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Tame Cat & Other Songs / Various - Tame Cat & Other Songs Music CD

Tame Cat & Other Songs / Various - Tame Cat & Other Songs Music CD

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Most of the songs on this record were composed in the first half of the 20th century, not a few between the two wars. This has been an era surprisingly neglected by singers, yet many English composers produced some of their best vocal works during this period. Recently the combination of voice, clarinet and piano has proved more and more popular with composers, but it would appear that with Holbrooke's Tame Cat, he must be counted amongst the first of English composers to write for this medium. Tame Cat is a setting by Joseph Holbrooke to words by Ezra Pound. This remarkable song, composed in 1923 is the fifth of his 'Six Socialist Songs' a set fully redolent of the times. It is paired with works by Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss, Alan Bush, Benjamin Britten, and more.

Tracklist:

  1. Songs (12) for voice ; piano, Op. 48, H. 174~A Little Music
  2. Don Juan de Manara~The Fan Song
  3. Two Nursery Rhymes~The Ragwort
  4. Two Nursery Rhymes~The Dandelion
  5. In Dark Weather
  6. Avant que tu ne t'en ailles
  7. Berceuse
  8. Three Songs of Innocence~Piping Down the Valleys Wild
  9. Three Songs of Innocence~The Shepherd
  10. Three Songs of Innocence~The Ecchoing Green
  11. Six Socialist Songs~Tame Cat
  12. Fish in the Unruffled Lakes
  13. Woman's Life~Weaving Song
  14. Three Songs~Of All the Birds That I Do Know
  15. Three Songs~Flow My Tears
  16. Three Songs~Ho, Who Comes Here?
  17. Four Shakespeare Songs~Take, Oh Take Those Lips Away
  18. Flood
  19. Three Folk Songs~Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
  20. Three Folk Songs~Hush-a-ba, Birdie, Croon, Croon
  21. Three Folk Songs~John Peel

UPC: 5020926912824
Label: Cameo Classics
Release Date: 1.8.21
Format: CD

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