A brilliant and moving recital coupling song cycles by Vaughan Williams, Warlock, and Gurney along with a very special stand alone song by Bliss, this disc by tenor James Gilchrist with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, pianist Anna Tilbrook, flutist Michael Cox, and English hornist Gareth Hulse will thrill fans of English twentieth century vocal music. Each of the works had an interesting genesis. Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge setting of six poems from A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad" was written in 1909 at the high ...
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A brilliant and moving recital coupling song cycles by Vaughan Williams, Warlock, and Gurney along with a very special stand alone song by Bliss, this disc by tenor James Gilchrist with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet, pianist Anna Tilbrook, flutist Michael Cox, and English hornist Gareth Hulse will thrill fans of English twentieth century vocal music. Each of the works had an interesting genesis. Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge setting of six poems from A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad" was written in 1909 at the high tide of the composer's keenness on French music. Ivor Gurney's Ludlow & Teme setting of seven poems from "A Shropshire Lad" was written in 1919 immediately following the composer's first hearing of On Wenlock Edge. Peter Warlock's The Curlew setting of four poems by W.B. Yeats was written in 1915 -- without the poet's permission (Yeats capitulated only after the work was published in 1923). And Arthur Bliss' Elegiac Sonnet setting of a poem by Cecil Day Lewis for Noel Mewton-Wood, the...
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New in new packaging. Originally released: 2007. Former library copy in good condition. Ships same day or next business day. Tracking number with every order. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.