Somervell: A Shropshire Lad & Maud / Williams, Allan

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
May 15, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SOMERVELL, SIR ARTHUR
    • PERFORMER
      Williams, Allan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 15, 2020
    • UPC
      748871061521
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0615
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I hate the dreadful hollow

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    2. A voice by the cedar tree

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    3. She came to the village church

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    4. O let the solid ground

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    5. Birds in the high Hall-garden

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    6. Maud has a garden

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    7. Go not, happy day

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    8. I have led her home

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    9. Come into the garden, Maud

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    10. The fault was mine

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    11. Dead, long dead

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    12. O that 'twere possible

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    13. My life has crept so long

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    14. A Kingdom by the Sea

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    15. Loveliest of trees

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    16. When I was one-and-twenty

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    17. There pass the careless people

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    18. In Summertime on Bredon

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    19. The street sounds to the soldiers' tread

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    20. On the idle hill of summer

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    21. White in the moon

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    22. Think no more, lad

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    23. Into my heart an air that kills

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    24. The lads in their hundreds

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    25. Shepherd's Cradle Song

      Composer: Arthur Somervell

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan


SOMM Recordings announces an important new recording of two classic English song cycles by Sir Arthur Somervell – Maud and A Shropshire Lad – from the acclaimed partnership of baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan. Hailed as “the English Schumann” for his mastery of song setting, song cycles in particular, Somervell’s music is marked by a distinctive blend of lyricism and harmony that makes itself indelibly felt in these two seminal works of the English song repertoire. His first cycle, Maud, setting 13 poems from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s dark monodrama, was first performed in 1899 at the height of a fashion for recitals of songs sung in English. An intense, impassioned portrayal of infatuation, it is marked by remarkably eloquent and revealing relationships between voice and text, and voice and piano. Composed in 1904, the 10 poems from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad portray a young man wistfully contemplating nature, life and love at the age of 20 before following him through a life full of incident, the horror of the First World War and growing self-awareness. It prompted from Somervell texturally rich and varied music shot through with an aching lyricism all the more powerful and potent for its folk song-like simplicity and directness. Completing the recital are the enchanting, ever-popular lullaby Shepherd’s Cradle Song and wistful tale of childhood sweethearts with texts by Edgar Allan Poe, A Kingdom by the Sea. British music authority Jeremy Dibble provides informative booklet notes and Roderick Williams a revealing take on Somervell’s music from a singer’s perspective.