings are John Woolrich’s settings of Irish poet Matthew Sweeney, The Unlit Suburbs, a deadpan yet evocative exercise in “alternative realism”, and Geoffrey Poole’s stylistically wide-ranging The Eye of the Blackbird, with texts from Virginia Woolf, traditional Nigerian poems, Wallace Stevens, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Requiem Mass.
Also on disc for the first time are Williamson’s own song-cycle setting poems by Bryan Heiser composed especially for James Gilchrist, The Little That Was Once a Man, and solo-piano miniature, Intermezzo. Peter Dickinson’s early, accomplished Four W.H. Auden Songs and dramatic and intense yet positive and joyful Let the Florid Music Praise, and Madeleine Dring’s characterful Five Betjeman Songs, the product of a “fascinating and multi-faceted artistic personality”, complete the disc.
Gramophone hailed Volume 1 (SOMMCD0621) as “a most impressive release” and Limelight, awarding its Recording of the Month accolade, as “a penetrating, frequently revelatory start to a promising new series”. Of Volume 2 (SOMMCD0636), MusicWeb International said: “It is redundant to declare that this is a superlative CD. Considering the two performers, the technical prowess of SOMM Recordings, the excellent liner notes and the imaginative and wide-ranging programme, it could be nothing else”.
Gilchrist’s SOMM releases include Parry’s English Lyrics (SOMMCD 257 and 270) and Penelope Thwaites’s From Five Continents (SOMMCD0612), to which, theclassicalreview said, “Gilchrist brings authority throughout”.
Williamson’s SOMM association includes Great American Sonatas (SOMMCD0163), “a release of distinction” (Gramophone), and Colour and Light (SOMMCD0196), a 2019 Recording of the Year for International Piano.
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