Alessandro Fisher, William Vann, Navarra Quartet - Venables and Vaughan Williams: Portraits of a Mind; On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns (2023)
BAND/ARTIST: Alessandro Fisher, William Vann, Navarra Quartet
- Title: Venables and Vaughan Williams: Portraits of a Mind; On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Albion
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:59:00
- Total Size: 248 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. On Wenlock Edge: I. On Wenlock Edge
02. On Wenlock Edge: II. From Far, From Eve and Morning
03. On Wenlock Edge: III. Is My Team Ploughing?
04. On Wenlock Edge: IV. Oh, When I Was in Love With You
05. On Wenlock Edge: V. Bredon Hill
06. On Wenlock Edge: VI. Clun
07. Portraits of a Mind: I. The Lark Ascending
08. Portraits of a Mind: II. Man Makes Delight His Own
09. Portraits of a Mind: III. From a Railway Carriage
10. Portraits of a Mind: IV. Echo
11. Portraits of a Mind: V. A Clear Midnight
12. Four Hymns: I. Lord! Come Away
13. Four Hymns: II. Who is This Fair One?
14. Four Hymns: III. Come Love, Come Lord
15. Four Hymns: IV. Evening Hymn (O Gladsome Light)
2022 marked Vaughan Williams's 150th birthday, for which The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society commissioned a new work from Ian Venables, one of Britain's most distinguished composers and a master of song composition.
Venables has created a song cycle, Portraits of a Mind, using the same forces (tenor, piano and string quartet) as those specified for Vaughan Williams's song cycle On Wenlock Edge. The work paints a series of five portraits of Vaughan Williams by setting poets associated with him: George Meredith (The Lark Ascending, of course); Ursula Vaughan Williams; Robert Louis Stevenson; Christina Rossetti; and Walt Whitman.
The new work was premiered at The Oxford Lieder Festival last November, and John Quinn (Seen and Heard International) wrote: "These five songs constitute a very fine and eloquent tribute to VW. Venables has achieved a well-deserved reputation as a pre-eminent composer of English song and he proved to be, as I had expected, an ideal choice for this Ralph Vaughan Williams Society commission."
The review continued: "Alessandro Fisher, a past member of the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme (2018-21), made an immediate impression. His ringing voice was ideally suited to the music and I was impressed by the clarity both of his diction and his tone, qualities which were to be a feature of the whole concert."\n\nOn Wenlock Edge is the ideal companion for this recording - but we knew that Vaughan Williams's Four Hymns were also arranged for tenor, piano and string quartet in 1925, and performed by Steuart Wilson and others. That score is lost, so we commissioned Iain Farrington to create a modern replacement.
The recording was directed by pianist William Vann, accompanied by the Navarra String Quartet.
01. On Wenlock Edge: I. On Wenlock Edge
02. On Wenlock Edge: II. From Far, From Eve and Morning
03. On Wenlock Edge: III. Is My Team Ploughing?
04. On Wenlock Edge: IV. Oh, When I Was in Love With You
05. On Wenlock Edge: V. Bredon Hill
06. On Wenlock Edge: VI. Clun
07. Portraits of a Mind: I. The Lark Ascending
08. Portraits of a Mind: II. Man Makes Delight His Own
09. Portraits of a Mind: III. From a Railway Carriage
10. Portraits of a Mind: IV. Echo
11. Portraits of a Mind: V. A Clear Midnight
12. Four Hymns: I. Lord! Come Away
13. Four Hymns: II. Who is This Fair One?
14. Four Hymns: III. Come Love, Come Lord
15. Four Hymns: IV. Evening Hymn (O Gladsome Light)
2022 marked Vaughan Williams's 150th birthday, for which The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society commissioned a new work from Ian Venables, one of Britain's most distinguished composers and a master of song composition.
Venables has created a song cycle, Portraits of a Mind, using the same forces (tenor, piano and string quartet) as those specified for Vaughan Williams's song cycle On Wenlock Edge. The work paints a series of five portraits of Vaughan Williams by setting poets associated with him: George Meredith (The Lark Ascending, of course); Ursula Vaughan Williams; Robert Louis Stevenson; Christina Rossetti; and Walt Whitman.
The new work was premiered at The Oxford Lieder Festival last November, and John Quinn (Seen and Heard International) wrote: "These five songs constitute a very fine and eloquent tribute to VW. Venables has achieved a well-deserved reputation as a pre-eminent composer of English song and he proved to be, as I had expected, an ideal choice for this Ralph Vaughan Williams Society commission."
The review continued: "Alessandro Fisher, a past member of the BBC's New Generation Artists scheme (2018-21), made an immediate impression. His ringing voice was ideally suited to the music and I was impressed by the clarity both of his diction and his tone, qualities which were to be a feature of the whole concert."\n\nOn Wenlock Edge is the ideal companion for this recording - but we knew that Vaughan Williams's Four Hymns were also arranged for tenor, piano and string quartet in 1925, and performed by Steuart Wilson and others. That score is lost, so we commissioned Iain Farrington to create a modern replacement.
The recording was directed by pianist William Vann, accompanied by the Navarra String Quartet.
Year 2023 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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