Lola Williams - Where Should This Music Be: Songs
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80818
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 18th October 2019
Contents
Works
A Sweet LullabyBlow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Celia Sings: Be Merry
Christmas Words
Come Away, Death
Feste's Song
How Do I Love (Thee) You?
Manger Scene
My Dancing Day (17th-century English carol)
O Mistress Mine
Our Revels Now Are Ended
Plot of the Fairy King
Scene from The Tempest (Act 1)
Sigh No More, Ladies
Sonnet 116
The Cuckoo Sings (for Spring)
The Owl Sings (for Winter)
There's Only One Man
Threnos (for Romeo and Juliet)
Artists
Sarah Moulton Faux (soprano)Ted Taylor (piano)
Works
A Sweet LullabyBlow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Celia Sings: Be Merry
Christmas Words
Come Away, Death
Feste's Song
How Do I Love (Thee) You?
Manger Scene
My Dancing Day (17th-century English carol)
O Mistress Mine
Our Revels Now Are Ended
Plot of the Fairy King
Scene from The Tempest (Act 1)
Sigh No More, Ladies
Sonnet 116
The Cuckoo Sings (for Spring)
The Owl Sings (for Winter)
There's Only One Man
Threnos (for Romeo and Juliet)
Artists
Sarah Moulton Faux (soprano)Ted Taylor (piano)
About
Williams was a serious Shakespearean scholar as well as music educator, but it was not until her retirement that she was able to fully dedicate herself to writing and composition. She quietly created a large body of art songs, mostly inspired by Shakespearean texts, for female voices solos, duets, and trios which she seldom shared outside of private clubs.
In their melding of vernacular musical forms with classical techniques, her lyrical and tonally lush compositions are reminiscent of the music of Frederick Delius and Gustav Mahler. The immense work of Williams’s later years languished, untouched, in boxes in her son Derek Williams’s basement until he contacted Sarah Moulton Faux, an acclaimed soprano and former student, who instantly recognized its value. Faux and her long-time collaborator Ted Taylor laboured over handwritten drafts, puzzling out the most complete versions, and analyzing the composer’s intent.
The resulting programme demonstrates Williams’s felicitous pairing of text and music, matching Shakespeare’s inimitable wit and profound verse to painterly/ illustrative melodies that are fortunately preserved. This world-premiere recording features texts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet, as well as Sonnet 116. A rarity is a setting of Shakespeare’s only surviving allegorical poem, The Phoenix and the Turtle.
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