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Brian Rayner Cook - Songs, Legend (2000)

Brian Rayner Cook - Songs, Legend (2000)

BAND/ARTIST: Brian Rayner Cook, Peter Lawson, Roger Vignoles, Stephen Levine

  • Title: Songs, Legend
  • Year Of Release: 2000
  • Label: Toccata Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
  • Total Time: 56:34 min
  • Total Size: 201 MB
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Tracklist:

1. When Icicles Hang by the Wall
2. Take, O Take Those Lips Away
3. Sorrow Song
4. The Message
5. Farewell
6. Care-Charmer Sleep
7. Since Love is Dead
8. The Soul of Steel
9. Why Dost Thou Wound, and Break My Heart?
10. On Parting
11. Lady Ellayne
12. Renunciation
13. Love is a Merry Game
14. Piping Down the Valleys Wild
15. The Chimney Sweeper
16. The Land of Dreams
17. The Defiled Sanctuary
18. Legend


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 for violin and piano, Brian’s only surviving piece of chamber music.

Brian Rayner Cook, baritone
Roger Vignoles, piano
Stephen Levine, violin
Peter Lawson, piano


Classical | FLAC / APE

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