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Barber / Gilchrist / Tilbrook- Solitude (CD)

SKU: 095115214527
¥159.00
the album cover for Barber / Gilchrist / Tilbrook - Solitude
the album cover for Barber / Gilchrist / Tilbrook - Solitude

James Gilchrist's theme for this recital, Solitude, is reflected in varied and contrasting ways by the four works. In his booklet note, he describes solitude as 'A state of being that we need, that perhaps we overlook too easily, that is harder to achieve and harder to endure and understand than we expect'. Henry Purcell's O! Solitude, my sweetest choice (in the arrangement by Benjamin Britten) focuses on twin themes of solitude: the peace found in the meditative state and the pain felt by being separated from loved ones. Schubert's Einsamkeit represents the importance of solitude as an important theme in the German romantic tradition: yearning for homeland, the lonely wanderer, and separated lovers appear again and again in the poetry, prose, and music of this era. In Under Alter'd Skies, Jonathan Dove explores the unwanted solitude of grief and loss. The cycle sets excerpts of In Memoriam, Alfred Lord Tennyson's response to the sudden death of his friend Arthur Hallam. The programme closes with Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, settings of the marginal jottings of mediaeval Irish monks as they copied or illuminated manuscripts. These extraordinary texts show the anonymous men, who chose a life of solitude and devotion to God, to be every bit as human as the rest of us!

Tracklist:

  1. Oh Solitude, Z. 406
  2. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Einsamkeit!
  3. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Thätigkeit!
  4. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Das Glück Der Geselligkeit!
  5. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Seligkeit!
  6. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Düsterkeit!
  7. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Weihe Der Einsamkeit!
  8. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 1, Fair Ship
  9. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 2, Calm Is The Morn
  10. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 3, To-Night The Winds Begin To Rise
  11. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 4, With Weary Steps
  12. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 5, Be Near Me
  13. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 6, Peace, Come Away
  14. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 7, Thy Voice Is On The Rolling Air
  15. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 1, At Saint Patrick's Purgatory
  16. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 2, Church Bells At Night
  17. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 3, St. Ita's Vision
  18. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 4, The Heavenly Banquet
  19. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 5, The Crucifixion
  20. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 6, Sea-Snatch
  21. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 7, Promiscuity
  22. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 8, The Monk And His Cat
  23. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 9, The Praises Of God
  24. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 10, The Desire For Hermitage
Format: New CD/Classical

Barber / Gilchrist / Tilbrook- Solitude (CD)

SKU: 095115214527
¥159.00

Release Date: 07.03.2020

 
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James Gilchrist's theme for this recital, Solitude, is reflected in varied and contrasting ways by the four works. In his booklet note, he describes solitude as 'A state of being that we need, that perhaps we overlook too easily, that is harder to achieve and harder to endure and understand than we expect'. Henry Purcell's O! Solitude, my sweetest choice (in the arrangement by Benjamin Britten) focuses on twin themes of solitude: the peace found in the meditative state and the pain felt by being separated from loved ones. Schubert's Einsamkeit represents the importance of solitude as an important theme in the German romantic tradition: yearning for homeland, the lonely wanderer, and separated lovers appear again and again in the poetry, prose, and music of this era. In Under Alter'd Skies, Jonathan Dove explores the unwanted solitude of grief and loss. The cycle sets excerpts of In Memoriam, Alfred Lord Tennyson's response to the sudden death of his friend Arthur Hallam. The programme closes with Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, settings of the marginal jottings of mediaeval Irish monks as they copied or illuminated manuscripts. These extraordinary texts show the anonymous men, who chose a life of solitude and devotion to God, to be every bit as human as the rest of us!

Tracklist:

  1. Oh Solitude, Z. 406
  2. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Einsamkeit!
  3. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Thätigkeit!
  4. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Das Glück Der Geselligkeit!
  5. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Seligkeit!
  6. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Fülle Der Düsterkeit!
  7. Einsamkeit, D. 620: Gib Mir Die Weihe Der Einsamkeit!
  8. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 1, Fair Ship
  9. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 2, Calm Is The Morn
  10. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 3, To-Night The Winds Begin To Rise
  11. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 4, With Weary Steps
  12. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 5, Be Near Me
  13. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 6, Peace, Come Away
  14. Under Alter'd Skies: No. 7, Thy Voice Is On The Rolling Air
  15. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 1, At Saint Patrick's Purgatory
  16. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 2, Church Bells At Night
  17. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 3, St. Ita's Vision
  18. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 4, The Heavenly Banquet
  19. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 5, The Crucifixion
  20. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 6, Sea-Snatch
  21. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 7, Promiscuity
  22. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 8, The Monk And His Cat
  23. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 9, The Praises Of God
  24. Hermit Songs, Op. 29: No. 10, The Desire For Hermitage