Thomas Allen - Songs, my Father taught me Vol.1
Thomas Allen - Songs, my Father taught me Vol.1
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
- Lieder von Purcell, Tate, Sullivan, Wood, Sanderson, Quilter, Capel, Travers, Penn, Dresser, Lambert, Peed, Dix, Novello, O'Connor, Murray
- Artists: Thomas Allen, Malcolm Martineau
- Label: Hyperion, DDD, 2001
- Order number: 4739137
- Release date: 15.3.2002
Product-Information:
The making of this record was a very special labour of love for Sir Thomas who writes of it:
»The completion of this record marks something of a watershed for me in a career not without incident and highlight. So why, you may ask, should a recording of what were once mostly popular songs be just as telling, if not more so, than the commitment to disc of the great works of Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Berlioz and so many other heavyweight names? I can only say that nostalgia and sentiment are almost entirely responsible, plus a genuine love of the often simple but very beautiful melodies that lie within these songs. The majority of them did indeed enjoy popularity in their day, still do in some cases. Others never made their mark, and I feel should have done, but who can ponder the eternal riddle of why, with works of not dissimilar quality, some make it and others don't. There's no academia behind this recording, just my very simple need to recapture memories I have of amateur singers coming through our house in Seaham Harbour, to practice these songs and others with my father at a time when there seemed a need for reassurance, perhaps, following two world wars. Then, there was no embarrassment at the sentiment common to so many of them, as one might experience now. My father, I think, would have liked the record and I want it to be in his beloved memory ... Thomas Allen« .
Rezensionen
»done stylishly … by a great singer with a gorgeous voice« (American Record Guide)
»Thomas Allen recalls happy evenings round the family piano and offers this well sung collection, which will strike a lost chord with many« (BBC Music Magazine)
»There is a warm and intimate feeling about Allen's treatment of these songs … Malcolm Martineau's accompaniments are exemplary« (Opera News)
»our focus is on Allen's strong, full-voiced renditions that rarely fail to ingratiate and impress … this is music for everyone« (Classicstoday. com)
- Tracklisting
- details
- Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Edward Purcell: Passing by
- 2 Traditionell: The lark in the clear air
- 3 Arthur Sullivan: My dearest heart
- 4 Wilfrid Sanderson: Until
- 5 Haydn Wood: Love's garden of roses
- 6 Traditionell: Drink to me only
- 7 Haydn Wood: It is only a tiny garden
- 8 J. M. Capel: Love, could I only tell thee
- 9 Alison Travers: A mood
- 10 Arthur A. Penn: Smilin' through
- 11 Arthur Sullivan: The lost chord
- 12 Stephen Adams: The holy city
- 13 Jack Robson: The cheviot hills
- 14 Paul Dresser: On the banks of the Wabash, far away
- 15 Haydn Wood: A brown bird singing
- 16 Frank Lambert: She is far from the land
- 17 Graham Peel: In summertime on Bredon
- 18 Airlie Dix: The trumpeter
- 19 Haydn Wood: Bird of love divine
- 20 Graham Peel: God's garden
- 21 Ivor Novello: Till the boys come home
- 22 Oscar Rasbach: Trees
- 23 Frederick O'Conner: The old house
Bird songs at eventide
- 24 Eric Coates: Melodie
- 25 Alan Murray: I'll walk beside you
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