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Delius: Sea Drift, Songs Of Sunset, Etc / Hickox, Terfel
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Details
- Composer
- DELIUS, FREDERICK
- Artist
- Hickox
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Chandos
- Released
- Aug 28, 2015
- Catalog #
- CHAN 10868 X
- UPC
- 095115186824
About
5 out of 5 stars for Performance and Sound!
This disc was an award-winner when it first appeared in 1993, and rightly so. These are among Delius’s finest and most consistent works, and Hickox directs them with an authority and atmosphere that recalls Beecham or Barbirolli. Bryn Terfel, as soloist in Sea Drift, contributes one of the finest and most deeply-felt performances of his now extensive discography, and this is one of the most restrainedly expressive interpretations this outpouring of wild pathos has received on disc. Throughout the three works the choirs are ideally responsive to the beauty of the poetry, coming into their own in the late Songs of Farewell. If Songs of Sunset doesn’t quite efface the memory of Charles Groves’s 1968 account with Janet Baker and John Shirley-Quirk, this is still a splendid account of a subtle work that offers far more than mere fin-de-siècle languor. Altogether a notable release which it’s a pleasure to welcome back to currency.
-- Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine
Reviewing earlier release of this recording
Tracklist 14 tracks
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1 Sea Drift 25:55
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Sea Drift
- Duration
- 25:55
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Performer
- Bryn Terfel
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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2 No. 1. How sweet the silent backward tracings! (Double Chorus) 04:28
- Track
- 2
- Title
- No. 1. How sweet the silent backward tracings! (Double Chorus)
- Duration
- 04:28
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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3 No. 2. I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (Chorus) 04:37
- Track
- 3
- Title
- No. 2. I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak (Chorus)
- Duration
- 04:37
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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4 No. 3. Passage to you! O secret of the earth and sky! (Chorus) 03:30
- Track
- 4
- Title
- No. 3. Passage to you! O secret of the earth and sky! (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:30
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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5 No. 4. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Double Chorus) 01:30
- Track
- 5
- Title
- No. 4. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Double Chorus)
- Duration
- 01:30
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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6 No. 6. Now finale to the shore (Chorus) 03:48
- Track
- 6
- Title
- No. 6. Now finale to the shore (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:48
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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7 No. 1. A song of the setting sun! (Chorus) 03:24
- Track
- 7
- Title
- No. 1. A song of the setting sun! (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:24
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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8 No. 2. Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone) 04:46
- Track
- 8
- Title
- No. 2. Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone)
- Duration
- 04:46
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Performer
- Sally Burgess, Bryn Terfel
- Ensemble
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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9 No. 3. Pale amber sunlight fails (Chorus) 04:26
- Track
- 9
- Title
- No. 3. Pale amber sunlight fails (Chorus)
- Duration
- 04:26
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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10 No. 4. Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart! (Mezzo-Soprano) 03:42
- Track
- 10
- Title
- No. 4. Exceeding sorrow consumeth my sad heart! (Mezzo-Soprano)
- Duration
- 03:42
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Performer
- Sally Burgess
- Ensemble
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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11 No. 5. By the sad waters of separation (Baritone) 04:48
- Track
- 11
- Title
- No. 5. By the sad waters of separation (Baritone)
- Duration
- 04:48
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Performer
- Bryn Terfel
- Ensemble
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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12 No. 6. See how the trees and osiers lithe (Chorus) 03:34
- Track
- 12
- Title
- No. 6. See how the trees and osiers lithe (Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:34
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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13 No. 7. I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (Baritone) 04:45
- Track
- 13
- Title
- No. 7. I was not sorrowful, I could not weep (Baritone)
- Duration
- 04:45
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Performer
- Bryn Terfel
- Ensemble
- Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox
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14 No. 8. They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Chorus) 03:27
- Track
- 14
- Title
- No. 8. They are not long, the weeping and the laughter (Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, Chorus)
- Duration
- 03:27
- Composer
- Frederick Delius
- Performer
- Sally Burgess, Bryn Terfel
- Ensemble
- Waynflete Singers, Southern Voices, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Richard Hickox