On This Shining Night: Songs for Voice and String Quartet
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0654
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 17th June 2022
Contents
Works
Dover Beach, op.3Songs (3), op.10
I-Brasil (arr. Roderick Williams)
Songs (7) from the Norwegian
Chopcherry
Corpus Christi
Mourn no moe
My Lady is a pretty one
My Little Sweet Darling
My gostly fader
Sleep
Sorrow's Lullaby
Take, O take those lips away
The Fairest May
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)James Gilchrist (tenor)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Coull Quartet
Works
Dover Beach, op.3Songs (3), op.10
I-Brasil (arr. Roderick Williams)
Songs (7) from the Norwegian
Chopcherry
Corpus Christi
Mourn no moe
My Lady is a pretty one
My Little Sweet Darling
My gostly fader
Sleep
Sorrow's Lullaby
Take, O take those lips away
The Fairest May
Artists
Roderick Williams (baritone)James Gilchrist (tenor)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Coull Quartet
About
With six first recordings, On This Shining Night is a ravishing recital focusing revealingly on a 20th-century phenomenon: works for voice and string quartet. It takes its title from a James Agate setting by Samuel Barber (whose masterly Dover Beach is also heard), here in a sublime arrangement by Roderick Williams.
Williams also provides arrangements of Barber’s Sleep Now and three Frederick Delius pieces from his Seven Songs from the Norwegian: the evocative Twilight Fancies, vivacious Young Venevil and exotic I-Brasil.
They serve, as Robert Matthew-Walker’s erudite booklet notes observe, as companions to 11 songs by Delius’s close friend and associate, Peter Warlock, including the gentle intimacy of Corpus Christi, the “mini-cantata” Sorrow’s Lullaby, and unique free-recitative of My gostly vader.
Composed for Williams and the Coull Quartet, Sally Beamish’s five-part Tree Carols offer striking, variegated settings of poems by Fiona Sampson in their premiere recording.
Roderick Williams’s SOMM catalogue include the acclaimed three-volume Twelve Sets of English Lyrics by Hubert Parry (SOMMCD257, 270, 272), Sally Beamish’s Four Songs from Hafez (Birdsong, SOMMCD0633), and the classic English song cycles A Shropshire Lad and Maud (SOMMCD0615), which MusicWeb International declared a “game changer… in terms of our appreciation of Arthur Somervell’s songs”.
The Coull Quartet has recorded a wide repertoire for SOMM. Their recording of Nicholas Maw and Benjamin Britten quartets (SOMMCD065) was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and a BBC Music Magazine Benchmark Recording. Gramophone declared their recent SOMM release with Clélia Iruzun, Treasures from the New World, featuring piano quintets by Amy Beach and Henrique Oswald (SOMMCD0609), “a delight”.
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