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Andrew Swait, James Bowman, Andrew Plant - Songs of Innocence (2008)

Andrew Swait, James Bowman, Andrew Plant - Songs of Innocence (2008)
  • Title: Songs of Innocence
  • Year Of Release: 2008
  • Label: Signum
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:01:46
  • Total Size: 184 MB
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Tracklist:

John Jacob Niles, arr. Benjamin Britten
01. I Wonder As I Wander - [04:10]
02. Negro Spiritual
02. In The Mornin' - [02:12]
03. Benjamin Britten
03. Diaphenia - [01:56]
04. The Owl - [01:27]
05. Witches' Song - [00:43]
06. Chamber Music V - [01:24]
07. The Rainbow - [02:21]
08. The Oxen - [02:44]
09. Trad. arr. Benjamin Britten
09. Little Sire William - [02:54]
10. Michael Berkeley
10. Cradle Song - [01:42]
11. Peter Warlock
11. The Bayly Berith The Bell Away - [02:33]
12. William Boyce, arr. Elizabeth Poston
12. Tell Me, Lovely Shepherd - [03:09]
13. Flanders & Swann, arr. Andrew Plant
13. The Slow Train - [03:49]
14. Trad., arr. Benjamin Britten
14. Ca' The Yowes - [03:38]
15. George Frideric Handel, arr. Maurice Jacobson
15. Silent Worship - [01:49]
16. Charles Wood
16. Who Is Silva? - [01:45]
17. Trad. arr. Andrew Plant
17. Caleno Custre Me - [02:11]
18. Ralph Vaughan Williams
18. Dirge For Fidele - [03:35]
19. Roger Quilter
19. Summer Sunset - [01:57]
20. Charles Ives
20. Slow March - [01:38]
21. Charles Dibdin
21. Tom Bowling - [04:54]
22. John Jeffries
22. Matthew, Mark, Luke And John - [01:16]
23. Malcolm Williamson
23. My Bed Is A Boat - [03:02]
24. Samuel Barber
24. Sure On This Shining Night - [02:27]
25. Malcolm Williamson
25. Sweet And Low - [02:30]

The voice of experience meets the voice of youth in this album contrasting the voices of Bowman, a countertenor, and Swait, a boy chorister.
Swait's voice is clear, bright and tuned with innate precision, ringing with carefree but studious childhood. Appealingly, he focuses on the mechanics of his singing, maintaining a childish ignorance of the full tragedy of Britten's Little Sir William. Bowman is the uncle, worldly and artistic, duetting with restraint and phrasing with a characteristic elegance and expressivity that Swait duly and sensibly mimics.
The pianist Andrew Plant accompanies with sensitivity --Rick Jones, The Times, July 12, 2008



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