Berners: Songs & Piano Music
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LORD BERNERS
Berners: Songs & Piano Music
Ian Partridge (tenor) Len Vorster (piano)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 13 May 2022
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Lord Berners was essentially self-taught as a composer, profiting from experiences gained while travelling in Europe, and receiving advice and encouragement from Stravinsky. A tone of wit and humour is established in his masterful settings of Heine in the Lieder Album, and his subtle touch with the French language is well represented in the Trois Chansons. The Fragments psychologiques is a piano cycle that is both virtuosic and expressive. From mock parlour-song parodies to a poem about a dejected goldfish, Lord Berners' keen sense of observation and ironic view on life is here in abundance.
Tracks:
Polka
Lieder Album: 3 Songs in the German Manner
Le poisson d'or (The Goldfish)
Dispute entre le papillon et le crapaud (Dispute between the Butterfly and the Toad)
3 Chansons
3 Petites Marches funèbres (3 Little Funeral Marches)
3 English Songs
Fragments psychologiques (Psychological Fragments)
Dialogue between Tom Filuter and his Man, by Ned the Dog Stealer
March
The Expulsion from Paradise
3 Songs
Halfway House: Valse (version for piano)
Red Roses and Red Noses
Champagne Charlie: Come on, Algernon (version for voice and piano)
