Philippe Sly, Michael McMahon - Love’s Minstrels (2014) [Hi-Res]

• Title: Love’s Minstrels
  
• Year Of Release: 2014
  
• Label: Groupe Analekta, Inc
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz
  
• Total Time: 01:02:30
  
• Total Size: 263 mb / 1.04 gb
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Tracklist

01. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
02. Ae Fond Kiss
03. Londonderry Air
04. Loch Lomond
05. Three Masefield Ballads: Sea Fever
06. Three Masefield Ballads: The Bells of San Marie
07. Three Masefield Ballads: The Vagabond
08. Five Shakespeare Songs: Fear No More the Heat O’ the Sun
09. Five Shakespeare Songs: Under the Greenwood Tree
10. Five Shakespeare Songs: It Was a Lover and His Lass
11. Five Shakespeare Songs: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
12. Five Shakespeare Songs: Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain
13. The House of Life: Love-Sight
14. The House of Life: Silent Noon
15. The House of Life: Love’s Minstrels
16. The House of Life: Heart’s Haven
17. The House of Life: Death-in-Love
18. The House of Life: Love’s Last Gift
19. Vedic Hymns: Ushas (Dawn)
20. Vedic Hymns: Varuna I (Sky)
21. Vedic Hymns: Maruts (Stormclouds)

Under the ANALEKTA label, charismatic bass-baritone Philippe Sly takes us back to an era, which may not be so distant in time (the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th), but that is light years away from our own century and points of reference. Here is LOVE'S MINISTRELS, the third album for this talented young man with a rich and strong voice. Philippe Sly, with all the sensitivity and intriguing power of his exceptional voice, delivers 21 songs frozen between two eras. He is accompanied on the piano by the amazing Michael McMahon, the partner of choice for some of the best Canadian singers.

The album brings together five composers whose works praise the legacy of the sometimes near, sometimes distant past. These works passionately bring to mind bucolic England, when British and Western history is making its way into a thriving new world.

These are the works of Ralph Vaughan William (1872-1958), based on poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828- 1882), a six-poem cycle; three ballads by John Ireland (1879-1953), based on the writings of John Masefield (1878-1967), poems that exalt the beauty of the landscapes and the dramatic lives of sailors. There are also five poems by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), set to music by Roger Quilter (1877-1953), a composer whose songs are largely inspired by England's well-known musical heritage; as well as four songs by the British composer who emigrated to Canada, Healey Willan (1880-1968), based on well-known poems, including one of the most often cited poems in English literature, Drink to me only with thine eyes. Also on the program, three songs that have evolved in the incantatory and contemplative sphere of Vedic hymns, a tradition that goes back to the 15th century B.C., works by Gustav Holst (1874-1934).

At the turn of the 20th century, in England especially, the pre-industrial era laid the foundation for this modern world. Here we have four-wheeled vehicles passing horse-drawn carriages on the streets, and the noise of heavy machinery overwhelms the soft murmur of the mill. The world will never be the same again. Philippe Sly and his accompanist, Michael McMahon, momentarily look away from their own points of reference and show great aesthetic sensitivity by transcending the distance between both worlds. In this century that suddenly became a brutal reality, this music provides a safe haven. It leaves the obvious mark of a dream full of romanticism and idealism at a time when humanity is at the crossroads and has just reached the point of no return.

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