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BAND/ARTIST: BBC Concert Orchestra & Barry Wordsworth
- Title: Elgar: Orchestral Songs
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +booklet
- Total Time: 01:30:21
- Total Size: 371 / 808 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
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CD1
01. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 1, O Soft Was the Song
02. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 2, Was It Some Golden Star?
03. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 3, Twilight
04. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 4, The Wind at Dawn
05. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 5, The Pipes of Pan
06. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 1, The Torch
07. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 2, The River
08. Pleading, Op. 48
09. Follow the Colours
10. The King's Way (Version for Voice & Orchestra)
11. Grania & Diarmid, Op. 42: No. 1, Incidental Music
12. Grania & Diarmid, Op. 42: No. 2, Funeral March
13. Grania & Diarmid, Op. 42: No. 3, There Are Seven That Pull the Thread
CD2
01. Like to the Damask Rose
02. 3 Songs, Op. 16: No. 1, The Shepherd's Song
03. Dry Those Fair, Those Crystal Eyes
04. The Millwheel (Winter)
05. Muleteers' Song
06. As I Laye A-Thynkynge
07. Queen Mary's Song
08. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 1, The Torch
09. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 2, The River
10. 2 Songs, Op. 41: No. 1, In the Dawn
11. 2 Songs, Op. 41: No. 2, Speak, Music
Somm Recordings is delighted to present a revelatory collection of orchestral songs by Sir Edward Elgar performed by two of today’s most exciting young singers – mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and baritone Henk Neven – accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
The Hills of Dreamland takes its title from a line in Elgar’s well-known setting, beautifully still and beseeching, of Arthur L Salmon’s Pleading.
Historically the least regarded part of Elgar’s output, his songs contain a treasure-trove of vocal gems and here receive performances of insight, imagination and emotional directness.
The Op.59 Song Cycle is an exemplary case in point, by turns quietly radiant, touchingly nostalgic and achingly melancholic. Two settings of poems by Elgar’s wife – the richly orchestrated The Wind at Dawn and celebratory The King’s Way (which borrows a tune from his Fourth Pomp and Circumstance March) – show Elgar at his most evocative and ebullient.
Sombre and powerful, The Pipes of Pan boasts colourful imagery and driving rhythmic energy, The River and The Torch wholly Elgarian in their wonderful sonorities.
A first recording of the orchestral version of the marching song Follow the Colours shows Elgar at his most patriotic.
The complete incidental music for a 1901 staging of WB Yeats’ Grania and Diarmid offers a rare opportunity to experience the full gamut of Elgar’s moving and dramatic evocation of a timeless tale of love in the ancient Irish myth.
A Bonus Disc of recordings made under the auspices of the Elgar Society showcases soprano Nathalie de Montmollin and pianist Barry Collett in a collection of piano-accompanied songs. It includes first recordings of the piano version of ‘Winter’ from The Mill Wheel (with its churning left-hand patterns and a text by the composer’s wife) and the world-weary tread of Muleteer’s Serenade, setting words from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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CD1
01. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 1, O Soft Was the Song
02. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 2, Was It Some Golden Star?
03. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 3, Twilight
04. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 4, The Wind at Dawn
05. Song Cycle, Op. 59: No. 5, The Pipes of Pan
06. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 1, The Torch
07. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 2, The River
08. Pleading, Op. 48
09. Follow the Colours
10. The King's Way (Version for Voice & Orchestra)
11. Grania & Diarmid, Op. 42: No. 1, Incidental Music
12. Grania & Diarmid, Op. 42: No. 2, Funeral March
13. Grania & Diarmid, Op. 42: No. 3, There Are Seven That Pull the Thread
CD2
01. Like to the Damask Rose
02. 3 Songs, Op. 16: No. 1, The Shepherd's Song
03. Dry Those Fair, Those Crystal Eyes
04. The Millwheel (Winter)
05. Muleteers' Song
06. As I Laye A-Thynkynge
07. Queen Mary's Song
08. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 1, The Torch
09. 2 Songs, Op. 60: No. 2, The River
10. 2 Songs, Op. 41: No. 1, In the Dawn
11. 2 Songs, Op. 41: No. 2, Speak, Music
Somm Recordings is delighted to present a revelatory collection of orchestral songs by Sir Edward Elgar performed by two of today’s most exciting young singers – mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and baritone Henk Neven – accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
The Hills of Dreamland takes its title from a line in Elgar’s well-known setting, beautifully still and beseeching, of Arthur L Salmon’s Pleading.
Historically the least regarded part of Elgar’s output, his songs contain a treasure-trove of vocal gems and here receive performances of insight, imagination and emotional directness.
The Op.59 Song Cycle is an exemplary case in point, by turns quietly radiant, touchingly nostalgic and achingly melancholic. Two settings of poems by Elgar’s wife – the richly orchestrated The Wind at Dawn and celebratory The King’s Way (which borrows a tune from his Fourth Pomp and Circumstance March) – show Elgar at his most evocative and ebullient.
Sombre and powerful, The Pipes of Pan boasts colourful imagery and driving rhythmic energy, The River and The Torch wholly Elgarian in their wonderful sonorities.
A first recording of the orchestral version of the marching song Follow the Colours shows Elgar at his most patriotic.
The complete incidental music for a 1901 staging of WB Yeats’ Grania and Diarmid offers a rare opportunity to experience the full gamut of Elgar’s moving and dramatic evocation of a timeless tale of love in the ancient Irish myth.
A Bonus Disc of recordings made under the auspices of the Elgar Society showcases soprano Nathalie de Montmollin and pianist Barry Collett in a collection of piano-accompanied songs. It includes first recordings of the piano version of ‘Winter’ from The Mill Wheel (with its churning left-hand patterns and a text by the composer’s wife) and the world-weary tread of Muleteer’s Serenade, setting words from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Year 2018 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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