Bliss / Schwarz / Wigmore Ensemble / BBC SO / + -The Beatitudes / The Enchantress / + -Lyrita CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. Vyvyan, Jennifer "Madam Noy (Ein Hexenlied für Sopran und Ensemble)"

02. Vyvyan, Jennifer "Rout (für Sopran und Kammerensemble)"

03. BBC Symphony Orchestra "The enchantress (Szene für Alt und Orchester)"
The beatitudes (Kantate)

04. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Prelude: A troubled world"

05. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Mount of olives"

06. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Blessed are the poor in spirit"

07. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Easter"

08. Bliss, Sir Arthur "I got me flowers to strew thy way"

09. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Blessed are the meek"

10. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Isaiah 2: 17-19"

11. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Blessed are those who hunger"

12. Bliss, Sir Arthur "The call"

13. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Interlude"

14. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Blessed are the merciful"

15. Bliss, Sir Arthur "And death shall have no dominion"

16. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you"

17. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Voices of the mob"

18. Bliss, Sir Arthur "Epilogue: O blessed Jesu"

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Following demobilization from the army in 1919, Bliss wrote four exploratory essays in sonority and textures, including Madam Noy and Rout. They accorded him a short-lived reputation as an enfant terrible, but they can also be said to have paved the way for his first large-scale orchestral work, the Color Symphony. The "witchery song" Madam Noy (1918) is a bizarre variation on the old nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard." Rout is used in the old sense of popular revelry, and is a vibrant score evoking the snatches of song that might be caught by someone watching a carnival. For the rarely encountered scena for contralto and orchestra, The Enchantress, the text was supplied by Bliss's poet friend Henry Reed. And finally, Bliss was Master of the Queen's Musick when he was commissioned to write The Beatitudes for the Festival of 1962 to mark the opening of the new Coventry Cathedral.

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REAM1115

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