Swann: Songs
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DONALD SWANN
Swann: Songs
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano)
[ Hyperion / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 7 July 2017
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Swann but no Flanders: this economically priced collection celebrates the unique talents of a gifted songwriter whose settings of poets from Burns to Betjeman are ripe for revival. The quartet of distinguished singers is luxury casting.
"this is a continually fascinating and diverse selection...The real star of the show is Christopher Glynn, for whom the project has evidently been a labour of love. The detail and colour of his playing (to say nothing of the way he meets the many technical challenges Swann presents with a knowing wink) in the more than two hours of accompaniments is a fine achievement." Gramophone Magazine, July 2017
"the quality of Swann's craft is clear and Glynn points up every careful detail of some colourful piano writing...If there's a real revelation, however, it's the talent shown by the newcomer of the singing quartet: Rudge, a rising mezzo-soprano with rich tone, who brings more ardour and less archness to the material than her more fêted colleagues." The Times, 28th July 2017 ***
"There are some surprises: Ainsley delivers a passionate Russian number, I loved you once, a Pushkin setting that wouldn't disgrace Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninov. The real revelation, however, is the talent shown by the newcomer of the singing quartet: Rudge, a rising mezzo-soprano with rich tone, who brings more ardour and less archness to the material than her more fêted colleagues." Sunday Times, 6th August 2017
Tracks:
CD1
1 The licorice fields at Pontefract [2'07]
2 Margate 1940 [4'05]
3 Senex [2'08]
4 A subaltern's love song [5'01]
5 Farewell [1'23]
6 I died for Beauty [1'34]
7 I felt a Funeral, in my Brain [2'12]
8 Dying [1'08]
9 I had no time to Hate [1'59]
10 And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you [2'13]
11 Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet [1'30]
12 Stopping by woods [4'50]
13 Thoughts of Phena [2'59]
14 Before life and after [2'54]
15 Be near me when my light is low [2'10]
16 Oh yet we trust that somehow good [2'31]
17 The wish [2'51]
18 There rolls the deep [2'21]
19 When I am dead, my dearest [2'13]
20 A better resurrection [2'43]
21 Dark rose of my heart [3'57]
22 An invite to eternity [4'59]
23 The harlot's house [4'10]
CD2
1The Garden of Love [1'35]
2 Ah! Sun-flower! [1'26]
3 The sick Rose [1'00]
4 The Angel [2'20]
5 The Fly [1'40]
6 Proverb [1'00]
7 Ya vas lyubil 'I loved you once' [2'52]
8 She is all harmony, all wonder [2'33]
9 Some people's dreams [3'42]
10 Marguerite [3'31]
11 A red, red rose [2'10]
12 It was a lover, and his lass [1'58]
13 See, dearest, how the rose [1'58]
14 Arcades [1'51]
15 We'll go no more a-roving [1'15]
16 Longing [2'41]
17 Oh, why are the roses so pale? [1'57]
18 Old songs of lost love [5'12]
19 In the mist [2'42]
20 Raiders' dawn [2'05]
21 The youth of the heart [4'26]
22 He wishes for the cloths of heaven [2'46]
23 Bilbo's last song [4'27]
