{"product_id":"contrast-various-hybr-contrast-cd","title":"Contrast \/ Various Hybr - Contrast Music CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eSong composition has been a constant in British music since the lute and consort works of the early seventeenth century. By 1900, it had developed into a sophisticated genre embraced by almost all serious composers. The music on this amply-filled disc illustrates the diversity of British song-writing and it's transformation over a century: from Vaughan Williams's Orpheus and his Lute (ca 1901) to Huw Watkins's Five Larkin Songs, composed in 2010 for Carolyn Sampson, who performs them here. Together with Joseph Middleton, her partner on several acclaimed recital discs, she has devised a highly contrasting programme bookended by two groups of songs by William Walton - A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table from 1962, celebrating the diversity of London, and three songs from Façade, the 'entertainment' with which the young composer gained both fame and notoriety in 1923. These frame settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilter and Frank Bridge of poetry by writers from Shakespeare and Shelley to Keats and Yeats. In comparison, the anti-romantic poems by Philip Larkin have been described as marked by 'a very English, glum accuracy'. Huw Watkins (b. 1976) has selected texts from across Larkin's output, catching the various moods - ranging from a certain unsentimental nostalgia to the poet's seemingly habitual pessimism - in settings that often carry a bittersweet sting in the tail.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song For The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table (Version For Soprano \u0026amp;amp; Piano): No. 1, The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song For The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table (Version For Soprano \u0026amp;amp; Piano): No. 2, Glide Gently\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song For The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table (Version For Soprano \u0026amp;amp; Piano): No. 3, Wapping Old Stairs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song For The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table (Version For Soprano \u0026amp;amp; Piano): No. 4, Holy Thursday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song For The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table (Version For Soprano \u0026amp;amp; Piano): No. 5, The Contrast\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Song For The Lord Mayor\u0026amp;#39;s Table (Version For Soprano \u0026amp;amp; Piano): No. 6, Rhyme\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Songs From Shakespeare: No. 3, Orpheus With His Lute\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sky Above The Roof\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe House Of Life: No. 2, Silent Noon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGo Not, Happy Day, H. 34\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen Most I Wink, H. 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdoration, H. 57\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCome To Me In My Dreams, H. 71\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen You Are Old, H. 142\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMantle Of Blue, H. 131\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove Went A-Riding, H. 114\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Larkin Songs: No. 1, Who Called Love Conquering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Larkin Songs: No. 2, Wants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Larkin Songs: No. 3, Love Songs In Age\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Larkin Songs: No. 4, Money\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Larkin Songs: No. 5, Dawn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDream Valley, Op. 20 No. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 7, Fair House Of Joy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 6, By A Fountainside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArab Love Song, Op. 25 No. 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAutumn Evening, Op. 14 No. 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 2, My Life\u0026amp;#39;s Delight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Songs To Poems (After \u0026amp;quot;Fa\u0026amp;ccedil;ade\u0026amp;quot;): No. 1, Daphne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Songs To Poems (After \u0026amp;quot;Fa\u0026amp;ccedil;ade\u0026amp;quot;): No. 2, Through Gilded Trellises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Songs To Poems (After \u0026amp;quot;Fa\u0026amp;ccedil;ade\u0026amp;quot;): No. 3, Old Sir Faulk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7318599924137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.7.20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e CD\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Broadtime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42112394461259,"sku":"175328","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7223\/1499\/files\/3770518-2533372.jpg?v=1770185530","url":"https:\/\/rockbandmerch.com\/products\/contrast-various-hybr-contrast-cd","provider":"Rock Band Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}