EMR CD053 | DETAILS
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WITH HARMONY OF SOUL AND SONG
Songs of Hubert Parry
  Jeremy Huw Williams (bar.)
Paula Fan (pf)
   
   

Nestled amidst the large-scale musical works that define the accepted view of Parry as religious patriot are numerous songs that demonstrate the composer’s longstanding love of poetry, as well as his mastery of detail that brings these words to life.  Parry turned to song throughout his life, beginning from his days at Eton in the 1860s to the year of his death in 1918.  This new recording of Parry’s songs by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan traces the composer’s journey from some of his earliest efforts at song – ‘Three Odes of Anacreon’, in a première recording – through his various returns to the genre over the course of more than half a century.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918)
‘THREE ODES OF ANACREON’ (World Première recording)
1. ‘Away, away, you men of rules’  
2. ‘Fill me, boy, as deep a draught’  
3. ‘Golden hues of life are fled’  
       
 
4. ‘GOOD NIGHT’  
5. ‘TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY’  
6. ‘TO LUCASTA’  
7. ‘IF THOU WOULD’ST EASE THINE HEART’  
8. ‘TO ALTHEA’  
9. ‘WHY SO PALE AND WAN’  
10. ‘WEEP YOU NO MORE’  
11. ‘PROUD MAISIE’  
12. ‘LAY A GARLAND’  
13. ‘A WELSH LULLABY’  
14. ‘WHEN COMES MY GWEN’  
15. ‘AND YET I LOVE HER TILL I DIE’  
16. ‘LOVE IS A BABLE’  
17. ‘UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE’  
18. ‘ON A TIME THE AMOROUS SILVY’  
19. ‘YE LITTLE BIRDS’  
20. SONNET CIX (‘O NEVER SAY THAT I WAS FALSE OF HEART’)  
21. ‘SLEEP’  
22. ‘NIGHTFALL IN WINTER’  
23. ‘DIRGE IN WOODS’  
24. ‘GRAPES’  
25. ‘ARMIDA’S GARDEN’  
26. ‘DREAM PEDLARY’  

 

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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