Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): Winter Words op.52

Detailinformationen

+4 Burns Songs;Who Are These Children op. 84;If It's Ever
Spring Again;Dawtie's Devotion;The Gully;The Children And
Sir Nameless;Tradition;Ca' The Yowes

  • Künstler: Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
  • Label: BIS, DDD, 2005
  • Bestellnummer: 7141547
  • Erscheinungstermin: 27.5.2008

Winter Words op. 52 (8 Wintergedichte)

  1. 1 1. At day-close in November Start
  2. 2 2. Midnight on the great western Start
  3. 3 3. Wagtail and baby Start
  4. 4 4. The little old table Start
  5. 5 5. The choirmaster's burial Start
  6. 6 6. Proud songsters Start
  7. 7 7. At the railway station, upway Start
  8. 8 8. Before life and after Start

4 burns songs from A birthday hansel op. 92

  1. 9 1. Afton Waters Start
  2. 10 2. Wee Willie Start
  3. 11 3. The winter Start
  4. 12 4. My Hoggie Start

Who are these children op. 84

  1. 13 A riddle (The earth) Start
  2. 14 A laddie's sang Start
  3. 15 Nightmare Start
  4. 16 Black day Start
  5. 17 Bed-time Start
  6. 18 Slaughter Start
  7. 19 A riddle (The child you were) Start
  8. 20 The larky lad Start
  9. 21 Who are these children? Start
  10. 22 Supper Start
  11. 23 The children Start
  12. 24 The auld aik Start
  1. 25 If it's ever spring again Start
  2. 26 Dawtie's devotion Start
  3. 27 The gully Start
  4. 28 The children and Sir Nameless Start
  5. 29 Tradition Start
  6. 30 Ca' the yowes Start

Produktinfo

This Britten recital combines two of the composer’s major song cycles, Winter Words, from 1953, and Who are these Children? (1969). In them he explored themes of loneliness, transcience and war – difficult and harrowing material which would test any composer, but Britten is equal to the challenge. His music works its magic by bringing out poignant emotions and subtle insights, sometimes even more vividly than the texts on their own. The music’s emotional depth is grounded in compelling, quasi-naturalistic sound images, such as the whistling, rattling train in the setting of Thomas Hardy’s Midnight on the Great Western. For the cycle Who are these Children? Britten turned to the relatively little-known poet William Soutar, choosing to intersperse Soutar’s intense English language war poems with the poet’s riddles and verses in Scots dialect. Providing a lighter note between these gripping works are four settings of poems by Robert Burns, containing some of Britten’s most deft and delicate music. Composed on the request of Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, they originally formed part of a set of six songs for high voice and harp, and were later arranged for piano by Britten’s assistant Colin Matthews.

Britten often made more settings of his favourite poets than he eventually included in particular cycles. The present programme includes two further Hardy songs and three additional Soutar settings, forming a ‘mini-cycle’ of their own. In an encore, Robert Burns also reappears in Britten’s arrangement of the traditional setting of the poet’s atmospheric Ca’ the yowes.

Daniel Norman, tenor, has appeared on two previous BIS recordings, as soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony conducted by Osmo Vänskä, and with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet in Winter Songs by the composer Brett Dean. He and Christopher Gould studied together at the Royal Academy of Music and the Britten-Pears School, and have been performing together since 1996. From early on in their collaboration, Britten’s music has played an important role, and they first performed Who are these Children? at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1999.

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