Rowan Pierce / Gareth John Brynmor / Ia Farrington -Fearful Symmetry: Songs and Piano Music by John Sy -ALBION / INDIGO CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Piping Down the Valleys Wild

1.2 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Hear the Voice of the Bard

1.3 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Earth's Answer

1.4 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Ecchoing Green

1.5 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Garden of Love

1.6 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Holy Thursday (Innocence)

1.7 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Holy Thursday (Experience)

1.8 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Divine Image

1.9 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Human Abstract

1.10 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Lamb

1.11 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Tyger

1.12 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Infant Joy

1.13 Songs of Innocence and Experience~Infant Sorrow

1.14 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Clod and the Pebble

1.15 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Blossom

1.16 Songs of Innocence and Experience~A Poison Tree

1.17 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Sick Rose

1.18 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Fly

1.19 Songs of Innocence and Experience~On Another's Sorrow

1.20 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Schoolboy

1.21 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Shepherd

1.22 Songs of Innocence and Experience~The Voice of the Ancient Bard

1.23 Piano Duo: Polonaise - Assyrian Festive Dance

1.24 Songs from 'Homage to John Dowland'~Jean With Her Golden Grace

1.25 Songs from 'Homage to John Dowland'~My Mistress Played

1.26 Toccata

1.27 Paean

1.28 Keel Row

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John Sykes (1909-1962) was a pianist, composer and schoolteacher. He gained his FRCO as a schoolboy and became Organ Scholar at Balliol College Oxford. Later, he studied with both Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. He spent most of his career teaching music at Kingswood School, Bath. He left behind a good deal of music, but only a handful of works were published. This recording is of songs, solo piano works and a piano duo. The songs are largely settings from William Blake's Poems of Innocence and Experience, but there are also settings of poems by Sykes's friend and contemporary, Randall Swingler.

Recorded September 4-6, 2019.

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ALBCD040

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