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Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan - Stanford: Children's Songs (2022) [Hi-Res]

Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan - Stanford: Children's Songs (2022) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Stanford: Children's Songs
  • Year Of Release: 2022
  • Label: SOMM Recordings
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:18:22
  • Total Size: 378 mb / 1.3 gb
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Tracklist

01. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 1, Bed in Summer
02. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 2, Pirate Story
03. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 3, Foreign Lands
04. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 4, Windy Nights
05. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 5, Where Go the Boats?
06. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 6, My Shadow
07. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 7, Marching Song
08. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 8, Foreign Children
09. A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 9, My Ship and Me
10. 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 1, Spring
11. 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 2, The Silence
12. 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 3, The City Child
13. 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 4, The Vision
14. 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 1, A Song of the Bow
15. 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 2, Drop Me a Flower
16. 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 3, The Winds of Bethlehem
17. 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 4, The Monkey's Carol
18. 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 5, Lullaby
19. 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 6, The Unknown Sea
20. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1: No. 1, Two Little Stars
21. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1: No. 2, The Pedlar
22. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1: No. 3, Little Snowdrop
23. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1: No. 4, The Piper of the Spring
24. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1: No. 5, Speedwell
25. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1: No. 6, The Dream Ship
26. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2: No. 1, Summer
27. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2: No. 2, What Do You See?
28. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2: No. 3, The Piper
29. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2: No. 4, The Secret Place
30. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2: No. 5, Night
31. Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2: No. 6, The Dust-Man
32. Witches' Charms
33. Summer's Rain and Winter's Snow
34. Fairy Lures
35. The Hoofs of the Horses
36. A Japanese Lullaby
37. Worship
38. The King's Highway

SOMM Recordings continues its widely acclaimed championing of the music of Charles Villiers Stanford with a captivating collection of his Children’s Songs by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and baritone Gareth Brynmor John, accompanied by pianist Susie Allan.

Including numerous first recordings and the first complete CD release of his setting of 14-year-old Helen Douglas Adam’s enchanting Songs from the Elfin Pedlar, it throws revealing new light on an important but largely overlooked aspect of Stanford’s output.

Stanford, as his biographer and British music authority Jeremy Dibble comments in his authoritative notes, “was very much alive to the importance of children’s participation in music” following the transformative introduction of signing to the school curriculum in 1870. This delightful compendium of songs intended for children reveals the composer to be as acutely sensitive to his eclectic choice of texts as to his intended audience.

It features premiere recordings of the early, Robert Louis Stevenson-set A Child’s Garland of Songs (Op.30), the mid-period Four Songs (Op.112) and later Six Songs (Op.175), together with seven other standalone songs, including the simple pastoral message of Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow and delightfully capricious Fairy Lures.

SOMM’s previous Stanford recordings include his String Quintets (SOMMCD 0623) and complete String Quartets (SOMMCD 0160, 0185, 0607) with the Dante Quartet, praised by Gramophone for their “ardent, alert and thoroughly lived-in performances”, and Partsongs with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir led by Paul Spicer (SOMMCD 0128), which Limelight described as “excellent… beautifully sung”.

SOMM’s world-premiere recording of The Travelling Companion (SOMMCD 274-2) was hailed “a landmark” by Gramophone, who lauded Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense (SOMMCD 0627) as “a hugely enjoyable anthology… production values and presentation leave nothing to be desired”.




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