The Contrast: English Poetry in Song
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2413
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th February 2020
Contents
Works
AdorationCome to Me in my Dreams
Go not, happy day, H34
Love went a-riding, H114
Mantle of blue
When most I wink
When you are old, H142
Arab Love Song
Autumn Evening
By a Fountainside
Dream Valley
Fair House of Joy
My Life's Delight
Orpheus with his lute
Silent Noon
The Sky above the Roof
A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table
Facade Settings (3)
Larkin Songs (5)
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
Works
AdorationCome to Me in my Dreams
Go not, happy day, H34
Love went a-riding, H114
Mantle of blue
When most I wink
When you are old, H142
Arab Love Song
Autumn Evening
By a Fountainside
Dream Valley
Fair House of Joy
My Life's Delight
Orpheus with his lute
Silent Noon
The Sky above the Roof
A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table
Facade Settings (3)
Larkin Songs (5)
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Joseph Middleton (piano)
About
Together with Joseph Middleton, her partner on several acclaimed recital discs, she has devised a highly contrasting programme bookended by two groups of songs by William Walton – A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table from 1962, celebrating the diversity of London, and three songs from Façade, the ‘entertainment’ with which the young composer gained both fame and notoriety in 1923. These frame settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter and Frank Bridge of poetry by writers from Shakespeare and Shelley to Keats and Yeats. In comparison, the anti-romantic poems by Philip Larkin have been described as marked by ‘a very English, glum accuracy’. Huw Watkins (b. 1976) has selected texts from across Larkin’s output, catching the various moods – ranging from a certain unsentimental nostalgia to the poet’s seemingly habitual pessimism - in settings that often carry a bittersweet sting in the tail.
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