English Orchestral Songs

CDA67065

Recording details: August 1998
City Halls, Candleriggs, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Philip Hobbs
Release date: March 1999
Total duration: 70 minutes 27 seconds

'Singing of distinction and a programme of remarkable strength. Hyperion is on to a winner here' (The Yorkshire Post)

'Maltman captures the almost unbearably poignant feeling of these [Gurney] songs' (BBC Music Magazine)

English Orchestral Songs

Christopher Maltman (baritone), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

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	MP3	FLAC	ALAC
1	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	The North Wind [3'55] Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
2	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Prince Madoc's Farewell [4'01] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
3	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	The Fairy Lough Loughareema! Lies so high among the heather (No 2 of An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures, Op 77) [3'45] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
4	£0.60	£0.60	£0.60	To the soul Darest thou now, O soul (No 4 of Songs of Faith, Op 97) [4'41] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
5	£0.65	£0.65	£0.65	Tears (No 5 of Songs of Faith, Op 97) [4'59] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
6	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Chieftain of Tyrconnell [4'11] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
7	£1.30	£1.30	£1.30	The Soldier's Tent [10'25] Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
				Five Elizabethan Songs Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), arr. Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
8	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Under the greenwood tree [1'36]
9	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Orpheus [2'16]
10	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Sleep [3'49]
11	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Spring [2'44]
12	£0.40	£0.40	£0.40	In Flanders I'm homesick for my hills again [3'01] Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), arr. Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
13	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	By a bierside This is a sacred city, built of marvellous earth [4'25] Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), arr. Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
	£2.05	£2.05	£2.05	Let us garlands bring Op 18 [16'39] Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
14	£0.45	£0.45	£0.45	Come away, death [3'38]
15	£0.20	£0.20	£0.20	Who is Silvia? [1'43]
16	£0.80	£0.80	£0.80	Fear no more the heat o' the sun [6'24]
17	£0.25	£0.25	£0.25	O mistress mine [2'00]
18	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	It was a lover and his lass [2'54]

It will be remembered that Christopher Maltman won the Lieder Prize at last year's Cardiff Singer of the World competition. He has since become widely known and admired for his rich baritone voice and stylish singing in a wide variety of musical styles. (He sang the part of Reggie Fairfax in our recording of The Geisha issued in January.)

Most of the songs on this CD are first recordings. Indeed we think one or two of them are first performances, having been specially edited by Jeremy Dibble from the original manuscripts. The Gurney songs have, of course, been recorded many times before with their original piano accompaniment but never in these orchestral arrangements by Gerald Finzi and Herbert Howells.

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