James Gilchrist, Eric McElroy - Tongues of Fire - Songs by Eric McElroy (2023)
BAND/ARTIST: James Gilchrist, Eric McElroy
- Title: Tongues of Fire - Songs by Eric McElroy
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:15:05
- Total Size: 256 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: I. Misterioso
02. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: Ii. Stalking
03. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: Iii. Statuary I
04. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: Iv. Statuary Ii
05. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: V. This
06. A Short Story of Falling: A Poem of Alice Oswald
07. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: I. On a Distant Shore
08. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: Ii. The Laughing Thrush
09. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: Iii. The Morning
10. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: Iv. The Nomad Flute
11. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: V. After the Voices
12. Tongues of Fire, Three Poems of Grevel Lindop: I. Watching
13. Tongues of Fire, Three Poems of Grevel Lindop: Ii. Mirror and Candle
14. Tongues of Fire, Three Poems of Grevel Lindop: Iii. Myth
15. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: I. Two Fusiliers
16. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Ii. Here They Lie
17. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Iii. A Dead Boche
18. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Iv. Haunted
19. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: V. I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child
20. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Vi. Strong Beer
SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the label debut of pianist-composer Eric McElroy with Tongues of Fire, a collection of 20 songs, all in premiere recordings, performed with acclaimed tenor James Gilchrist.
American-born, Oxford, England-based, McElroy has composed extensively for piano, voice, choir, orchestra and various chamber ensembles, and has a growing reputation for his song settings of contemporary poets.
Tongues of Fire features four song-cycles and a single song by living and 20th-century poets. Six of Robert Graves’ early war poems form ‘A Dead Man’s Embers’. As McElroy comments in his erudite booklet notes, the songs are “about death, exploring as they do our schizophrenic feelings of terror and awe towards the subject”.
The much-lauded American poet W.S. Merwin provides the source for ‘After the Voices’, five songs with an “undercurrent of displacement, nostalgia, and identity” that gloss the poet’s conviction that “poetry is about what cannot be said”. Setting five poems by Gregory Leadbetter, The Fetch, says McElroy, is “a song-cycle about the uncanny… a confrontation between experience and language”.
The disc’s title, Tongues of Fire, is taken from three settings by Grevel Lindop, whose work McElroy asserts, “exemplifies the Erotic Sublime [and] conveys truths about love and desire that are, in the profoundest sense, universal”.
Completing the disc is Alice Oswald’s A Short Story of Falling, which “expresses in couplets the enormous range of water’s manifestations and powers… evoking both the grace and wild force of waterscapes that exist above, below, around, and within ourselves…. a poem that is full of joy”.
James Gilchrist’s previous SOMM recordings include three admired volumes of One Hundred Years of British Song (SOMMCD 0621; 0636; 0646), two volumes of Parry’s English Lyrics (SOMMCD 257; 270), and Penelope Thwaites’ From Five Continents (SOMMCD 0612), to which, theclassicalreview said, “Gilchrist brings authority throughout”.
01. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: I. Misterioso
02. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: Ii. Stalking
03. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: Iii. Statuary I
04. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: Iv. Statuary Ii
05. The Fetch, Five Poems of Gregory Leadbetter: V. This
06. A Short Story of Falling: A Poem of Alice Oswald
07. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: I. On a Distant Shore
08. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: Ii. The Laughing Thrush
09. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: Iii. The Morning
10. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: Iv. The Nomad Flute
11. After the Voices, Five Poems of W.S. Merwin: V. After the Voices
12. Tongues of Fire, Three Poems of Grevel Lindop: I. Watching
13. Tongues of Fire, Three Poems of Grevel Lindop: Ii. Mirror and Candle
14. Tongues of Fire, Three Poems of Grevel Lindop: Iii. Myth
15. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: I. Two Fusiliers
16. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Ii. Here They Lie
17. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Iii. A Dead Boche
18. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Iv. Haunted
19. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: V. I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child
20. A Dead Man's Embers, Six Poems of Robert Graves: Vi. Strong Beer
SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the label debut of pianist-composer Eric McElroy with Tongues of Fire, a collection of 20 songs, all in premiere recordings, performed with acclaimed tenor James Gilchrist.
American-born, Oxford, England-based, McElroy has composed extensively for piano, voice, choir, orchestra and various chamber ensembles, and has a growing reputation for his song settings of contemporary poets.
Tongues of Fire features four song-cycles and a single song by living and 20th-century poets. Six of Robert Graves’ early war poems form ‘A Dead Man’s Embers’. As McElroy comments in his erudite booklet notes, the songs are “about death, exploring as they do our schizophrenic feelings of terror and awe towards the subject”.
The much-lauded American poet W.S. Merwin provides the source for ‘After the Voices’, five songs with an “undercurrent of displacement, nostalgia, and identity” that gloss the poet’s conviction that “poetry is about what cannot be said”. Setting five poems by Gregory Leadbetter, The Fetch, says McElroy, is “a song-cycle about the uncanny… a confrontation between experience and language”.
The disc’s title, Tongues of Fire, is taken from three settings by Grevel Lindop, whose work McElroy asserts, “exemplifies the Erotic Sublime [and] conveys truths about love and desire that are, in the profoundest sense, universal”.
Completing the disc is Alice Oswald’s A Short Story of Falling, which “expresses in couplets the enormous range of water’s manifestations and powers… evoking both the grace and wild force of waterscapes that exist above, below, around, and within ourselves…. a poem that is full of joy”.
James Gilchrist’s previous SOMM recordings include three admired volumes of One Hundred Years of British Song (SOMMCD 0621; 0636; 0646), two volumes of Parry’s English Lyrics (SOMMCD 257; 270), and Penelope Thwaites’ From Five Continents (SOMMCD 0612), to which, theclassicalreview said, “Gilchrist brings authority throughout”.
Year 2023 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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