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Silence & Music / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort

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Composer
BRITTEN ELGAR MACMILLAN
Artist
Gabrieli Consort, Mccreesh
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
Oct 06, 2017
Catalog #
SIGCD490
UPC
635212049020

About

This programme explores that vast twentieth-century secular English choral repertoire which goes under the generic title ‘partsongs’. It is an extraordinarily rich repertoire to which almost all the famous composers contributed. Buried amongst vast quantities of slightly twee pastoralism – the much-derided “cow-pat” school – are to be found many settings of glorious poetry, forming a corpus of sublime twentieth-century madrigals at least as fine as their famous renaissance forebears. However, this programme has another particular theme: how poets and composers reflect upon the natural world as a metaphor for our own emotional experience. At the heart of this programme is the complex relationship between man and nature, the bitter-sweetness of a radiant and beautiful dawn creating the same unbearable sadness of a ravishing song, and both with intimations of mortality.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 The Blue Bird 03:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    The Blue Bird
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  2. 2 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1. There Is Sweet Music 04:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1. There Is Sweet Music
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  3. 3 Silence and Music 05:18
    Track
    3
    Title
    Silence and Music
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  4. 4 The Summer Is Coming 07:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    The Summer Is Coming
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Herbert Howells
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  5. 5 Brigg Fair 02:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Brigg Fair
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Robert Murray
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  6. 6 Bushes and Briars 02:10
    Track
    6
    Title
    Bushes and Briars
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  7. 7 The Winter Is Gone 01:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    The Winter Is Gone
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  8. 8 The Turtle Dove 02:58
    Track
    8
    Title
    The Turtle Dove
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Neal Davies
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  9. 9 The Gallant Weaver 06:11
    Track
    9
    Title
    The Gallant Weaver
    Duration
    06:11
    Composer
    James MacMillan
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  10. 10 Who Killed Cock Robin 08:15
    Track
    10
    Title
    Who Killed Cock Robin
    Duration
    08:15
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  11. 11 The Three Ravens 04:30
    Track
    11
    Title
    The Three Ravens
    Duration
    04:30
    Composer
    Percy Grainger
    Performer
    Neal Davies, Timothy Roberts
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  12. 12 5 Flower Songs, Op. 47: No. 4. The Evening Primrose 03:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    5 Flower Songs, Op. 47: No. 4. The Evening Primrose
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  13. 13 3 Dirges of John Webster: No. 1. All the Flowers of the Spring 06:23
    Track
    13
    Title
    3 Dirges of John Webster: No. 1. All the Flowers of the Spring
    Duration
    06:23
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  14. 14 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 4. Owls, an Epitaph 03:38
    Track
    14
    Title
    4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 4. Owls, an Epitaph
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Edward Elgar
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh
  15. 15 Rest 04:15
    Track
    15
    Title
    Rest
    Duration
    04:15
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ensemble
    Gabrieli Consort
    Conductor
    Paul McCreesh