Barber - Complete Songs
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96514
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 31st March 2023
Contents
Works
A Slumber Song of the MadonnaAsk me to rest
Au clair de la lune
Beggar's Song
Despite and still, op.41
Fantasy in Purple
Hermit Songs (10), op.29
In the Dark Pinewood
La Nuit
Love's Caution
Love at the Door
Man
Melodies passageres (5), op.27
Mother I cannot mind my wheel
Music, when soft voices die
Night Wanderers
Nuvoletta, op.25
Of that so sweet imprisonment
Peace
Poems of the Wind (2)
Serenader
Songs (2), op.18
Songs (3) 'The Words from Old England'
Songs (3), op.2
Songs (3), op.10
Songs (3), op.45
Songs (4), op.13
Songs of Youth (2)
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Strings in the earth and air
There's Nae Lark
Thy Love
Watchers
Who carries corn and crown
Artists
Leilah Dione Ezra (soprano)Elisabetta Lombardi (mezzo-soprano)
Mauro Borgioni (baritone)
Filippo Farinelli (piano)
Works
A Slumber Song of the MadonnaAsk me to rest
Au clair de la lune
Beggar's Song
Despite and still, op.41
Fantasy in Purple
Hermit Songs (10), op.29
In the Dark Pinewood
La Nuit
Love's Caution
Love at the Door
Man
Melodies passageres (5), op.27
Mother I cannot mind my wheel
Music, when soft voices die
Night Wanderers
Nuvoletta, op.25
Of that so sweet imprisonment
Peace
Poems of the Wind (2)
Serenader
Songs (2), op.18
Songs (3) 'The Words from Old England'
Songs (3), op.2
Songs (3), op.10
Songs (3), op.45
Songs (4), op.13
Songs of Youth (2)
Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
Strings in the earth and air
There's Nae Lark
Thy Love
Watchers
Who carries corn and crown
Artists
Leilah Dione Ezra (soprano)Elisabetta Lombardi (mezzo-soprano)
Mauro Borgioni (baritone)
Filippo Farinelli (piano)
About
However, by the time of the Op.10 Songs, Barber’s harmonies have thickened in texture and expressionist harmony: these are heroic numbers demanding an interpreter of heroic projection, another world away from the almost painfully confessional mood of the music which has made his name such as Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Nevertheless, they paint a vivid portrait of Barber himself, who had a fine baritone voice and would delight in performing his songs while accompanying himself at the piano.
Barber could read Proust in French, Goethe in German, Dante in Italian and Neruda in Spanish, and his erudite choice of poets and poems reflected facets of his complex character: a restless melancholy on the one hand, and an impish wit on the other. His part-Irish ancestry drew him towards Joyce, Yeats and James Stephens, and his interest in his Celtic heritage prompted the writing of his best-known song-prompted the writing of his best-known song-cycle, the Hermit Songs, op.29. Much later in life, he returned to song (and to Joyce) with Despite and Still, op.41, and the Three Songs, op.45. Both collections are coloured by introspection and resignation, but they are masterpieces of the song-writer’s art.
Among his many recordings for Brilliant Classics, the pianist Filippo Farinelli has made complete surveys of the song output of Berg, Ravel, Dallapiccola and Jolivet, in conjunction with colleagues who have immersed themselves in the idiom. Here he is likewise joined by a trio of Italian singers who show themselves at home with the wistful, changeable moods of Barber the song-composer.
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