Sarah Connolly - My True Love Hath My Heart (English Songs) (CD)

With works by: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) , Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , Peter Warlock (1894-1930) , John Ireland (1879-1962) , Herbert Howells (1892-1983) , Michael Head (1900-1976) , Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)

Contributors: Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

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Benjamin Britten: O Waly Waly; A Corpus Christi Carol; Early One Morning; How Sweet the Answer
+Ivor Gurney: Sleep; By a Bierside
+Peter Warlock: The First Mercy
+John Ireland: Her Song; Tryst; My True Love Hath My Heart
+Herbert Howells: Lost Love; King David; Gavotte; Come Sing and Dance
+Michael Head: Cotswold Love; Foxgloves
+Richard Rodney Bennett: A History of the The Dansant

Artists:: Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau
Label:: Chandos
Year of recording ca.:: 2010
Item number:: 4563026
UPC/EAN:: 0095115169124
Release date:: 14.10.2011

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Sarah Connolly received excellent reviews for her recital performance of »English Songs« on 11 April 2011 at the Alice Tully Hall in New York. The New York Times wrote: »Ms Connolly's voice was strong and steady through its range, velvety, but with a soft, subtle graininess that gave weight and presence to even her most ethereal floated notes.«

Here the mezzo-soprano, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau on piano, performs four arrangements by Benjamin Britten: three folk songs and one song from an early choral work. These complement the recent Britten CD on Chandos, on which Connolly performs the cantata Phaedra as well as A Charm of Lullabies.

Next come eleven songs from the 1920s, which is considered the golden decade for English art songs. Among the highlights are By a Bierside, Ivor Gurney's stark reflection on death, written in the World War I trenches, and Herbert Howells's King David which has long been considered a masterpiece. Howells himself said: »I am prouder to have written King David than almost anything else of mine.«

The most recent contribution to this disc of English Songs is the surreally retro A History of the Thé Dansant by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, which was published in 1995.

Tracklisting

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, British Isles: No. 6. O Waly, Waly
2 Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, Moore's Irish Melodies: No. 3. How sweet the answer
3 Corpus Christi Carol (after A Boy was Born, Op. 3: Variation 5)
4 Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, British Isles: No. 4. Early one morning
5 King David
6 Come sing and dance
7 3 Songs: No. 2. Her Song
8 2 Songs: No. 2. My true love hath my heart
9 2 Songs: No. 1. Tryst (In Fountain Court)
10 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4. Sleep
11 By a Bierside
12 Gavotte
13 Lost Love Song
14 More Songs of the Countryside: No. 1. Foxgloves
15 The First Mercy
16 3 Cotswold Songs: No. 1. Cotsworld Love
17 No. 1. Foxtrot
18 No. 2. Slow Foxtrot
19 No. 3. Tango

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