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Finzi / Holst / Williams - Sirens' Song [CD]

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Description

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.

Tracklist:

  1. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~The Witch
  2. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~Farewell, my joy
  3. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~The Blue Bird
  4. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~The Train
  5. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~The Inkbottle
  6. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~The Swallow
  7. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~Chillingham
  8. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119~My heart in thine
  9. Sirens' Song
  10. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow~Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
  11. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow~Teignmouth
  12. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow~Over the Hill and over the Dale
  13. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow~O Sorrow
  14. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow~Lullaby
  15. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow~Shed no Tear
  16. Silence and Music
  17. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~I praise the tender flower
  18. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~I have loved flowers that fade
  19. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~My spirit sang all day
  20. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~Clear and gentle stream
  21. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~Nightingales
  22. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~Haste on, my joys!
  23. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges~Wherefore to-night so full of care
  24. Long Day Closes

UPC: 828021619823
Label: Coro
Release Date: 9.1.23
Format: CD