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Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense / Williams, Way, West
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Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense / Williams, Way, West

$20.99

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Composer
STANFORD, CHARLES VILLIERS
Artist
Williams, Way, West
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Jan 22, 2021
Catalog #
SOMMCD 0627
UPC
748871062726

About

SOMM RECORDINGS announces a major new recording of songs by Charles Villiers Stanford including the first complete recording of Songs of Faith and 12 first recordings of other distinctively vital songs. Songs of Love, Faith and Nonsense continues SOMM’s widely acclaimed commitment to Stanford’s music with baritone Roderick Williams, tenor James Way (making his SOMM debut) and pianist Andrew West throwing revealing new light on his gift for word setting and the variety of his responses to matters of emotional ardor, spiritual fervency and the sublime nonsense poems of Edward Lear. Setting poems by Tennyson and Walt Whitman, Songs of Faith demonstrates Stanford’s ability to give unique expression to the profound and the arcane with music of dramatic force and harmonic ingenuity. Three songs by Robert Bridges (librettist for Stanford’s oratorio Eden) and four songs from the opera Shamus O’Brien tap into Stanford’s Irish roots to colorful and evocative effect. Composed to mark his 25th wedding anniversary and receiving its first recording, The Triumph of Love sets five sonnets by his close cousin, Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes, in richly executed settings. The delightful Nonsense Rhymes taken from Edward Lear’s inimitably playful, poignant and pointed limericks show a different side to Stanford, a “highly articulate, dry humor like many literary Irishmen of his era”, as Jeremy Dibble says in his authoritative booklet notes.

Tracklist 33 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Strong son of God 01:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Strong son of God
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  2. 2 No. 2. God and the universe 04:06
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. God and the universe
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  3. 3 No. 3. Faith 02:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Faith
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  4. 4 No. 4. To the Soul 04:04
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. To the Soul
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  5. 5 No. 5. Tears 04:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Tears
    Duration
    04:26
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  6. 6 No. 6. Joy, Shipmate, Joy! 01:52
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  7. 7 No. 1. Since thou, O fondest and truest 02:24
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Since thou, O fondest and truest
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  8. 8 No. 2. I praise the tender flower 02:24
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. I praise the tender flower
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  9. 9 No. 3. Say, O say! saith the music 02:43
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Say, O say! saith the music
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  10. 10 Act II Scene 1: My heart is thrall to Kitty's beauty 03:49
    Track
    10
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: My heart is thrall to Kitty's beauty
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  11. 11 Act II Scene 1: Glengall: Oh! yer honour, don't be hard 02:31
    Track
    11
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: Glengall: Oh! yer honour, don't be hard
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  12. 12 Act II Scene 1: Ochone! When I used to be young! 02:51
    Track
    12
    Title
    Act II Scene 1: Ochone! When I used to be young!
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  13. 13 Act II Scene 2: I love my ould Ireland 02:03
    Track
    13
    Title
    Act II Scene 2: I love my ould Ireland
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  14. 14 No. 1. The Hardy Norsewoman 00:53
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 1. The Hardy Norsewoman
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  15. 15 No. 2. The Compleat Virtuoso 01:12
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 2. The Compleat Virtuoso
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  16. 16 No. 3. The Absent Barber 04:09
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 3. The Absent Barber
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  17. 17 No. 4. The Cow and the Coward 01:35
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 4. The Cow and the Coward
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  18. 18 No. 5. Barkerolle (performance 1) 00:56
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 5. Barkerolle (performance 1)
    Duration
    00:56
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  19. 19 No. 6. Dithyramb 01:27
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 6. Dithyramb
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  20. 20 No. 7. The Generous Parishioner 02:06
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 7. The Generous Parishioner
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  21. 21 No. 8. Limmerich ohne Worte 00:52
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 8. Limmerich ohne Worte
    Duration
    00:52
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Andrew West
  22. 22 No. 9. The Boat Song 01:46
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 9. The Boat Song
    Duration
    01:46
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  23. 23 No. 10. Nileinsamkeit 01:22
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 10. Nileinsamkeit
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  24. 24 No. 11. The Aquiline Snub 01:43
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 11. The Aquiline Snub
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  25. 25 No. 12. Tone Poem 01:34
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 12. Tone Poem
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  26. 26 No. 13. Gongdichtung 02:48
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 13. Gongdichtung
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  27. 27 No. 14. A Visit of Elizabeth 01:37
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 14. A Visit of Elizabeth
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West
  28. 28 Sonnet 37: O one deep sacred outlet of my soul 02:24
    Track
    28
    Title
    Sonnet 37: O one deep sacred outlet of my soul
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  29. 29 Sonnet 48: Like as the thrush in winter 03:11
    Track
    29
    Title
    Sonnet 48: Like as the thrush in winter
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  30. 30 Sonnet 63: When in the solemn stillness of the night 04:20
    Track
    30
    Title
    Sonnet 63: When in the solemn stillness of the night
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  31. 31 Sonnet 5: I think that we were children 03:20
    Track
    31
    Title
    Sonnet 5: I think that we were children
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  32. 32 Sonnet 22: O flames of passion 02:33
    Track
    32
    Title
    Sonnet 22: O flames of passion
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    James Way, Andrew West
  33. 33 Nonsense Rhymes: No. 5. Barkerolle (performance 2) 00:59
    Track
    33
    Title
    Nonsense Rhymes: No. 5. Barkerolle (performance 2)
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Andrew West