EnIvor Gurney Songs

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IVOR GURNEY
EnIvor Gurney Songs
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Ian Burnside (piano)

[ Naxos English Song Series Vol 19 / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 September 2009

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Comedy, desolation and lovelorn longing all touch the music of this 'lover and maker of beauty', whose songs find ideal interpreters in Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside...

Described by his teacher, Stanford, as 'the one who most fulfilled the accepted ideas of genius', the poet and composer Ivor Gurney composed more than 300 songs despite suffering from bipolar disorder and tuberculosis. The Five Elizabethan Songs show the young composer's astonishing limpid fluency, while Tears and Sleep rank among his most exquisite creations. Comedy, desolation and lovelorn longing all touch the music of this 'lover and maker of beauty', whose songs find ideal interpreters in Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside.

Tracks:

1. On the Downs (John Masefield) 00:01:52
2. Ha'nacker Mill (Hilaire Belloc) 00:02:19
3. The Bonny Earl of Murray (Traditional) 00:01:48
4. The Cherry Trees (Edward Thomas) 00:01:07
5. By a Bierside (John Masefield) 00:03:59

5 Elizabethan Songs (John Fletcher / Thomas Nashe / William Shakespeare)
6. No. 1. Orpheus with his lute 00:02:17
7. No. 2. Tears 00:03:09
8. No. 3. Under the greenwood tree 00:01:35
9. No. 4. Sleep 00:03:06
10. No. 5. Spring 00:02:37

11. 7 Sappho Songs: The Apple Orchard (Bliss Carman) 00:01:09
12. All night under the moon (Wilfred Gibson) 00:03:12
13. The Latmian Shepherd (Edward Shanks) 00:03:45
14. I will go with my father a - ploughing (Joseph Campbell) 00:02:26
15. Last Hours (John Freeman) 00:03:42
16. Cathleen ni Houlihan (W.B. Yeats) 00:02:56
17. A cradle song (W.B. Yeats) 00:02:27
18. The Fiddler of Dooney (W.B. Yeats) 00:01:55
19. Snow (Edward Thomas) 00:02:03
20. The Singer (Edward Shanks) 00:02:25
21. Nine of the clock (Robert Graves) 00:00:53
22. Epitaph in old mode (John Collings Squire) 00:02:17
23. The Ship (John Collings Squire) 00:02:20
24. The Scribe (Walter de la Mare) 00:02:40
25. Fain would I change that note (Tobias Hume) 00:02:45
26. An Epitaph (Walter de la Mare) 00:01:50
27. When Death to either shall come (Robert Seymour Bridges)00:01:32
28. Thou didst delight my eyes (Robert Seymour Bridges)00:02:05
29. The boat is chafing (John Davidson) 00:01:28
30. Lights Out (Edward Thomas) 00:03:55

Total Playing Time: 01:11:34