Barber, Beamish, Delius & Warlock: On This Shining Night / Williams, Gilchrist, Bevan, Coull Quartet

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
November 18, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Samuel Barber, Sally Beamish, Frederick Delius, Peter Warlock
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Coull Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Roderick Williams, Sophie Bevan, James Gilchrist
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 18, 2022
    • UPC
      748871065420
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0654
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Peterisms, Set 1: No. 1. Chopcherry

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: James Gilchrist

    2. Corpus Christi

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Sophie Bevan, Roderick Williams

    3. The Fairest May

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: James Gilchrist

    4. Mourne no Moe

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    5. Peterisms, Set 1: No. 2. A Sad Song

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Sophie Bevan

    6. My gostly fader

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    7. My Lady Is a Pretty One

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: James Gilchrist

    8. My little sweet darling

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Sophie Bevan

    9. Sleep (version for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    10. Sorrow's Lullaby

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Sophie Bevan, James Gilchrist

    11. Saudades: Take, O take those lips away

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    12. Dover Beach, Op. 3

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    13. 3 Songs, Op. 10: No. 2. Sleep now (arr. R. Williams for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    14. 4 Songs, Op. 13: No. 3. Sure on this Shining Night (arr. R. Williams for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: Samuel Barber

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    15. No. 1. The Miracle Tree

      Composer: Sally Beamish

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    16. No. 2. The trees are troubled…

      Composer: Sally Beamish

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    17. No. 3. Vigil

      Composer: Sally Beamish

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    18. No. 4. The tree is a changing sky…

      Composer: Sally Beamish

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    19. No. 5. Bushes and Briars

      Composer: Sally Beamish

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    20. I-Brasîl (arr. R. Williams for voice and string quartet)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    21. No. 3. Twilight Fancies

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams

    22. No. 4. Young Venevil

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Ensemble: Coull Quartet

      Performer: Roderick Williams


SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce a thrilling first collaboration between long-time SOMM stablemates, baritone Roderick Williams and the Coull Quartet, joined by tenor James Gilchrist and soprano Sophie Bevan. With six world premiere recordings, On This Shining Night is a ravishing recital focusing revealingly on a 20th-century phenomenon: works for voice and string quartet. It takes its title from a James Agate setting by Samuel Barber (whose masterly "Dover Beach" is also heard), here in a sublime arrangement by Roderick Williams. Williams also provides arrangements of Barber’s "Sleep Now" and three Frederick Delius pieces from his Seven Songs from the Norwegian: the evocative "Twilight Fancies," vivacious "Young Venevil" and exotic "I-Brasil." They serve, as Robert Matthew-Walker’s erudite booklet notes observe, as companions to 11 songs by Delius’s close friend and associate, Peter Warlock, including the gentle intimacy of "Corpus Christi," the “mini-cantata” "Sorrow’s Lullaby," and unique free-recitative of "My gostly vader."

Composed for Williams and the Coull Quartet, Sally Beamish’s five-part Tree Carols offer striking, variegated settings of poems by Fiona Sampson in their premiere recording. Roderick Williams’ SOMM catalogue include the acclaimed three-volume Twelve Sets of English Lyrics by Hubert Parry (SOMMCD 257, 270, 272), Sally Beamish’s Four Songs from Hafez (Birdsong, SOMMCD 0633), and the classic English song cycles A Shropshire Lad and Maud (SOMMCD 0615), which MusicWeb International declared a “game changer… in terms of our appreciation of Arthur Somervell’s songs”. The Coull Quartet has recorded a wide repertoire for SOMM. Their recording of Nicholas Maw and Benjamin Britten quartets (SOMMCD 065) was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and a BBC Music Magazine Benchmark Recording. Gramophone declared their recent SOMM release with Clélia Iruzun, Treasures from the New World, featuring piano quintets by Amy Beach and Henrique Oswald (SOMMCD 0609), “a delight”.