Parry / Fox / West - 12 Sets of English Lyrics 3 Music CD
Parry / Fox / West - 12 Sets of English Lyrics 3 Music CD
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SOMM Recordings' historic, enthusiastically reviewed survey of Sir Hubert Parry's 12 Sets of English Lyrics reaches it's end with a third revelatory volume. Volume III features pianist Andrew West and baritone Roderick Williams (both heard on Volumes I and II) and the return of soprano Sarah Fox (who appeared on Volume II). Composed between 1874 and shortly before Parry's death in 1918, the English Lyrics come from a time of immense change as old certainties gave way to new complexity and a global war that would utterly change Britain's standing in the world. Parry's riposte was the English Lyrics: a defiant assertion that English poetry was the equal of Germany's Lied and French mélodies and arguably created the template for the development of the emerging English art-song. The texts of many of the 25 songs - including some of his finest - on this recording carry deeply personal meanings for Parry, his response to them as varied as mood dictates and all realized with consummate insight and craftsmanship. Settings of AP Graves, Julia Chatterton and Julian Sturgis are to the fore, although lyrics by Herbert Warner and the American poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Langdon Elwyn Mitchell are also to be heard in a spell- binding conclusion to an acclaimed series. Parry's only setting of Christina Rossetti, 'My heart is like a singing bird,' is delightfully effusive, 'When the Sun's Great Orb,' Wagner-like in it's imagining of the end of days, 'The child and the twilight' vividly full of night-time fears. Reviewing Volume I, BBC Music Magazine praised the "many pleasurable moments in this richly enjoyable album" with Classical Ear summing it up as being "In a word: blissful". Of Volume II, Robert Hugill applauded "this enterprising and illuminating survey", while MusicWeb International said: "Lovers of English songs, and Parry in particular, should be in their element with this satisfying album on Somm".
Tracklist:
- English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1, My Heart Is Like A Singing Bird
- English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 4, The Blackbird
- English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 6, If I Might Ride On Puissant Wing
- English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 3, A Moment Of Farewell
- English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 7, The Sound Of Hidden Music
- English Lyrics, Set 3: No. 5, Through The Ivory Gate
- English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 2, Nightfall In Winter
- English Lyrics, Set 7: No. 6, Sleep
- English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 1, When The Dew Is Falling
- English Lyrics, Set 4: No. 1, Thine Eyes Still Shined For Me
- English Lyrics, Set 4: No. 2, When Lovers Meet Again
- English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 4, A Lover's Garland
- English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 5, The Faithful Lover
- English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 1, A Stray Nymph Of Dian
- English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 6, A Girl To Her Glass
- English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 4, When The Sun's Great Orb
- English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 1, One Golden Thread
- English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 1, Whence
- English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 5, At The Hour The Long Day Ends
- English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 5, Looking Backward
- English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 8, She Is My Love Beyond All Thought
- English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 5, From A City Window
- English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 3, The Spirit Of The Spring
- English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 4, The Child And The Twilight
- English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 6, Grapes
UPC: 748871227224
Label: Somm Recordings
Release Date: 11.16.18
Format: CD
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