Eight Partsongs, Op. 119 01. "The Witch" 02. "Farewell, my joy" 03. "The Blue Bird" 04. "The Train" 05. "The Inkbottle" 06. "The Swallow" 07. "Chillingham" 08. "My heart in thine" 09. "Sirens' Song" Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow 10. "Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow" 11. "Teignmouth" 12. "Over the Hill and over the Dale" 13. "O Sorrow" 14. "Lullaby" 15. "Shed no Tear" 16. "Silence and Music" Seven Poems of Robert Bridges 17. "I praise the tender flower" 18. "I have lover flowers that fade" 19. "My spirit sang all day" 20. "Clear and gentle stream" 21. "Nightingales" 22. "Haste on, my joys!" 23. "Wherefore to-night so full of care" 24. "The Long Day Closes"
Number of discs:
1
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Harry Christophers
Description:
Sirens' Song by Sixteen, released 1 September 2023.
This version of Sirens' Song comes as a 1xCD. - HARRY CHRISTOPHERS
What would singing be without words? When you combine wonderful poetry with exquisite music, the result is magical. In a rare break from the sacred collections they are famed for, this album from The Sixteen features a whole programme of secular music devoted to English partsongs. From Stanford's cycle of Eight Partsongs based on the sparing yet infectious poetry of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to Bridges' lyrically descriptive writing in Finzi's Seven Poems of Robert Bridges and Imogen Holst's six idyllic partsongs Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow using verses by John Keats, each setting captures the mood of the poem brilliantly.