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For the Power of Love: An English Songbook, pianist Graham Johnson and mezzo-soprano Alice Coote have selected music spanning almost half a century, from the early 1880s to the late 1920s. The music, which is presently essentially chronologically, ranges from the popular Victorian parlor song Love's Old Sweet Song to the unsentimental coolness of Holst's "Journey's End," and the spooky, chilling nihilism of the composer's "Betelgeuse." The rest of the songs fall stylistically in between these extremes, using the gentle language of late Romantic and post-Romantic lyricism that characterized English music of the period. In their artfully and intelligently arranged program, Coote and Johnson have wisely passed over the most familiar songs of the era to concentrate primarily on lesser known composers like Maude Valérie White, Liza Lehmann, Graham Peel, Roger Quilter, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, E.J. Moeran, and Ivor Gurney. It's a lovely selection that brings to light some real jewels like Lehmann's Ah, moon of my delight and Pa's bank, Gibbs' The Song of Shadows, Warlock's Queen Anne, and Gurney's Lights Out. Coote's voice is generously open and warm, and she can float it with ease and grace. She is capable of nail-spitting dramatic fire in some of her operatic roles, but this repertoire draws out an earnest tenderness that beautifully suits these songs. Graham Johnson's impeccable musicianship and sensitivity is abundantly evident in his fluid, nuanced accompaniments. Hyperion's sound is well balanced, clean, and realistically present.
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Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - James Lynam Molloy, Composer - G Clifton Bingham, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maude Valerie White, Composer - Lord George Gordon, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maude Valerie White, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Maude Valerie White, Composer - Walter Herries Pollock, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Edward Elgar, Composer - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Christopher Benson, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Edward Elgar, Composer - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Leslie Salmon, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Liza Lehmann, Composer - Edward Fitzgerald, Translator - Hakim Omar Khayyam, Author, Original Text Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Robert Browning, Author - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Liza Lehmann, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Author - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Graham Peel, Composer - Herbert Trench, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Hilaire Belloc, Author - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Graham Peel, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Quilter, Composer - Lord George Gordon, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Quilter, Composer - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Author - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Roger Quilter, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Anonymous, Author - Percy Grainger, Composer - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Composer - Charles Lamb, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Liza Lehmann, Composer - Edward Verrall Lucas, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Walter de la Mare, Author - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
William Shakespeare , Author - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Warlock, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Hilaire Belloc, Author - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Warlock, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Anonymous, Author - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Warlock, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ernest John Moeran, Composer - Robert Wever, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Doyle, Author - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivor Gurney, Composer - Robert Graves, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivor Gurney, Composer - John Davidson, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Edward Thomas, Author - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivor Gurney, Composer
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Gustav Holst, Composer - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Humbert Wolfe, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Gustav Holst, Composer - Graham Johnson, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alice Coote, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Humbert Wolfe, Author
℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
Album review
For the Power of Love: An English Songbook, pianist Graham Johnson and mezzo-soprano Alice Coote have selected music spanning almost half a century, from the early 1880s to the late 1920s. The music, which is presently essentially chronologically, ranges from the popular Victorian parlor song Love's Old Sweet Song to the unsentimental coolness of Holst's "Journey's End," and the spooky, chilling nihilism of the composer's "Betelgeuse." The rest of the songs fall stylistically in between these extremes, using the gentle language of late Romantic and post-Romantic lyricism that characterized English music of the period. In their artfully and intelligently arranged program, Coote and Johnson have wisely passed over the most familiar songs of the era to concentrate primarily on lesser known composers like Maude Valérie White, Liza Lehmann, Graham Peel, Roger Quilter, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, E.J. Moeran, and Ivor Gurney. It's a lovely selection that brings to light some real jewels like Lehmann's Ah, moon of my delight and Pa's bank, Gibbs' The Song of Shadows, Warlock's Queen Anne, and Gurney's Lights Out. Coote's voice is generously open and warm, and she can float it with ease and grace. She is capable of nail-spitting dramatic fire in some of her operatic roles, but this repertoire draws out an earnest tenderness that beautifully suits these songs. Graham Johnson's impeccable musicianship and sensitivity is abundantly evident in his fluid, nuanced accompaniments. Hyperion's sound is well balanced, clean, and realistically present.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:04
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Alice Coote Graham Johnson
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Hyperion
- Genre: Classical
© 2012 Hyperion Records Limited ℗ 2012 Hyperion Records Limited
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