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Track(s) taken from SIGCD401

Brittany, Op 21 No 1

First line:
In Brittany the churches all day are open wide
composer
1914
author of text

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: 2 minutes 19 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)
Ernest Farrar (1885-1918) studied at the Royal College of Music. An accomplished organist he held several posts including one in Dresden. He enlisted in the Grenadier Guards in 1915, and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion Devonshire Regiment in February 1918. On his second day at the Western Front, Farrar was killed at the Battle of Epehy. The war ended only a few weeks later.

Edward Verrall Lucas (1868-1938) was a poet, humourist, and novelist. His whole working life was in literature. He was an apprentice bookseller, a journalist, and a biographer before joining Punch magazine in 1904.

from notes by Robin Tritschler © 2014

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