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Bridge / Gilchrist / Williamson- One Hundred Years 1

SKU: 748871062122
¥147.00
the album cover for Bridge / Gilchrist / Williamson - One Hundred Years 1
the album cover for Bridge / Gilchrist / Williamson - One Hundred Years 1

SOMM Recordings launches a revealing three-volume survey of One Hundred Years of British Song with tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Nathan Williamson. Compiled to reflect the rich variety of British song, Volume 1 throws a spotlight on composers who made a considerable contribution to the song repertoire but whose success in other genres often led to their songs being overlooked. All four featured composers - Gustav Holst, Rebecca Clarke, Ivor Gurney and Frank Bridge - were born in the late 1800s and lived through the horrors of the First World War and the extraordinary social, cultural and political upheaval that followed. Two songs by Holst - the liturgically-accented A Vigil of Pentecost and folk- infused The Ballad of Hunting Knowe - receive first recordings. Songs from Holst's Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs are also heard alongside Clarke's macabre setting of AE Housman's Eight O'Clock and John Masefield's The Seal Man, which Williamson describes in his informative booklet notes as "one of the most thrilling English songs in the repertoire". Also featured are Ivor Gurney's powerful and poignant Snow and Sleep and his affecting treatment of WB Yeats' Down by the Salley Gardens together with Four Songs by Frank Bridge including three romantically heightened settings of Rabindranath Tagore and the deeply moving, lullaby-like Journey's End to a text by Humbert Wolfe.

Tracklist:

  1. A Vigil Of Pentecost, H. 123
  2. The Ballad Of Hunting Knowe, H. 147
  3. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 1, Persephone
  4. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 4, A Little Music
  5. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 8, The Dream-City
  6. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 6, The Floral Bandit
  7. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 12, Betelgeuse
  8. June Twilight
  9. The Seal Man
  10. A Dream
  11. Eight O'clock
  12. Down By The Salley Gardens
  13. Snow
  14. Lights Out: No. 4, Lights Out
  15. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep
  16. 3 Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version For Voice & Piano): No. 1, Day After Day
  17. 3 Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version For Voice & Piano): No. 2, Speak To Me, My Love!
  18. 3 Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version For Voice & Piano): No. 3, Dweller In My Deathless Dreams
  19. Journey's End, H. 167
Format: New CD/Classical

Bridge / Gilchrist / Williamson- One Hundred Years 1

SKU: 748871062122
¥147.00

Release Date: 10.16.2020

 
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SOMM Recordings launches a revealing three-volume survey of One Hundred Years of British Song with tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Nathan Williamson. Compiled to reflect the rich variety of British song, Volume 1 throws a spotlight on composers who made a considerable contribution to the song repertoire but whose success in other genres often led to their songs being overlooked. All four featured composers - Gustav Holst, Rebecca Clarke, Ivor Gurney and Frank Bridge - were born in the late 1800s and lived through the horrors of the First World War and the extraordinary social, cultural and political upheaval that followed. Two songs by Holst - the liturgically-accented A Vigil of Pentecost and folk- infused The Ballad of Hunting Knowe - receive first recordings. Songs from Holst's Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs are also heard alongside Clarke's macabre setting of AE Housman's Eight O'Clock and John Masefield's The Seal Man, which Williamson describes in his informative booklet notes as "one of the most thrilling English songs in the repertoire". Also featured are Ivor Gurney's powerful and poignant Snow and Sleep and his affecting treatment of WB Yeats' Down by the Salley Gardens together with Four Songs by Frank Bridge including three romantically heightened settings of Rabindranath Tagore and the deeply moving, lullaby-like Journey's End to a text by Humbert Wolfe.

Tracklist:

  1. A Vigil Of Pentecost, H. 123
  2. The Ballad Of Hunting Knowe, H. 147
  3. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 1, Persephone
  4. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 4, A Little Music
  5. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 8, The Dream-City
  6. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 6, The Floral Bandit
  7. 12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts): No. 12, Betelgeuse
  8. June Twilight
  9. The Seal Man
  10. A Dream
  11. Eight O'clock
  12. Down By The Salley Gardens
  13. Snow
  14. Lights Out: No. 4, Lights Out
  15. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep
  16. 3 Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version For Voice & Piano): No. 1, Day After Day
  17. 3 Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version For Voice & Piano): No. 2, Speak To Me, My Love!
  18. 3 Songs Of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version For Voice & Piano): No. 3, Dweller In My Deathless Dreams
  19. Journey's End, H. 167