Silence & Music / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
October 6, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN ELGAR MACMILLAN
    • PERFORMER
      Gabrieli Consort, Mccreesh
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 06, 2017
    • UPC
      635212049020
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD490
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. The Blue Bird

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    2. 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 1. There Is Sweet Music

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    3. Silence and Music

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    4. The Summer Is Coming

      Composer: Herbert Howells

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    5. Brigg Fair

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Performer: Robert Murray

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    6. Bushes and Briars

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    7. The Winter Is Gone

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    8. The Turtle Dove

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Performer: Neal Davies

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    9. The Gallant Weaver

      Composer: James MacMillan

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    10. Who Killed Cock Robin

      Composer: Jonathan Dove

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    11. The Three Ravens

      Composer: Percy Grainger

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Performer: Neal Davies, Timothy Roberts

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    12. 5 Flower Songs, Op. 47: No. 4. The Evening Primrose

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    13. 3 Dirges of John Webster: No. 1. All the Flowers of the Spring

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    14. 4 Choral Songs, Op. 53: No. 4. Owls, an Epitaph

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh

    15. Rest

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort

      Conductor: Paul McCreesh


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.