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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. 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. © SOMM Recordings
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A Vigil of Pentecost, H. 123 (Gustav Holst)
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
The Ballad of Hunting Knowe, H. 147 (Gustav Holst)
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
12 Humbert Wolfe Songs, Op. 48, H. 174 (Excerpts) (Gustav Holst)
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Gustav Holst, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
June Twilight (Rebecca Clarke)
Rebecca Clarke, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
The Seal Man (Rebecca Clarke)
Rebecca Clarke, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
A Dream (Rebecca Clarke)
Rebecca Clarke, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Eight O'Clock (Rebecca Clarke)
Rebecca Clarke, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Down by the Salley Gardens (Ivor Gurney)
Ivor Gurney, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Snow (Ivor Gurney)
Ivor Gurney, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Lights out (Ivor Gurney)
Ivor Gurney, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
5 Elizabethan Songs (Ivor Gurney)
Ivor Gurney, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
3 Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, H. 164 (Version for Voice & Piano) (Frank Bridge)
Frank Bridge, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Frank Bridge, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Frank Bridge, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Journey's End, H. 167 (Frank Bridge)
Frank Bridge, Composer - James Gilchrist, Artist, MainArtist - Nathan Williamson, Artist
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
Albumbeschreibung
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. 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. © SOMM Recordings
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:28
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: James Gilchrist Nathan Williamson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: SOMM Recordings
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2020 SOMM Recordings (P) 2020 SOMM Recordings
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