The Dark Pastoral

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IVOR GURNEY / DENIS BROWNE / EUGENE GOOSENS
The Dark Pastoral
Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) & Simon Russell-Beale (actor)

[ Altara / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 5 October 2009

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"Andrew Kennedy sings devotedly and with skill, Julius Drake's playing is always responsive, and together they often perform memorably: Goossens's Hardy settings are fine, and contrasted, examples." Gramophone Magazine, October 2008

"…a fine if distinctly gloom-laden recital, cleverly put together and sensitively performed." BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ****

English tenor Andrew Kennedy has chosen to record, with the aid of the Borletti- Buitoni Trust, a project that explores new territory and perspectives within the music and poetry of WWI. He has chosen previously unheard or unpublished songs by three composers - Ivor Gurney, William Denis Browne and Eugene Goosens - and juxtaposed them with works from poets and writers such as Housman, Sassoon, Blunden, Vera Brittain, Charlotte Maw and Gurney himself.