Music All Powerful: Music to entertain Queen Victoria
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4802091
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th April 2011
Contents
Works
Albert, Prince of Saxe, Coburg und Gotha
Melody for the ViolinSweet and Low
Come let us join the roundelay
The Lark now leaves his Watery Nest
Arlequine, op.53
Mazurka
Air Varie, op.21
Duets (6), op.63
O that we two were maying
I would I were a King
The Long Day Closes
The Stars beyond the Cloud
Music, all powerful
Artists
Jennifer Partridge (piano)Iona Brown (violin)
Alan Lumsden (ophicleide)
David King (speaker)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Conductor
Grayston BurgessWorks
Albert, Prince of Saxe, Coburg und Gotha
Melody for the ViolinSweet and Low
Come let us join the roundelay
The Lark now leaves his Watery Nest
Arlequine, op.53
Mazurka
Air Varie, op.21
Duets (6), op.63
O that we two were maying
I would I were a King
The Long Day Closes
The Stars beyond the Cloud
Music, all powerful
Artists
Jennifer Partridge (piano)Iona Brown (violin)
Alan Lumsden (ophicleide)
David King (speaker)
Purcell Consort of Voices
Conductor
Grayston BurgessAbout
The Purcell Consort of Voices under Grayston Burgess are joined by a group of instrumental soloists, including the superb violinist Iona Brown, with pianist Jennifer Partridge both accompanying and playing a Mendelssohn Song without Words and a Chaminade piece.
For bringing back songs from obscurity alone this is a worthy CD. But it also recalls obscure composers like Pinsuti, Klosé, Beale, Galkin, Walmisley and Callcott and an obscure instrument - the ophicleide (the instrument Mendelssohn wanted for Bottom’s braying in the Midsummer Night’s Dream overture). The performances are idiomatic and charming, the programming a joy. Geoffrey Coleby provides the amusing notes: ‘…when they could burst the shackles of their dreadful academic training, the Victorians could show a touching great-heartedness which is their most endearing feature’.
All song texts are included.
‘irresistably charming … And there is plenty of variety … Sweet and low [is] most beautifully sung … A particularly charming item is the duet by Alice M. Smith … Alan Lumsden (a trombonist by profession) is splendid in the variations by Klosé for ophicleide and piano. I had not previously heard a solo on this instrument, and it is a memorable experience’ - Gramophone
Track Listing:
BERTHOLD TOURS
1. The Stars beyond the Cloud
CIRO PINSUTI
2. Good night, Beloved
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
3. I would I were a King
PRINCE ALBERT
4. Melody for the Violin
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
5. The Passage Bird's Farewell (Abschied der Zugvogel), Op.63 No.2
6. Song without words, Op.38 No.2 'Lost Happiness'
SIR JOSEPH BARNBY
7. Sweet and low
HYACINTH ELEANORE KLOSE
8. Air Varie for ophicleide
WILLIAM BEALE
9. Come let us join the Roundelay
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
10. Autumn Song (Herbstlied), Op.63 No.4
NIKOLAI VLADIMIROVICH GALKIN
11. Mazurka
THOMAS FORBES WALMISLEY
12. Music, all powerful
ALICE MARY SMITH
13. O that we two were maying
JOHN GEORGE CALLCOTT
14. The Lark now leaves his Watery Nest
CECILE CHAMINADE
15. Arlequin
ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON
16. A Loyal Ode
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
17. The Long Day Closes
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