Sounds, Sweet Airs and the Art of Longing | Lawo Classics LWC1042

Sounds, Sweet Airs and the Art of Longing

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Label: Lawo Classics

Cat No: LWC1042

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 13th May 2013

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John Dowland remains, without doubt, one of the greatest British composers ever, and his music for voice and lute belongs to the standard repertoire. The compositions of Henry Lawes and Nicholas Lanier are as simple as they are complex, and they leave room for creativity and interpretation.

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ songs contain traces of the folk music of times past and, as such, they have direct links with the long tradition of English song. Norwegian Benedicte Torget’s modern, cool sounds, composed to melancholy texts of the Brontė sisters, bring us up to the present, while binding us to the past.

Contents:
1. Orpheus with his lute
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Text: William Shakespeare

2. Bid me but live
Henry Lawes, Text: Robert Herrick

3. Divine
Benedicte Torget, Text: Emily Brontė

4. Sweet stay awhile
Henry Lawes, Text: John Donne

5. Slide soft you silver floods
Henry Lawes, Text: William Browne

6. No more shall meads be deck’d with flow'rs/Love's constancy
Nicholas Lanier, Text: Thomas Carew

7. Let beauty awake
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Text: Robert Louis Stevenson

8. Weep no more
Nicholas Lanier, Text: Christopher Marlowe

9. Oh, dream where art thou now
Benedicte Torget, Text: Emily Brontė

10. Take, o take
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Text: William Shakespeare

11. Prelude
Francesco Corbetta

12. The sky above the roof
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Text: Mabel Dearmer

13. Diving
Benedicte Torget, Text: Emily Brontė

14. Wert thou yet fairer than thou art
Henry Lawes

15. Transcendent beauty
Henry Lawes

16. Tell me not that I die or live by thee
John Taylor

17. A clear midnight/Evening hymn
Ralph Vaughan Williams/Henry Purcell, Text: Walt Whitman

18. Mr Dowland’s midnight
John Dowland

19. Lullaby
Benedicte Torget, Text: Emily Brontė

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