The love song of Har Dyal

First line:

Alone upon the housetops to the North

composer

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

No 11 of Kipling Settings

author of text

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Recordings

Grainger: Jungle Book & other choral works

Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

Buy by post £6.99 CDH55433 Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Details

Lesley Jane Rogers (soprano), Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

Track 25 on CDH55433 [2'14] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

English

The love song of Har Dyal

The love song of Har Dyal is a setting of a three-stanza verse from the story ‘Beyond the Pale’ in Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills. A setting for voice and piano dates from 12 September 1901 whilst the version recorded here for soprano solo and ‘room-music’ accompaniment was not scored until 1 January 1958. In this beautiful setting Grainger manages to stun us with the rising motif to the words ‘Come back to me, Beloved, or I die!’ which on each repeat becomes more and more heartfelt.

Track-specific metadata

Details for CDH55433 track 25

Artists

Lesley Jane Rogers (soprano)

Polyphony

Stephen Layton (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-96-86325

Duration

2'14

Recording date

20 January 1996

Recording venue

St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Mark Brown

Recording engineer

Antony Howell & Julian Millard

Hyperion usage

Grainger: Jungle Book & other choral works (CDA66863)
Disc 1 Track 25
Release date: May 1996
Deletion date: December 2010
Superseded by CDH55433
Grainger: Jungle Book & other choral works (CDH55433)
Disc 1 Track 25
Release date: February 2011
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Hyperion Records