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Release Date: Saturday 10 March 2012
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"From start to finish, the artistry of Alice Coote and Graham Johnson is of the highest order." (Gramophone)
"['Love's Philosophy'] needs and receives a bolder and stronger delivery than its neighbour, rising to a showy conclusion. It allows Coote to introduce an almost operatic approach as her voice peals forth...the Holst songs, mesmerizingly captured by Coote, whose voice seems almost detached as she intones 'Betelgeuse', recorded, like the rest of the programme, in clear sound."
(International Record Review)
"From start to finish, the artistry of Alice Coote and Graham Johnson is of the highest order." (Gramophone)
Alice Coote, one of the most distinctive mezzo-sopranos of today, makes her recital debut on Hyperion with pianist Graham Johnson, a stalwart of the label and tireless explorer of vocal repertoire. The Power of Love creates what Johnson describes as a 'pageant of English song and poetry'. It's a journey through half a century of song, surveying not just human love but love of nature and even of money. Some of the most touching pieces here involve the loss of love through death, not least Ivor Gurney's Lights Out and Gustav Holst's Betelgeuse. There's serenity, too, in mellifluous settings by Roger Quilter, while high spirits are supplied by Maude Valérie White's The Spring has come and Warlock's sardonic Queen Anne, which includes the immortal lines 'I am Queen Anne, of whom 'tis said / I'm chiefly fam'd for being dead'.
Elgar:
Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1
Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2
Gibbs, C A:
A Song of Shadows Op. 15, No. 3
Hypochondriacus
Grainger:
The Power of Love
Gurney:
Lights out
The boat is chafing
Goodnight to the meadow
Holst:
Betelgeuse
Journey's End
Lehmann:
Pa's bank
Love, if you knew the light
Ah, moon of my delight
Moeran:
In youth is pleasure
Molloy:
Love's old sweet song
Peel:
The early morning
Almond, wild almond
Quilter:
Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)
Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson)
There be none of Beauty's daughters, Op. 24, No. 1
Vaughan Williams:
Silent Noon
Warlock:
Queen Anne
The Night
Take, O take those lips away
White, M:
The Spring has come
The Devout Lover