The complete Havergal Brian songbook – vol.1
The first CD in a two-disc series that comprises the complete songs of Havergal Brian (1876-1972)
Catalogue Number: 5060192780154
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
- Sorrow song
- The message
- Farewell
- Little sleeper
- John Dowland’s fancy
- A faery song
- The soul of steel
- Since love is dead
- Legend for violin and piano
- When icicles hang by the wall
- Care-charmer sleep
- Take, O, take those lips away
- The mountain and the squirrel
- The lost doll
- What does little birdie say
- The boys and the pastille
- The butterfly’s waltz
- Venus and a bobby
- Soliloquy upon a dead child
- Day and night
- When I lie ill
- If I could speak