Songs of Farewell
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PARRY / and others
Songs of Farewell
Tenebrae / Nigel Short
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 8 September 2011
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"Of this programme's type, I can't envisage hearing anything better."
(BBC Music)
BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012 - Choral Finalist
"[Tenebrae's] account of Parry's Songs of Farewell abounds in subtleties of phrasing and telling distinctions of dynamic, yet flows beautifully, the textual narrative unfolding with a rare continuity and coherence. Technically the singing is impeccable without being at all effortful or studied...Huge credit to Nigel Short. Of this programme's type, I can't envisage hearing anything better."
(BBC Music)
Following a string of five-star reviews for their previous discs of 20th-century French choral music (Poulenc's Figure Humaine ) and Renaissance polyphony (Victoria's Requiem), the professional chamber-choir Tenebrae go from strength to strength with this new recording of British partsongs and choral music - centred on Hubert Parry's Songs of Farewell.
Composed towards the end of Parry's life, the Songs of Farewell have taken on something of an epithetical interpretation; they are almost a musical summation of his compositional life, reflecting Parry's love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs as much as the influence on his work from German composers like Brahms - made more complicated as these works were composed as the country (and its music) fell out of favour at the start of the Great War.
Tracks:
Bennett, R R:
A Good-night
Elgar:
They are at rest
Harris, W:
Bring us, O Lord God
Holst:
The Evening-watch, H159
Howells:
Take him, earth, for cherishing
Parry:
Songs of Farewell
Sullivan, A:
The long day closes (arr. Philip Lawson)
Tavener:
Funeral Ikos
Vaughan Williams:
The Turtle Dove
Rest
