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Robin Tritschler & Malcolm Martineau - No Exceptions, No Exemptions: Great War Songs (2014) [Hi-Res]

Robin Tritschler & Malcolm Martineau - No Exceptions, No Exemptions: Great War Songs (2014) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: No Exceptions, No Exemptions: Great War Songs
  • Year Of Release: 2014
  • Label: Signum Records
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:24:12
  • Total Size: 318 mb / 1.29 gb
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Tracklist

01. Le Rhin Allemand, Op. 3, No. 3
02. On the idle hill of summer
03. Trust me, Op. 23, No. 3
04. To Daffodils
05. Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied: Kythere
06. Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied: Pantherlied
07. Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied: Abendfrieden
08. Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied: In Nachtbars Garten
09. Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied: Glück zu Zweien
10. Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied: Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied
11. Elegy
12. Brittany, Op. 21, No. 1
13. L’abandon, Op. 20, No. 1
14. Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy
15. To Gratiana Dancing and Singing
16. Diaphenia
17. Shall I compare thee? Op. 1, No. 1
18. In Prison
19. Angel spirits of sleep
20. All night under the moon
21. O Mistress Mine
22. Come Away, Death
23. Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus de maison, L. 139
24. The ships of Arcady
25. A blackbird singing
26. Light, Op. 19
27. Lettre du Front
28. A child’s prayer, F. 171
29. In Flanders
30. Quand reverrai-je, hélas!
31. En regardant ces belles fleurs
32. In Flanders Fields, S. 277

Robin Tritschler & Malcolm Martineau - No Exceptions, No Exemptions: Great War Songs (2014) [Hi-Res]


The year 2014 brought several recordings marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, each with a different emphasis. This one by tenor Robin Tritschler is unique in that it includes songs from all the major combatants -- Britain, France, and Germany -- plus one each from Russia (a fascinating Prokofiev song here called Trust me, Op. 23/3, and Charles Ives' In Flanders Fields). The result is an unusually varied group of songs, nevertheless solidly linked together by virtue of having been composed either during or just before the war, by composers who either fought in the war itself or had their lives significantly shaped by it. The booklet describes not only each composer, but also each text poet; the texts come from a much wider span of time, but it is interesting indeed to explore the meanings each text had for the composer who set it. There are a few songs, like George Butterworth's On the Idle Hill of Summer, that are included in most compilations of this type, and Tritschler gives clear accounts of them, but probably the main attraction is the number of obscure songs, which have an elusive way of coming alive in this context. Several, like Edgar Bainton, are British composers who were stranded by the war in Germany and placed in an internment camp. The nostalgic tone of several of these is understandable and makes a good counterpoint to the songs in more modern styles. The entire collection justifies its two-disc length and gives the war an immediacy that other releases do not, even though most of the texts do not deal directly with the war at all.


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