Songs to the Moon
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Songs to the Moon
Allan Clayton, Mary Bevan, Myrthen Ensemble
[ Signum / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 1 June 2016
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Described by The Telegraph as "the creme de la creme of young British-based musical talent", and praised in BBC Music Magazine for their "irresistible combination of arresting programing and vocal flair assembled around pianist Joseph Middleton", the newly formed Myrthen Ensemble brings together rising stars in the world of art-song and Lieder. This disc features performances by Mary Bevan, Clara Mouriz, Allan Clayton, Marcus Farnsworth and Joseph Middleton.
Joseph Middleton writes to introduce the recording: "The moon has, since antiquity, inspired artists, musicians and wordsmiths. The programme on this disc looks to its many characteristics for inspiration. The songs are at turns consoling, sometimes seductive in serenades and occasionally paint the moon as a threatening force through its extinguishing of the suns rays. The moon's silver beams cast their magic in music by Brahms and Schumann in the first of these CDs and in the second, inspire the exquisite treatment of Clair de lune by a selection of the finest French song composers. Short English nocturnal overtures begin each disc."
Tracks:
Barber:
Four Songs, Op. 13, No. 4 (Nocturne)
Brahms:
Nächtens Op. 112 No. 2
Vor Der Tür Op. 28 No. 2
Unbewegte laue Luft (No. 8 from Acht Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 57)
Der Gang Zum Liebchen, Op. 31 No. 3
Walpurgisnacht, Op. 75 No. 4
Ständchen, Op. 106 No. 1
Der Abend Op. 64 No. 2
Vergebliches Ständchen, Op. 84 No. 4
Chausson:
La nuit, Op. 11, No. 1
Debussy:
Apparition - song (1884)
Duparc:
La Fuite
Fauré:
Clair de Lune, Op. 46 No. 2
Pleurs d'or Op. 72
Tarentelle Op. 10 No. 2
Hahn, R:
Chansons grises
L'heure exquise
Maconchy:
Sun, Moon and Stars
Massenet:
Rêvons c'est l'heure
Mompou:
Damunt de tu, nomes les flors
Saint-Saëns:
Guitares et Mandolines (St-Saëns)
Schumann:
Unterm Fenster, Op. 34 No. 3
Mondnacht (No. 5 from Liederkreis, Op. 39)
Zwei Venetianische Lieder, Op. 25 Nos. 17 & 18
Die Lotosblume, Op. 25 No. 7
In der Nacht, Op. 74 No. 4
Szulc:
Clair De Lune Op. 83 No. 1
Warlock:
The Night
