MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bantock: The Song of Songs

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Sir GRANVILLE BANTOCK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bantock: The Song of Songs
Elizabeth Connell (soprano) Kim Begley (tenor) with William Prideaux (baritone) / Royal Philaharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conductor)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 November 2003

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This disc marks the sixth issue in Hyperion's trail-blazing belief in the robust romanticism and musical energies of Bantock.

Tracks:

Overture to a Greek Tragedy [17'54]
The Wilderness and the Solitary Place [6'19]
Pierrot of the Minute [12'11]

The Song of Songs excerpts [41'00]
The Second Day [19'35]
'The voice of my beloved!' [2'25]
'My beloved spake' [1'56]
'Arise, my love' [2'53]
'Take us the foxes' [3'15]
She flings herself upon a divan in an ecstasy of passionate rapture [2'29]
'By night in my dream I sought him' [3'10]
'But I found him whom my soul loveth' [3'20]

The Third Day [7'01]
The King's gifts [1'04]
The Shulamite [2'16]
The Shulamite is left alone [0'59]
The Shulamite reflects upon her absent shepherd-lover … [1'09]
… and sees him in a vision on the mountainside [1'29]

The Fifth Day [14'24]
'Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness?' [2'00]
'Set me as a seal upon thy heart' [1'42]
'Many waters cannot quench love' [1'03]
'For love is strong as death' [2'31]
'We have a little sister' [3'56]
'Make haste, my beloved' [3'08]