Sirens' Song / Christophers, The Sixteen

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What would singing be without words? When you combine wonderful poetry with exquisite music, the result is magical. In a rare break from the sacred collections they are famed for, this album from The Sixteen features a whole program of secular music devoted to English partsongs. From Stanford’s cycle of Eight Partsongs based on the sparing yet infectious poetry of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge to Bridges’ lyrically descriptive writing in Finzi’s Seven Poems of Robert Bridges and Imogen Holst’s six idyllic partsongs Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow using verses by John Keats, each setting captures the mood of the poem brilliantly.



Product Description:

  • Release Date: September 01, 2023


  • Catalog Number: COR16198


  • UPC: 828021619823


  • Label: CORO


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Period: 20th Century


  • Composer: Gerald Finzi, Imogen Holst, Elizabeth Maconchy, Charles Villers Stanford, Arthur Sullivan, Ralph Vaughan Williams


  • Conductor: Harry Christophers


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: The Sixteen


  • Performer: Sioned Williams



Works:

  1. Eight Partsongs, Op. 119

    Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

    Ensemble: The Sixteen

    Conductor: Harry Christophers


  2. Siren's Song

    Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

    Ensemble: The Sixteen

    Conductor: Harry Christophers


  3. Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow

    Composer: Imogen Holst

    Ensemble: The Sixteen

    Performer: Sioned Williams (Harp)

    Conductor: Harry Christophers


  4. Silence and Music

    Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ensemble: The Sixteen

    Conductor: Harry Christophers


  5. Seven Poems of Robert Bridges

    Composer: Gerald Finzi

    Ensemble: The Sixteen

    Conductor: Harry Christophers


  6. The Long Day Closes

    Composer: Arthur Sullivan

    Ensemble: The Sixteen

    Conductor: Harry Christophers