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You might guess from some of the packaging here that British baritone Mark Stone is trying to enter crossover territory with this recital of British love songs, but in fact he plays it straight, with nary a pop influence in sight. This is not to say the album wouldn't make a good Valentine gift for the right person. Stone's program has several virtues, not least among them the fact that no one will need the supplied booklet texts; his delivery is natural and perfectly intelligible, animated by the syntax of the poetry. His voice, warm and most attractive in its middle register, is well suited to art song. Best of all is his knack for making songs from various eras hang together within his stated concept: "songs of passion, pain, & pleasure." (There are even a few songs that hint at more metaphysical love.) The range is from Dowland to a song in the style of Roger Quilter by Stone's able accompanist, Stephen Barlow, with a concentration of songs from Britain in the early 20th century and a smaller group from the Baroque; even with a pair of Haydn's English songs in the mix, the music seems to reflect an English mode of expression and a characteristic tendency to draw on high-quality texts; sample Frank Bridge's setting of Matthew Arnold (track 7) or George Butterworth's pair of songs to A.E. Housman, especially the weirdly static With rue my heart is laden (track 13). The album is worthwhile not only as a fine collection of love songs, but perhaps even as an introduction to modern British song; the stylistic contrasts among the various composers emerge clearly when their energies are focused on a single theme. A fine effort; great fun.
© TiVo
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The House of Life (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
5 Mystical Songs (version for voice and keyboard) (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - George Herbert, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Book of Songs, Book 1: Come again, sweet love doth now invite (John Dowland)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - John Dowland, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
5 English Love Lyrics, Op. 24 (Roger Quilter)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Edmund Waller, Lyricist - Roger Quilter, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
3 Songs, Op. 3 (text by P.B. Shelley) (Roger Quilter)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Roger Quilter, Composer - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
The Indian Queen, Z. 630 (arr. B. Britten) (Benjamin Britten)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Henry Purcell, Composer - John Dryden, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Come to me in my dreams (Frank Bridge)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Frank Bridge, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Love went a-riding (Frank Bridge)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Frank Bridge, Composer - Mary Coleridge, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Tolomeo, HWV 25, Act I: Aria: Non Io diro col labbro (arr. Somervell) (Somervell)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Somervell, Composer - Nicola Haym, Lyricist - George Frideric Handel, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
If we must part (John Ireland)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Ernest Dowson, Lyricist - John Ireland, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Love is a sickness full of woes (John Ireland)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - John Ireland, Composer - Samuel Daniel, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
6 Original Canzonettas, Book 2, Hob.XXVIa:31-36 (text by Anonymous) (Joseph Haydn)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Franz Joseph Haydn, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Bredon Hill and Other Songs (George Butterworth)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - George Butterworth, Composer - A.E. Housman, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad (George Butterworth)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - A.E. Housman, Lyricist - George Butterworth, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
6 Original Canzonettas, Book 1, Hob.XXIVa:25-30 (Joseph Haydn)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Franz Joseph Haydn, Composer - Anne Hunter, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Take, O take those lips away (Peter Warlock)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - William Shakespeare, Lyricist - Peter Warlock, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Thou gav'st me leave to kiss (Peter Warlock)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Peter Warlock, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Semele, HWV 58 (arr. E. Prout) (Ebenezer Prout)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - William Congreve, Lyricist - Ebenezer Prout, Composer - George Frideric Handel, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15 (Gerald Finzi)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Gerald Finzi, Composer - Thomas Hardy, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
I said to Love, Op. 19b (Gerald Finzi)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Gerald Finzi, Composer - Thomas Hardy, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
If music be the food of love, Z. 379 (arr. B. Britten) (Henry Purcell)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Henry Heveningham, Lyricist - Henry Purcell, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, 'British Isles' (Benjamin Britten)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Benjamin Britten, Composer - Traditional, Lyricist
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Wild with passion (Benjamin Britten)
Stephen Barlow, Performer - Mark Stone, Performer - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Lyricist - Benjamin Britten, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Book of Songs, Book 1: Come again, sweet love doth now invite (John Dowland)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - John Dowland, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
If thou would'st ease thine heart (Stephen Barlow)
Mark Stone, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Performer - Stephen Barlow, Composer
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
Albumbeschreibung
You might guess from some of the packaging here that British baritone Mark Stone is trying to enter crossover territory with this recital of British love songs, but in fact he plays it straight, with nary a pop influence in sight. This is not to say the album wouldn't make a good Valentine gift for the right person. Stone's program has several virtues, not least among them the fact that no one will need the supplied booklet texts; his delivery is natural and perfectly intelligible, animated by the syntax of the poetry. His voice, warm and most attractive in its middle register, is well suited to art song. Best of all is his knack for making songs from various eras hang together within his stated concept: "songs of passion, pain, & pleasure." (There are even a few songs that hint at more metaphysical love.) The range is from Dowland to a song in the style of Roger Quilter by Stone's able accompanist, Stephen Barlow, with a concentration of songs from Britain in the early 20th century and a smaller group from the Baroque; even with a pair of Haydn's English songs in the mix, the music seems to reflect an English mode of expression and a characteristic tendency to draw on high-quality texts; sample Frank Bridge's setting of Matthew Arnold (track 7) or George Butterworth's pair of songs to A.E. Housman, especially the weirdly static With rue my heart is laden (track 13). The album is worthwhile not only as a fine collection of love songs, but perhaps even as an introduction to modern British song; the stylistic contrasts among the various composers emerge clearly when their energies are focused on a single theme. A fine effort; great fun.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 25 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:36
- Main artists: Stephen Barlow
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Stone Records
- Genre: Klassiek
2013 Stone Records 2013 Stone Records
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