The complete Havergal Brian songbook – volume 2
The second CD in a two-disc series that comprises the complete songs of Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
Related Artists: Michelle Walton, Mark Stone, Sholto Kynoch
Catalogue No: 5060192780277
Reviews
Brian fanatics, while no doubt queueing up for more, will savour the consistently strong performance by these three fine musicians (BBC Music Magazine)
Mark Stone and Sholto Kynoch prove strong interpreters of the songs, some of the most individual in the British repertoire… Strongly recommended. (Gramophone)
Even when Brian’s prosody seems curious or arbitrary he shapes the vocal lines with a pleasing naturalness, and he finds an altogether more intimate approach in songs like ‘Farewell’. (Stone also provides the booklet notes, which are well researched and free from egregious error.) (International Record Review)
Track listing
- The defiled sanctuary
- Renunciation
- Lady Ellayne
- The land of dreams
- The birds
- Der König in Thule
- Gretchen am Spinnrade
- The mad maid’s song
- Why dost thou wound and break my heart
- The night piece
- Piping down the valleys wild
- The blossom
- The chimney sweeper
- The fly
- The little black boy
- Dear Adonis
- Transporting joy
- Four miniatures – I. Allegro
- Four miniatures – II. Lento tranquillo e sempre rubato
- Four miniatures – III. Andante e grazioso
- Four miniatures – IV. Andante tranquillo e sempre rubato
- When the sun goes down
- On parting
- Love is a merry game