Lennox Berkeley: Lieder
Lieder
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- Cocteau's Tombeau; D'un vanneur de ble aux vents; Automne op. 60 Nr. 3; Sonett op. 102; Ode du premier jour de mai; Bells of Cordoba; How love came in; 5 Poems by WH Auden; Autumn's Legacy; 5 Chinese Songs; 5 Herrick Poems
- Künstler: James Gilchrist (Tenor),Anna Tilbrook (Klavier), Alison Nichols (Harfe)
- Label: Chandos, DDD, 2007
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.6.2009
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Acclaimed as a concert soloist, recitalist and a recording artist, James Gilchrist is one of the finest British tenors of today. In his first solo disc for Chandos, he performs a representative survey of the songs of Lennox Berkeley which demonstrates the distinctly Gallic flavour inspired by his time in France along with a spiritual intensity from his devotion to Roman Catholicism. James is accompanied by Anna Tilbrook on piano and Alison Nicholls on harp.
This collection, of complete song cycles and individual songs is offered in a more-or-less chronological layout and presents five premiere recordings: Autumn’s Legacy, Cocteau’s Tombeau, Bells of Cordoba, Five Herrick Poems and Sonnet Op. 102. The miniature cycle, Cocteau’s Tombeau dates from Berkeley’s first year in Paris where he went to study with Nadia Boulanger and is characteristic of Les six. Autumn’s Legacy is recognised as Berkeley’s most ambitious cycle, commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival. The seven songs draw on a variety of poets including Beddoes, Lawrence Durrell, Tennyson and Hopkins – which show the range of Berkeley’s reading.
James Gilchrist writes of the recording project, ‘I was enormously excited to be given this opportunity to record some of Berkeley’s songs. I’ve long known and loved many. But putting together this disc has allowed Anna and me to study his songs in some detail and find many new treasures. There is a strikingly varied approach to his setting of song, from sparse simplicity to almost over-egged lusciousness. But throughout is a truly individual voice. Recording the monumental Autumn’s Legacy was a huge challenge, and Berkeley is able to find a convincing musical voice for Hopkins, a poet whom I feel often sees composers stumble. And it’s striking how Berkeley kept coming back to setting French poems, with great success.’
This collection helps to reveal the status of Berkeley’s vocal music, which makes an unrivalled contribution to the central repertoire of songs in the English – and partly French – tradition. Peter Dickinson provides extensive booklet notes about each individual song.
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“At last a disc devoted to the forgotten songs of Lennox Berkeley. Gilchrist is his own man: a fine artist and particularly well suited to these songs. Anna Tilbrook is the totally admirable accompanist, with Alison Nicholls the harpist in the attractive Herrick settings.” John Steane Gramophone - September 2009
“Tenor James Gilchrist has long been a supporter of the music of Lennox Berkeley and is a powerful advocate on this selection of songs many of which receive their premiere recordings here. Gilchrist sounds ravishing, and is ably supported by Tilbrook and Nicholls” Warwick Thompson Classic FM Magazine - October 2009
“Gilchrist’s smooth, lightish tenor is the ideal voice for this repertoire: few singers have this ease in floating a line without guttural interruption – in the melisma of ‘De Socrate’ from the Cocteau cycle Trombeaux for example. He demonstrates his characteristic feeling for the words in all these songs, but especially in the multi-poet cycle Autumn’s Legacy. Anna Tilbrook partners with insight and a subtle ear for capturing a song’s mood through timbre; and Alison Nicholls proves equally involving in the harp-accompanied Five Herrick Poems.” Matthew Rye BBC Music Magazine - September 2009
“These are wonderful songs of loss and regret tinged with melancholy at the passing of the seasons and the transience of human existence: Gilchrist and Tilbrook make them their own.” Christopher Cook International Record Review - September 2009
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- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Poems op. 14 Ode du premier jour de Mai (1940)
Tombeaux Nr. 1-5 (1926) (für Tenor und Klavier)
- 2 Nr. 1 De Sapho. Tres lent
- 3 Nr. 2 De Socrate. Moderato
- 4 Nr. 3 D'un fleuve. Con moto
- 5 Nr. 4 De Narcisse. Triste et lent
- 6 Nr. 5 De Don Juan. Vif
- 7 How Love Came In (1933) (für Tenor und Klavier)
- 8 Poems op. 14 Bells Of Cordoba
Poems op. 53 Nr. 1-5 (Auden)
- 9 Nr. 1 Lauds. Among The Leaves The Small Birds Sing
- 10 Nr. 2 O Lurcher-Loving Collier, Black as Night
- 11 Nr. 3 What's In Your Mind, My Dove, My Coney
- 12 Nr. 4 Eyes Look Into The Well
- 13 Nr. 5 Carry Her Over The Water
Lieder nach Gedichten von Herrick op. 89 Nr. 1-5 (1973 / 4, rev. 1976) (für Tenor und Harfe)
- 14 Nr. 1 Now Is Your Turne, My Dearest, To Be-Set
- 15 Nr. 2 Dearest Of Thousands, Now The Time Dras Neare
- 16 Nr. 3 These Springs Were Maidens Once That Lov'd
- 17 Nr. 4 My God! Look On Me Withe'eye
- 18 Nr. 5 If Nine Times You Your Bridegroom Kisse
Autumn's Legacy op. 58 Nr. 1-7 (1962) (für Tenor und Klavier)
- 19 Nr. 1 The Mighty Thoughts Of An Old World
- 20 Nr. 2 All Night A Wind Of Music
- 21 Nr. 3 Lesbos
- 22 Nr. 4 Tonight The Winds Begin To Rise
- 23 Nr. 5 Hurrahing In Harvest
- 24 Nr. 6 Rich Days
- 25 Nr. 7 When We Were Idlers With The Loitering Rills
- 26 Autonne op. 60, 3 (1963) (für Tenor und Klavier)
- 27 Poems op. 14 Ode du premier jour de Mai (1940)
- 28 Sonnet op. 102 (1862) (für Tenor und Klavier)
Chinesische Lieder op. 78 Nr. 1-5 (1971) (für Tenor und Klavier)
- 29 Nr. 1 People Hide Their Love
- 30 Nr. 2 The Autumn Wind
- 31 Nr. 3 Dreaming Of A Dead Lady
- 32 Nr. 4 Late Spring
- 33 Nr. 5 The Riverside Village
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