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Sarah Fox, Roderick Williams & Andrew West - Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 3 (2018) [Hi-Res]

Sarah Fox, Roderick Williams & Andrew West - Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 3 (2018) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 3
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: SOMM Recordings
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless +booklet
  • Total Time: 00:58:47
  • Total Size: 220 mb
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Tracklist
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01. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1, My Heart Is like a Singing Bird
02. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 4, The Blackbird
03. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 6, If I Might Ride on Puissant Wing
04. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 3, A Moment of Farewell
05. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 7, The Sound of Hidden Music
06. English Lyrics, Set 3: No. 5, Through the Ivory Gate
07. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 2, Nightfall in Winter
08. English Lyrics, Set 7: No. 6, Sleep
09. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 1, When the Dew Is Falling
10. English Lyrics, Set 4: No. 1, Thine Eyes Still Shined for Me
11. English Lyrics, Set 4: No. 2, When Lovers Meet Again
12. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 4, A Lover's Garland
13. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 5, The Faithful Lover
14. English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 1, A Stray Nymph of Dian
15. English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 6, A Girl to Her Glass
16. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 4, When the Sun's Great Orb
17. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 1, One Golden Thread
18. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 1, Whence
19. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 5, At the Hour the Long Day Ends
20. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 5, Looking Backward
21. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 8, She Is My Love Beyond All Thought
22. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 5, From a City Window
23. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 3, The Spirit of the Spring
24. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 4, The Child and the Twilight
25. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 6, Grapes

SOMM Recordings’ historic, enthusiastically reviewed survey of Sir Hubert Parry’s 12 Sets of English Lyrics reaches its end with a third revelatory volume.

Volume III features pianist Andrew West and baritone Roderick Williams (both heard on Volumes I and II) and the return of soprano Sarah Fox (who appeared on Volume II).

Composed between 1874 and shortly before Parry’s death in 1918, the English Lyrics come from a time of immense change as old certainties gave way to new complexity and a global war that would utterly change Britain’s standing in the world. Parry’s riposte was the English Lyrics: a defiant assertion that English poetry was the equal of Germany’s Lied and French mélodies and arguably created the template for the development of the emerging English art-song.

The texts of many of the 25 songs – including some of his finest – on this recording carry deeply personal meanings for Parry, his response to them as varied as mood dictates and all realised with consummate insight and craftsmanship.

Settings of AP Graves, Julia Chatterton and Julian Sturgis are to the fore, although lyrics by Herbert Warner and the American poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Langdon Elwyn Mitchell are also to be heard in a spell- binding conclusion to an acclaimed series.

Parry’s only setting of Christina Rossetti, My heart is like a singing bird, is delightfully effusive, When the Sun’s Great Orb Wagner-like in its imagining of the end of days, The child and the twilight vividly full of night-time fears.

Reviewing Volume I, BBC Music Magazine praised the “many pleasurable moments in this richly enjoyable CD” with Classical Ear summing it up as being “In a word: blissful”. Of Volume II, Robert Hugill applauded “this enterprising and illuminating survey”, while MusicWeb International said: “Lovers of English songs, and Parry in particular, should be in their element with this satisfying album on Somm”.



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  • hollinsuk
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Many thanks for sharing.

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