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This is an album of new music with very old words - a concept album with a difference: a personal vision of a world just out of reach. Its music and its stories, its seasons and its creatures are addressed or conjured up in hymns, spells, and that most Anglo-Saxon of poetic forms – the riddle. Conner’s settings draw on English folksong, medieval music scholarship and a range of unlikelier inspirations to make something entirely her own. In around half the tracks she duets with early-music specialist Hanna Marti, both of them thrillingly poised between creation and rediscovery. In between come impressive choral set-pieces, while elsewhere Conner is alone, accompanying herself on a strummed lyre.
At the album’s heart is an intimate communion with our ideas of the past, of distance and of nearness, of knowledge and enduring mystery. No songs in Old English have survived from the period in which the language was originally used. And yet what does survive of Anglo-Saxon culture – preserved in written texts or unearthed by archaeologists – presents a compelling, if tantalizingly incomplete, picture of a society in which the creative impulse was central. For singer and composer Stef Conner, this incompleteness is a challenge … to feats of imaginative daring which are also acts of informed historical sympathy. © Delphian
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Christopher O’Gorman, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Jamie Wright, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Everlasting Voices, MainArtist - Graham Bier, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
(C) 2020 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2020 Delphian Records LTD
Stef Conner, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, Composer, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Hanna Marti, Composer, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Lisa Coates, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
(C) 2020 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2020 Delphian Records LTD
Stef Conner, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher - St Godric of Finchale, Composer - St Godric of Finchale, (arr. Hanna Marti, Stef Conner), Composer
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Susannah Austin, MainArtist - Everlasting Voices, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Toby Ward, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Lisa Coates, MainArtist - Louis Marlowe, MainArtist - Robin Bier, MainArtist - Everlasting Voices, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Elspeth Piggott, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Peyee Chen, MainArtist - Ana Beard Fernández, MainArtist - Everlasting Voices, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Anonymous, Composer - Stef Conner, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher - (anon., arr. Hanna Marti, Stef Conner), Composer
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
(C) 2020 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2020 Delphian Records LTD
Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Louis Marlowe, MainArtist - Robin Bier, MainArtist - Graham Bier, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
(C) 2020 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2020 Delphian Records LTD
Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, Composer, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher - Stef Conner, Hanna Marti, Composer
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Stef Conner, Composer - Elspeth Piggott, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Robin Bier, MainArtist - Ana Beard Fernández, MainArtist - Everlasting Voices, MainArtist - Nils Greenhow, MainArtist - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
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Stef Conner, Composer, MainArtist - Hanna Marti, MainArtist - Paul Baxter, Producer - Delphian Records Ltd., MusicPublisher
(C) 2020 Delphian Records LTD (P) 2020 Delphian Records LTD
Album review
This is an album of new music with very old words - a concept album with a difference: a personal vision of a world just out of reach. Its music and its stories, its seasons and its creatures are addressed or conjured up in hymns, spells, and that most Anglo-Saxon of poetic forms – the riddle. Conner’s settings draw on English folksong, medieval music scholarship and a range of unlikelier inspirations to make something entirely her own. In around half the tracks she duets with early-music specialist Hanna Marti, both of them thrillingly poised between creation and rediscovery. In between come impressive choral set-pieces, while elsewhere Conner is alone, accompanying herself on a strummed lyre.
At the album’s heart is an intimate communion with our ideas of the past, of distance and of nearness, of knowledge and enduring mystery. No songs in Old English have survived from the period in which the language was originally used. And yet what does survive of Anglo-Saxon culture – preserved in written texts or unearthed by archaeologists – presents a compelling, if tantalizingly incomplete, picture of a society in which the creative impulse was central. For singer and composer Stef Conner, this incompleteness is a challenge … to feats of imaginative daring which are also acts of informed historical sympathy. © Delphian
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:02:25
- Main artists: Stef Conner Hanna Marti Everlasting Voices
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Delphian Records
- Genre: Classical
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