PARRY English Lyrics and Other Songs Vol 1
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Composer or Director: (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Somm Recordings
Magazine Review Date: 12/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SOMMCD257
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| English Lyrics, Set 1, Movement: My love hath my heart (wds. P. Sidney) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 1, Movement: Good-night (wds. Shelley) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 1, Movement: Where shall the lover rest? (wds. W. Scott) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 1, Movement: Willow, willow, willow (wds. Shakespeare) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 2, Movement: O mistress mine |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 2, Movement: Take, O take those lips away |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 2, Movement: No longer mourn for me |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 2, Movement: Blow, blow, thou winter wind |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 2, Movement: When icicles hang by the wall |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Lucasta (wds. Lovelace) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: To Anthea (wds. Lovelace) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Why so pale and wan? (wds. J. Suckling) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 4, Movement: Weep you no more |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Of all the torments (wds. A. Walsh) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 5, Movement: Lay a garland (wds. Beaumont/Fletcher) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 11, Movement: Why art thou slow |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 7, Movement: On a time the amorous Silvy (wds. Anon) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 7, Movement: Follow a shadow (wds. B. Jonson) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 7, Movement: Ye little birds that sit and sing (wds. Heywood) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 7, Movement: O never say that I was false of heart (wds. Shakes |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 7, Movement: Julia (wds. R. Herrick) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| English Lyrics, Set 10, Movement: One silent night of late |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 12, Movement: To blossoms (wds. R. Herrick) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 12, Movement: Rosaline (wds. Lodge) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| English Lyrics, Set 5, Movement: Crabbed age and youth (wds. Shakespeare) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Susan Gritton, Soprano |
| English Lyrics, Set 6, Movement: Under the greenwood tree (wds. Shakespeare) |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano Roderick Williams, Baritone |
| (4) Sonnets by Shakespeare |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
| If thou survive my well-contented day |
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer
(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Andrew West, Piano James Gilchrist, Tenor |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
Here is the first of three volumes from Somm which will embrace all 12 sets of Parry’s English Lyrics – a veritable cornucopia of exquisitely articulate settings of indigenous poetry which blazed a trail for the emergence of the English art song in the hands of such masters as Butterworth, Gurney, Warlock, Bridge, Ireland, Finzi and Britten. For proof positive of this figure’s instinctive genius for serving the text, let me urge immediate exploration of such gems as ‘Take, O take those lips away’, ‘Weep you no more, sad fountains’ and ‘Lay a garland on my hearse’. Elsewhere, it would be a hard heart indeed that failed to respond to the sly humour of ‘On a time the amorous Silvy’ or ‘One silent night of late’, the gentle poignancy of ‘To Blossoms’ (a sublime setting of Herrick from 1917 that occupied Parry on and off fully 40 years before he was satisfied), or the captivating charm of ‘When icicles hang by the wall’ (with its cheeky refrain of ‘Tuwhoo! Tuwhit! Tuwhoo!’). A nourishing 71-minute sequence concludes with an early published group of four thoroughly endearing settings of Shakespeare’s sonnets in German (a reminder that Parry grew up steeped in the Lied tradition of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms). A setting from the same period (1873 82) of Sonnet 32 (‘If thou survive my well-contented day’) also receives its long-overdue first recording.
I’m happy to report that all three soloists are thoroughly attuned to the idiom, their interpretations both admirably secure in technique and consistently pleasing in terms of intelligent word-pointing (I should add that the booklet contains full texts). Andrew West’s accompaniments are admirably stylish, and Jeremy Dibble’s scholarly yet personable notes prove a real boon. Boasting natural, ideally intimate sound, this is indeed a tasty first instalment. Roll on Vol 2!
PARRY English Lyrics and Other Songs Vol 1
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