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Somm Recordings is delighted to present a revelatory collection of orchestral songs by Sir Edward Elgar (on double slimline selling as a single disc), performed by two of today’s most exciting young singers – mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and baritone Henk Neven – accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
Historically the least regarded part of Elgar’s output, his songs contain a treasure-trove of vocal gems and here receive performances of insight, imagination and emotional directness. The Op. 59 Song Cycle is an exemplary case in point, by turns quietly radiant, touchingly nostalgic and achingly melancholic. Two settings of poems by Elgar’s wife – the richly orchestrated The Wind at Dawn and celebratory The King’s Way (which borrows a tune from his Fourth Pomp and Circumstance March) – show Elgar at his most evocative and ebullient.
Sombre and powerful, The Pipes of Pan boasts colourful imagery and driving rhythmic energy, The River and The Torch wholly Elgarian in their wonderful sonorities. A first recording of the orchestral version of the marching song Follow the Colours shows Elgar at his most patriotic.
The complete incidental music for a 1901 staging of WB Yeats’ Grania and Diarmid offers a rare opportunity to experience the full gamut of Elgar’s moving and dramatic evocation of a timeless tale of love in the ancient Irish myth.
A bonus disc of recordings made under the auspices of the Elgar Society showcases soprano Nathalie de Montmollin and pianist Barry Collett in a collection of piano-accompanied songs. It includes first recordings of the piano version of ‘Winter’ from The Mill Wheel (with its churning left-hand patterns and a text by the composer’s wife) and the world-weary tread of Muleteer’s Serenade, setting words from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.© Somm Recordings
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Song Cycle, Op. 59 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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2 Songs, Op. 60 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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Pleading, op. 48 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Follow the Colours (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
The King's Way (version for voice and orchestra) (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Grania & Diarmid, op. 42 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
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Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
DISC 2
Like to the Damask Rose (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
3 Songs, Op. 16 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Dry those fair, those crystal eyes (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
The Millwheel (Winter) (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Muleteers' Song (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
As I laye a-thynkynge (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Queen Mary's Song (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
2 Songs, Op. 60 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
2 Songs, Op. 41 (Edward Elgar)
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Nathalie de Montmollin, Soprano - Barry Collett, Piano - Edward Elgar, Composer
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
Album review
Somm Recordings is delighted to present a revelatory collection of orchestral songs by Sir Edward Elgar (on double slimline selling as a single disc), performed by two of today’s most exciting young singers – mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and baritone Henk Neven – accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
Historically the least regarded part of Elgar’s output, his songs contain a treasure-trove of vocal gems and here receive performances of insight, imagination and emotional directness. The Op. 59 Song Cycle is an exemplary case in point, by turns quietly radiant, touchingly nostalgic and achingly melancholic. Two settings of poems by Elgar’s wife – the richly orchestrated The Wind at Dawn and celebratory The King’s Way (which borrows a tune from his Fourth Pomp and Circumstance March) – show Elgar at his most evocative and ebullient.
Sombre and powerful, The Pipes of Pan boasts colourful imagery and driving rhythmic energy, The River and The Torch wholly Elgarian in their wonderful sonorities. A first recording of the orchestral version of the marching song Follow the Colours shows Elgar at his most patriotic.
The complete incidental music for a 1901 staging of WB Yeats’ Grania and Diarmid offers a rare opportunity to experience the full gamut of Elgar’s moving and dramatic evocation of a timeless tale of love in the ancient Irish myth.
A bonus disc of recordings made under the auspices of the Elgar Society showcases soprano Nathalie de Montmollin and pianist Barry Collett in a collection of piano-accompanied songs. It includes first recordings of the piano version of ‘Winter’ from The Mill Wheel (with its churning left-hand patterns and a text by the composer’s wife) and the world-weary tread of Muleteer’s Serenade, setting words from Cervantes’ Don Quixote.© Somm Recordings
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:30:10
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Henk Neven Barry Collett Nathalie de Montmollin The BBC Concert Orchestra Barry Wordsworth Kathryn Rudge
- Composer: Edward Elgar
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Area: Angleterre
- Genre: Classical Secular Vocal Music
- Period: Post-romantic Music
(C) 2018 SOMM Recordings (P) 2018 SOMM Recordings
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