EMR CD078 | DETAILS
  EMR CD078
   
 

SILVER STRIDENCIES OF SOUND
   
  Jeremy Huw Williams (bar.)
Paula Fan (pf.)
   
  EAN 5 060263 500735

The masterful songs of Peter Wishart (1921–1984) were sadly neglected following his death. The Jackdaws Educational Trust, founded by his widow, has sought to remedy this, and the centenary of the composer’s death prompted a revival of his songs, most notably in the London Song Festival’s offering “Three Unsung Geniuses”. In this new EM Records release, baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan present a chronology of 22 of Wishart’s solo songs, dating from three of the first extant offerings of 1952 to a song from his final set, published in 1977.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Peter Wishart (1921–1984)
1. “The Mountebank’s Song”  
2. “A Lover’s Lullaby”  
3. “Feste’s Song”  
4. “O Mistress Mine”  
5. “June Twilight”  
6. “Spring Sadness”  
7. “The Bedpost”  
8. “The Pessimist”  
9. “Joly Wat”  
10. “In You O Lord Have I Hoped”  
11. “Blessed Are Those Whose Iniquities Are Forgiven”  
12. “The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation”  
       
13. Rondo  
14. Nocturne  
15. Variations  
16. Cavatina  
       
17. “Cat Goddesses”  
18. “Bird of Paradise”  
19. “Spider”  
20. “The Jackdaw”  
21. “The Magpie”  
22. “The Royal Fireworks”  
23. “Late Winter”  
24. “Merry-Go-Round”  
25. “Numbers and Makes”  
26. “Orpheus with His Lute”  

 

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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