Higginson / Auchterlonie / Viale - Scenes & Messages Music CD

Higginson / Auchterlonie / Viale - Scenes & Messages Music CD

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Gary Higginson has spent a life writing music for a wide range of formations, ages and abilities. Much of his work explores two great loves: nature and English literature, especially Shakespeare. Accordingly, this release presents a sequence of songs, instrumental works and a substantial cantata. This is music that is always communicative, characterful and accessible. He was born in West Bromwich which, although then semi-rural, also forms part of the industrial Black Country. His first musical experience, listening to his father's constant singing at home, led him to joining the local church choir at the age of seven, the next year beginning piano lessons with the choirmaster. The constant presence of the church and it's music has been a strong influence on him ever since and led to singing in an early performance of Britten's War Requiem. His first attempt at composition was made when he was eleven and he has not stopped for more than fifty years.

Tracklist:

  1. 2 Pieces, Op. 62: No. 1, Landscape
  2. 2 Pieces, Op. 62: No. 2, Sweet Song Of The Summer Woods
  3. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: I. Entry Into Stanford
  4. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: II. Homes
  5. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: III. Visiting
  6. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: IV. The Railway
  7. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: V. Death At Scutari
  8. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: VI. Death In Stanford
  9. Messages Of Hope, Op. 87: VII. Epilogue
  10. 3 Ben Jonson Songs, Op. 126b: No. 1, Come My Celia
  11. 3 Ben Jonson Songs, Op. 126b: No. 2, Slow, Slow Fresh Fount
  12. 3 Ben Jonson Songs, Op. 126b: No. 3, That Women Are But Men's Shadows
  13. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: I. Bottom's Dream
  14. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: II. Beatrice And Benedict
  15. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: III. Battle Of Bosworth
  16. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: IV. Sir Toby - Sir Andrew
  17. When Most I Wink, Op. 147
  18. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: V. Prince Hal - Falstaff
  19. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: VI. Hamlet Meets Ghost
  20. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: VII. The Statue Awakes
  21. Scenes From Shakespeare, Op. 164: VIII. The Witches' Dance
  22. 3 Shakespeare Duets, Op. 167: No. 1, Blow, Blow
  23. 3 Shakespeare Duets, Op. 167: No. 2, Lawn As White
  24. 3 Shakespeare Duets, Op. 167: No. 3, It Was A Lover
  25. 2 Pieces, Op. 62: No. 2, Sweet Song Of The Summer Woods (Reprise With Birdsong)

UPC: 8033776712091
Label: Sheva Collection
Release Date: 11.2.18
Format: CD

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