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Track(s) taken from CDD22071

Mantle of blue

First line:
O, men from the fields!
composer
Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
March 1918
author of text
Padraic Colum (1881-1972)

Louise Winter (mezzo-soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Recording details: January 1997
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: June 1997
Total duration: 1 minutes 52 seconds

Cover artwork: Alby, Norfolk. John Middleton (1827-1856)
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
 

Mantle of blue is a setting of the well-known poem by Padraic Colum. It is strongly atmospheric, and more interesting if less immediately attractive than the setting by Herbert Hughes published in 1915. In a radio interview the poet was asked about the subject of the poem—whether or not the child is supposed to be dying—he answered that when he wrote it it was intended to be a simple lullaby, but that now he was not so sure!

from notes by Michael Pilkington © 1997

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