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Track(s) taken from SIGCD401

Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy

First line:
Weep with me all ye that read
composer
December 1912
author of text
Epitaph on S.P., a Child of Q[ueen] El[izabeth's] Chapel

Robin Tritschler (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Recording details: February 2014
St Michael's Church, Summertown, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Raphaël Mouterde
Engineered by Mike Hatch & Robin Hawkins
Release date: November 2014
Total duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds

Cover artwork: The Volunteer (c1914-1916).
© HIP / Topfoto / ArenaPAL
 

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Reviews

'This timely recital includes songs by those, more ore less obscure who fell young in the First World War—George Butterworth, Albéric Magnard, Rudi Stephan, William Denis Browne and others—and by those who survived, were imprisoned or were otherwise affected by that shameful conflict. The gifted tenor Robin Tritschler's singing is nuanced sensitively, while the pianist Malcolm Martineau is, as always, an astute partner' (The Sunday Times)
Browne's setting of Ben Jonson’s ambitious poem Epitaph on Salathiel Pavy (subtitled ‘A Child of Queen Elizabeth’s Chapel’), was conceived as a companion piece to ‘Diaphenia’. It relates the tale of a thirteen-year-old chorister who also excelled as an actor, the poet’s conceit being that the child acted an old man so well that the Fates took him to be one and death ensued. The music has the character of a slow, sad dance, like a Pavan, with an extended arched, lamenting melody in the unusual time signatures of 10/4 or 12/4. Elizabethan influences are again apparent, whilst the verses are bound together by a ritornello with a portentous descending chromatic bass and ascending triads, symbols respectively of a summons to the grave, and a gasping for life.

from notes by Andrew Burn © 2003

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