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Disc 01
 01. Milhofer, Mark "I wonder as I wander" 02. Milhofer, Mark "The Salley Gardens" 03. Milhofer, Mark "Little Sir William" 04. Milhofer, Mark "The Bonny Earl o' Moray" 05. Milhofer, Mark "O can ye sew cushions?" 06. Milhofer, Mark "The trees they grow so high" 07. Milhofer, Mark "The ash grove" 08. Milhofer, Mark "Oliver Cromwell" 09. Milhofer, Mark "The crocodile" 10. Milhofer, Mark "Greensleeves" 11. Milhofer, Mark "The holly and the ivy" 12. Milhofer, Mark "Le No?l pass?e" 13. Milhofer, Mark "Voici le printemps" 14. Milhofer, Mark "Fileuse" 15. Milhofer, Mark "Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse" 16. Milhofer, Mark "La belle est au jardin d'amour" 17. Milhofer, Mark "Il est quelqu'un sur terre" 18. Milhofer, Mark "Eho! Eho!" 19. Milhofer, Mark "Quand j'etais chez mon p?re" 20. Milhofer, Mark "The plough boy" 21. Milhofer, Mark "There's none to soothe" 22. Milhofer, Mark "Sweet Polly Oliver" 23. Milhofer, Mark "The Miller of Dee" 24. Milhofer, Mark "The foggy, foggy dew" 25. Milhofer, Mark "The stream in the valley"
Disc 02
01. Milhofer, Mark "O Waly, Waly" 02. Milhofer, Mark "Come you not from Newcastle?" 03. Milhofer, Mark "Pray goody" 04. Windsor, Lorna "The deaf woman's courtship" 05. Milhofer, Mark "At the mid hour of night" 06. Milhofer, Mark "Rich and rare" 07. Milhofer, Mark "Dear harp of my country!" 08. Milhofer, Mark "The last rose of Summer" 09. Milhofer, Mark "O the sight entrancing" 10. Milhofer, Mark "Avenging and bright" 11. Milhofer, Mark "Sail on, sail on" 12. Milhofer, Mark "How sweet the answer" 13. Milhofer, Mark "The minstrel boy" 14. Milhofer, Mark "Oft in the stilly night" 15. Windsor, Lorna "Soldier, won't you marry me?" 16. Milhofer, Mark "The brisk young widow" 17. Milhofer, Mark "Sally in our alley" 18. Milhofer, Mark "The Lincolnshire poacher" 19. Milhofer, Mark "Early one morning" 20. Milhofer, Mark "Ca' the yowes" 21. Milhofer, Mark "Tom Bowling" 22. Milhofer, Mark "Dink's song"
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.. Songs For Voice And Piano |
| | Description: | It was during Benjamin Brittenâ??s (1913-1976) stay in the United States in the early 1940s that he began to make his first arrangements of traditional folksongs. It was a way in which the then homesick composer could reconnect with his English roots. They also served well as encores and â??lighterâ? material for his numerous recitals with Peter Pears. So successful and useful did the first collection prove to be that Britten went on to make a further six volumes of arrangements, including French, Scottish and Irish as well as English folksongs, the last (for tenor and harp) dating from the very last year of his life. They became regular features of Britten and Pearsâ?? recital programmes and continue to be widely performed today.
One of the most versatile tenors of his generation, Mark Milhofer is as much at home in the music of Rossini as in the repertoire of Monteverdi, Mozart or Benjamin Britten. He sang at the London Royal Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Opera Stuttgart, Vienna and numerous other famous opera houses. His piano partner is Marco Scolastra, one of Italyâ??s foremost accompanists and chamber music players. - .. SONGS FOR VOICE AND PIANOIt was probably Peter Pears, Britten's partner in music and life, who drew the composer's attention to the rich heritage of English folksong and it's attractions, as a way to introduce texture, variety and a lighter tone to their song recitals together during the 1940s. According to the tenor, Britten 'wanted to recreate these melodies with their texts for concert performance, to make them art-songs... he therefore takes the tune as if he had written it himself and thinks himself back as to how he would turn it into a song.' Thus the piano parts are no mere accompaniments but highly wrought, deftly illustrative comments on the texts and stories of love and country life. In cases such as The Foggy, Foggy Dew and O Waly, Waly, Britten's arrangements have become better known than any 'original' version; they have assumed the identity of the song in the popular imagination, and the distinctive voice of Pears singing them imprinted itself on the imaginations of countless music-lovers in the second half of the last century. However, the songs retain their place in the concert repertoire of many young singers, often as more than encore material, and they admit a rich variety of interpretative approaches. The tenor Mark Milhofer has previously taken part in Brilliant Classics surveys of the complete song output of Alban Berg (95549) and Francesco Tosti (Vol.1 - 95201), with the Berg attracting particularly enthusiastic praise: 'Totally absorbing... convincingly performed from the first note to the last. Each performer brings sincerity and enthusiasm to this varied repertoire. The recording is ideal' (MusicWeb International). | | | Manufacturer No.: |
1096009BRC |
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