Elgar - Complete Songs Vol.2  | Channel Classics CCSSA28610

Elgar - Complete Songs Vol.2

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Label: Channel Classics

Cat No: CCSSA28610

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 22nd February 2010

Contents

Artists

Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
Reinild Mees (piano)

Artists

Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Konrad Jarnot (baritone)
Reinild Mees (piano)

About

"Without doubt the recording is a triumph, and must certainly go the top of recommended recordings of the songs. Amanda Roocroft and Konrad Jarnot are excellent throughout, with impeccable diction, warmth of tone, and the sense that they believe in the songs, and so they emerge as much finer works than they have sometimes been thought to be." - Elgar Society Journal

"Sound and presentation are absolutely first-rate. All in all, an encouraging start to what promises to be a fascination enterprise. Roll on, vol.2" - Gramophone

"A top release...Roocroft steps over the traces of sentimentality associated with the songs to find refreshingly subtle vocal colours and shadings. Likewise Jarnot strikes the profoundly complex emotional heart of pieces often milked for surface pathos...Eloquently matched by Mees's playing" - Classic FM

Contents:
Konrad Jarnot
1. Speak, my Heart! (1902)
2. Is she not passing fair? (1886)
3. A Song of Flight Op.31 No.2 (1900)
4. The Shepherd’s Song (1892)

Amanda Roocroft
5. The Language of Flowers (1872)
6. After Op.31 No.1 (1900)
7. It isnae me (1931)
8. The Pipes of Pan (1900)

Konrad Jarnot
9. Shakespeare’s Kingdom (1924)
10. Rondel Op.16 No.3 (1894)
11. The Poet’s Life (1892)
12. A War Song Op.5 (1884/1903)

Amanda Roocroft
13. The Torch Op.60 No.1 (1910)
14. The River Op.60 No.2 (1910)

Konrad Jarnot
15. Was it some golden Star? Op.59 No.5 (1910)
16. Through the long Days Op.16 No.2 (1885)
17. Arabian Serenade (1914)

Amanda Roocroft
18. As I laye a-thynkynge (1887)
19. Roundel (1897)
20. A Child asleep (1910)
21. The Chariots of the Lord (1910)
22. The King’s Way (1914)

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