Havergal Brian - The Soul of Steel, Legend
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Label: Toccata Classics
Cat No: TOCC0005
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 22nd October 2005
Contents
Artists
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)Roger Vignoles (piano)
Stephen Levine (violin)
Artists
Brian Rayner Cook (baritone)Roger Vignoles (piano)
Stephen Levine (violin)
About
The Soul of Steel - Settings of Blake, Shakespeare and other English poets
Legend for violin and piano
Havergal Brian (1876–1972) is renowned as the composer of 32 powerful symphonies (then the largest symphonic cycle since Haydn), 21 of them composed after his 80th birthday; his First Symphony, The Gothic, is reputed to be the largest ever composed. But in the first part of his career Brian was also active on a smaller scale, his songs attracting the advocacy of singers as prominent as John McCormack and John Coates. The range of emotion in these songs is nonetheless vast, from folky innocence via Shakespearean irony to deep tragedy. Brian Rayner Cook’s performances can be taken as authoritative: he studied the songs with the composer. The CD is completed by the Legend, Brian’s only surviving piece of chamber music.
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