Finzi - Gurney- Somervell - Clarke- Butterworth-ua
James Newby (Bariton) - Joseph Middleton (Piano)
BIS Records
1 SACD Hybrid
084:34
Chor / Lied
2023-03-31
All you who sleep tonight Requiescat The seal man The clock of the years Let us Garlands bring op. 18 (5 Lieder nach Shakespeare) Finzi, Gerald Nr. 1 Come away, come away, death Nr. 2 Who is Silvia? Nr. 3 Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nr. 4 O Mistress Mine Nr. 5 It was a lover and his lass The three ravens (bearb. von John Ireland) By a Bierside Lieder op. 48 (Auszug) Elgar, Edward Nr. 1 Pleading The sky above the roof A Shropshire Lad Somervell, Arthur Nr. 1 Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Nr. 2 When I was one-and-twenty Nr. 3 There pass the careless people Nr. 4 In summer-time on Bredon Nr. 5 The street sounds to the soldiers' tread Nr. 6 On the idle hill of Summer Nr. 7 White in the moon the long road lies Nr. 8 Think no more, lad, laugh, be jolly Nr. 9 Into my heart an air that kills Nr. 10 The lads in their hundreds Tom Bowling Dearest, when I am dead Henry King About here The green-eyed dragon
Finzi - Gurney- Somervell - Clarke- Butterworth-uaJames Newby (Bariton) - Joseph Middleton (Piano)Label : BIS Records
James Newby wished to dedicate this disc to his sister Laura who passed away in 2015, her daughter and his mother. After singing Finzi's 'Fear no more the heat o' the sun' at her funeral, he felt it fitting that the cycle from which it is taken, Let us Garlands Bring, would form the centrepiece of the programme. Alongside this cycle, Middleton and Newby have designed a programme of English songs that reflect on themes of loss, grief and death - but also joy, love and healing.
