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Track(s) taken from CDA67020

O Lord, what is man!

composer
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
arranger
William Gardiner (1770-1853)
Dirge; Sacred Melodies i, London, 1812

Adrian Peacock (bass), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)
Recording details: September 1997
St Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: March 1998
Total duration: 1 minutes 50 seconds

Cover artwork: The Ancient of Days. William Blake (1757-1827)
The Whitworth Gallery, The University of Manchester
 

Reviews

‘Once again Peter Holman's scholarship offers a fascinating glimpse of a neglected repertoire’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘An infectious CD bringing to life a neglected period and its forgotten music. What fun parish music must have been for the likes of Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Blake or Thackeray’ (Classic CD)
O Lord, what is man! is one of the many arrangements of Haydn made by his admirer, the Leicester stocking manufacturer and amateur musician William Gardiner. With a one-to-a-part accompaniment, Raphael’s ‘whale’ recitative from Haydn’s Creation becomes an intimate and intense meditation on death.

from notes by Peter Holman © 1998

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