Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
Cannon: Lord of Light, String Quartet & 5 Chansons de femme
Lyrita

Cannon: Lord of Light, String Quartet & 5 Chansons de femme

$16.99

Details

Composer
CANNON, PHILIP
Artist
Dell'Acqua, Bowen, Titus, Sand
Format
CD
Label
Lyrita
Released
Apr 07, 2017
Catalog #
REAM1132
UPC
5020926113221

About

Philip Cannon’s catalogue embraces a broad range of genres from operas and symphonies to songs and keyboard works. His first significant pieces were written whilst he was still a student at the RCM. Musicologist Rollo Myers wrote of Philip Cannon, ‘One is conscious of a strong and instinctive musical personality and a purposefulness which excludes all irrelevancies and anything in the nature of “padding” ... in listening to his music one is never conscious of any deliberate striving for effect; what one hears is a direct and personal utterance’. Each of the three works presented here demonstrate that powerful combination of clarity and originality. The music is an extension of the man – unaffected, fearlessly independent and emotionally honest - and he was unsparing of himself in his quest to realise the full potential of his material. As Cannon himself put it, ‘it is what the music says that counts in sincere compositions, and this should be said as simply, lucidly and directly as possible, and should flow inevitably’. Paul Conway

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 Lord of Light, "A Gloucester Requiem" 37:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    Lord of Light, "A Gloucester Requiem"
    Duration
    37:35
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Performer
    Iris Dell'Acqua, Kenneth Bowen, Graham Titus
    Ensemble
    Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor
    John Sanders
  2. 2 No. 1. La mal mariée (The angry wife) 01:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. La mal mariée (The angry wife)
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Performer
    Margaret Price, Maria Korchinska
  3. 3 No. 2. L'amoureuse (A girl in love) 03:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. L'amoureuse (A girl in love)
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Performer
    Margaret Price, Maria Korchinska
  4. 4 No. 3. La veuve (The widow) 04:00
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. La veuve (The widow)
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Performer
    Margaret Price, Maria Korchinska
  5. 5 No. 4. La bien mariée (The merry wife) 01:23
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 4. La bien mariée (The merry wife)
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Performer
    Margaret Price, Maria Korchinska
  6. 6 No. 5. La bien aimée (A girl whose love shines fair) 02:28
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 5. La bien aimée (A girl whose love shines fair)
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Performer
    Margaret Price, Maria Korchinska
  7. 7 String Quartet 19:54
    Track
    7
    Title
    String Quartet
    Duration
    19:54
    Composer
    Philip Cannon
    Ensemble
    Parrenin Quartet