James Gilchrist / Nathan Williamson -Vol.3 One Hundred Years of British Song -SOMM CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Let the florid music praise"
4 Lieder nach Gedichten von W. H. Auden

02. "Nr. 1 Look, stranger"

03. "Nr. 2 Eyes look into the well"

04. "Nr. 3 Carry her over the water"

05. "Nr. 4 What's in your mind?"
5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Betjeman

06. "Nr. 1 A bay in Anglesey"

07. "Nr. 2 Song of a nightclub proprietess"

08. "Nr. 3 Business girls"

09. "Nr. 4 Undenominational"

10. "Nr. 5 Upper Lambourne"
The little that was once a man

11. "In someone else's poem"

12. "4 a.m."

13. "Not being...: 1. The ordinary way"

14. "Not being...: 2. Misunderstanding"

15. "Moon at rest"
The unlit suburbs

16. "Nr. 1 The submerged bar"

17. "Nr. 2 Rat town"

18. "Nr. 3 The ghost choir"

19. "Intermezzo"
The eye of the blackbird

20. "Nr. 1 Twenty snowy mountains"

21. "Nr. 2 The Autumn wind"

22. "Nr. 3 I was of three minds"

23. "Nr. 4 Which to prefer"

24. "Nr. 5 Icicles"

25. "Nr. 6 I know noble accents"

26. "Nr. 7 Out of sight"

27. "Nr. 8 He rode over Connecticut"

28. "Nr. 9 Evening all afternoon"

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Description:

SOMM Recordings announces the third and final volume of the enthusiastically received One Hundred Years of British Song, with tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Nathan Williamson. Focusing on songs written since 1950, Volume 3 celebrates what Williamson's booklet note describes as "astonishment at the depth of expressivity of the poetry and music". Receiving first recordings are John Woolrich's settings of Irish poet Matthew Sweeney, The Unlit Suburbs, a deadpan yet evocative exercise in "alternative realism", and Geoffrey Poole's stylistically wide-ranging The Eye of the Blackbird, with texts from Virginia Woolf, traditional Nigerian poems, Wallace Stevens, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Requiem Mass. Also on album for the first time are Williamson's own song-cycle setting poems by Bryan Heiser composed especially for James Gilchrist, The Little That Was Once a Man, and solo-piano miniature, Intermezzo. Peter Dickinson's early, accomplished Four W.H. Auden Songs and dramatic and intense yet positive and joyful Let the Florid Music Praise, and Madeleine Dring's characterful Five Betjeman Songs, the product of a "fascinating and multi-faceted artistic personality", complete the release.

Recorded between 25-27 October 2020.

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SOMMCD0646

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