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Format : 1 CD
Total Time : 01:03:48
Recording : 2014
Location : Bath/Londres
Country : Royaume-Uni
Sound : Eglise / Stereo
Label : NMC
Catalog No. : NMCD201
EAN : 5023363020121
Price Code : DM021A
Publishing Year : 2015
Release Date : 01/04/2015
Genre : Classical
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Hugh Wood (1932-)Laurie Lee Songs Boy in Ice
The Edge of Day
The Easter Green
Town Owl
April Rise DH Lawrence Songs Dog-tired
Kisses in the Train
Roses on the breakfast table
Gloire de Dijon
River Roses The Isles of Greece Delos
Nemea
Ouzo Unclouded
The Isles of Greece
Bitter Lemons Wild Cyclamen A Dream of Frances Speedwell
Wild Cyclamen
Beatrice and Dante
The Garden
The Leap
Not To Sleep
The Crab-Tree
Bites and Kisss
Horizon
A Lost Jewell
Hedges Freaked With Snow Clare McCladin, soprano
James Gilchrist, ténor
Roderick Williams, baryton
Iain burnside, piano
Simon Lepper, piano
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Composer Hugh Wood is known for his powerfully communicative and lyrical music and this latest release presents a selection of songs spanning his career. They are set to poems by DH Lawrence, Robert Graves, Laurie Lee and Lawrence Durrell, exploring themes of youth, love, lust and longing. Wild Cyclamen (2006) – a song-cycle from twelve individual, unrelated poems by Robert Graves – depicts the rise and fall of a love affair. Hugh Wood explains: “Graves wrote no such cycle but I’ve dared to construct one. It doesn’t achieve too strong a story-line, but the songs are meant to be sung in a fixed order”. The DH Lawrence settings (1998) include three poems Lawrence wrote about his days with Frieda in Bavaria and the Isles of Greece (2007) – written for and dedicated to baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside – is a compilation of poems celebrating various aspects of Greek life and its people. The earliest works on this recording are the Laurie Lee Songs (1956-58) written when Hugh was in his mid twenties.
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