Parry: 12 Sets of English Lyrics, Vol. 3

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
November 16, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PARRY, HUBERT
    • PERFORMER
      Fox, Williams, West
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 16, 2018
    • UPC
      748871227224
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 272
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1. My heart is like a singing bird

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    2. No. 4. The Blackbird

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    3. No. 6. If I might ride on puissant wing

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    4. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 3. A moment of farewell

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    5. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 7. The sound of hidden music

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    6. English Lyrics, Set 3: No. 5. Through the ivory gate

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    7. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 2. Nightfall in winter

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    8. English Lyrics, Set 7: No. 6. Sleep

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    9. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 1. When the dew is falling

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    10. No. 1. Thine eyes still shined for me

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    11. No. 2. When lovers meet again

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    12. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 4. A lover's garland

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    13. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 5. The faithful lover

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    14. No. 1. A stray nymph of Dian

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    15. No. 6. A girl to her class

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    16. English Lyrics, Set 12: No. 4. When the sun's great orb

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    17. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 1. One golden thread

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    18. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 1. Whence

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    19. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 5. At the hour the long day ends

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    20. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 5. Looking backward

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    21. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 8. She is my love beyond all thought

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    22. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 5. From a city window

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    23. English Lyrics, Set 11: No. 3. The spirit of the spring

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

    24. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 4. The child and the twilight

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew West

    25. English Lyrics, Set 8: No. 6. Grapes

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West


SOMM Recordings' historic, enthusiastically reviewed survey of Sir Hubert Parry's 12 Sets of English Lyrics reaches it's end with a third revelatory volume. Volume III features pianist Andrew West and baritone Roderick Williams (both heard on Volumes I and II) and the return of soprano Sarah Fox (who appeared on Volume II). Composed between 1874 and shortly before Parry's death in 1918, the English Lyrics come from a time of immense change as old certainties gave way to new complexity and a global war that would utterly change Britain's standing in the world. Parry's riposte was the English Lyrics: a defiant assertion that English poetry was the equal of Germany's Lied and French mélodies and arguably created the template for the development of the emerging English art-song. The texts of many of the 25 songs - including some of his finest - on this recording carry deeply personal meanings for Parry, his response to them as varied as mood dictates and all realized with consummate insight and craftsmanship. Settings of AP Graves, Julia Chatterton and Julian Sturgis are to the fore, although lyrics by Herbert Warner and the American poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Langdon Elwyn Mitchell are also to be heard in a spell- binding conclusion to an acclaimed series. Parry's only setting of Christina Rossetti, 'My heart is like a singing bird,' is delightfully effusive, 'When the Sun's Great Orb,' Wagner-like in it's imagining of the end of days, 'The child and the twilight' vividly full of night-time fears. Reviewing Volume I, BBC Music Magazine praised the "many pleasurable moments in this richly enjoyable album" with Classical Ear summing it up as being "In a word: blissful". Of Volume II, Robert Hugill applauded "this enterprising and illuminating survey", while MusicWeb International said: "Lovers of English songs, and Parry in particular, should be in their element with this satisfying album on Somm".