Songs by Sir Hamilton Harty / Rudge, Flynn

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
July 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HARTY, SIR HAMILTON
    • PERFORMER
      Rudge, Glynn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 03, 2020
    • UPC
      748871061620
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0616
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Sea Wrack

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    2. Scythe Song

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    3. No. 2. My Lagan Love

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    4. No. 1. The Blue Hills of Antrim

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    5. Arlequin et Colombine, Op. 10

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Christopher Glynn, Kathryn Rudge

    6. A Cradle Song

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    7. The Song of Glen Dun

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    8. 3 Flower Songs, Op. 13: No. 2. Mignonette

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    9. 6 Songs of Ireland: No. 6. At Sea

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    10. The Fiddler of Dooney

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    11. 3 Sea Prayers: No. 1. To the Gods of Harbour and Headland

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    12. 3 Irish Folk Songs: No. 1. The Lowlands of Holland

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    13. By the Bivouac's Fitful Flam

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    14. 6 Songs of Ireland: No. 1. Dreaming

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    15. The Stranger's Grave

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    16. Idyll, Op. 10

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Christopher Glynn, Kathryn Rudge

    17. 3 Flower Songs, Op. 13: No. 1. Poppies

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    18. 6 Songs of Ireland: No. 5. Flame in the Skies of Sunset

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    19. Lane o' the Thrushes

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    20. 6 Songs of Ireland: No. 3. A Lullaby

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    21. My Thoughts of You

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    22. Your Hand in Mine

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    23. 5 Irish Poems: No. 2. At Easter

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    24. Come, O Come, My Life's Delight

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn

    25. A dieu, Sweet Amaryllis (after J. Dowland)

      Composer: Hamilton Harty

      Performer: Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn


SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce 17 world premiere recordings of Songs by Hamilton Harty in a ravishing recital by one of today’s most exciting young partnerships – mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and pianist Christopher Glynn. Although best known today as a composer of orchestral music, Hamilton Harty was also one of the most accomplished accompanists of his generation, forming especially notable partnerships with the sopranos Agnes Nicholls and Elsie Swinton. It prompted, in turn, his increasing activity as an accomplished song writer. The 23 featured songs include settings that speak eloquently of Harty’s abiding engagement with his Irish heritage and point, in the technical demands made of vocalist and pianist alike, to his innate understanding of the song form in all its concentrated, emotional power. Favourite Harty songs such as Sea Wrack, The Blue Hills of Antrim and My Lagan Love are heard alongside settings of Walt Whitman (By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame), Thomas Campion (Come, O Come, My Heart’s Delight) and two texts by the composer himself (My Thoughts of You and Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis). Also included are two early, unpublished works for solo piano – Idyll and Arlequin and Columbine. Five songs are heard in new editions created from original manuscripts by British music authority Jeremy Dibble who also provides informative booklet notes.