Songs of farewell (Parry)
from Parry: Songs of farewell (SIGCD267)
1 My soul, there is a country [3'52]
2 I know my soul hath power to know all things [2'04]
3 Never weather-beaten sail [3'22]
4 There is an old belief [4'52]
5 At the round earth's imagined corners [7'27]
6 Lord, let me know mine end [10'58]
3 minutes 52 seconds 6 tracks
'Parry's choral masterpieces, the six Songs of Farewell, composed between 1913 and 1915, represent a magnificent summation of his work as an English choral composer whose influence on several generati ...
'The Music Nigel Short's vocal ensemble Tenebrae continues its candlelit journey, after discs of Victoria's Requiem and Allegri's Miserere, with a programme of 15 brief English choral works … the ...
'Parry’s six unaccompanied motets are luminous setting sof texts by mainly seventeenth-century poets, reflecting his love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs. The disc includes choral music ...