The title of this collection of vocal music by Scottish composer Judith Weir refers only to the opening track, a song setting a non-animal-rights-friendly folk text about how to judge a horse for purchase ("four white feet and a white nose/take off his hide and feed him to the crows"). Yet the song gives a good introduction to the artistry shown ...
For fans of Edward Elgar's song cycle Sea Pictures of 1899, here is a whole disc of English songs for voice and orchestra -- plus one splendid addition. Written between 1901 and 1935, the 20 songs included here are by five different composers. There are four by Bax, seven by Ireland, five by Dyson, three by Boughton, and two by Bainton, and the ...
Clarinetist Michael Collins' name is virtually synonymous with performances at Wigmore Hall, so this live performance at the famed London concert venue is natural. Although the literature chosen for this album demonstrates Collins' penchant for chamber music collaboration, he is most certainly the star of the two works, and rightfully so. The ...
This CD, with Martyn Brabbins leading the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra, gathers five of Judith Weir's most important orchestral works written between 1991 and 2002. The most recent piece is The Welcome Arrival of Rain, for large orchestra, which she wrote as a reflection on the annual monsoons of the Indian subcontinent. Her harmonic ...
EMI's 2009 recording of Messiah with the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, led by Stephen Cleobury, marks three anniversaries: the 250th anniversary of Handel's death, the founding of the University of Cambridge 800 years ago, and the death 80 years ago of Arthur Henry Mann. The last two are significant because Mann, as early as 1894, had led ...
This recording was sponsored by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust, and one can readily understand why. Whether it's Erik Chisholm's Symphony No. 2, Trevor Hold's The Unreturning Spring, or Eric Fogg's Sea-Sheen or Merok (named after a town on a fjord in Norway), the music here is beautiful, unrelentingly conservative, and very English, just like ...
Hubert Hughes (1882-1937), born in Belfast, was a composer, journalist, and song collector. The subtitle "Irish Songs by Herbert Hughes" is ambivalent, and intentionally so -- the music heard on this disc has remained obscure in comparison with other British collections of Irish song probably because what Hughes did with his Irish source material ...
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