EMR CD049 | DETAILS
  EMR CD049
   
 

DREAM TRYST
Choral music by Holst and Dyson
  Godwine Choir | Matthew Jorysz (org.)
Alex Davan Wetton (cond.) | Edward Hughes (cond.)
   
   

From the young and dynamic Godwine Choir comes an attractive programme of works by Gustav Holst and Sir George Dyson. The inspirational, beautiful and powerful pieces featured include a number of World Première recordings: Dyson’s ‘The Seekers’ and ‘Reveille’ from ‘Three Songs of Courage’ of 1935; Holst’s ‘Love is Enough’; and Dyson’s ‘Nocturne’, ‘The Moon’ and ‘I loved a Lass’. The assured conductors Alex Davan Wetton and Edward Hughes produce wonderful results from the choir, bringing these overlooked gems to vibrant life.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
George Dyson (1883–1964)
‘THREE SONGS OF COURAGE’
1. ‘Valour’  
2. ‘The Seekers’ (World Première recording of SATB version)  
3. ‘Reveille’ (World Première recording of SATB version)  
       
Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
WELSH FOLK SONGS
4. ‘Lisa Lan’  
5. ‘Green Grass’  
6. ‘The Nightingale and Linnet’  
7. ‘The Lively Pair’  
       
George Dyson
8. ‘LAUDS’  
9. ‘NOCTURNE’ (World Première recording)  
10. ‘TO MUSIC’  
11. ‘THE MOON’ (World Première recording)  
12. ‘I LOVED A LASS’ (World Première recording)  
       
Gustav Holst
13. ‘LOVE IS ENOUGH’ (World Première recording)  
       
FIVE PART-SONGS
14. ‘Dream Tryst’  
15. ‘Ye little birds’  
16. ‘Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee’  
17. ‘Now is the month of Maying’  
18. ‘Come to me’  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
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