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

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Label: SOMM Recordings
Release Date: January 22, 2021

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

STANFORD, CHARLES VILLIERS
PERFORMER

Williams, Way, West

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

January 22, 2021
UPC

748871062726
CATALOG NUMBER

SOMMCD 0627
LABEL

SOMM Recordings
NUMBER OF DISCS

1
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

No. 1. Strong son of God

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 2. God and the universe

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 3. Faith

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 4. To the Soul

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 5. Tears

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 6. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 1. Since thou, O fondest and truest

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 2. I praise the tender flower

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 3. Say, O say! saith the music

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
Act II Scene 1: My heart is thrall to Kitty's beauty

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Act II Scene 1: Glengall: Oh! yer honour, don't be hard

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Act II Scene 1: Ochone! When I used to be young!

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
Act II Scene 2: I love my ould Ireland

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 1. The Hardy Norsewoman

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
No. 2. The Compleat Virtuoso

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 3. The Absent Barber

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 4. The Cow and the Coward

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 5. Barkerolle (performance 1)

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 6. Dithyramb

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 7. The Generous Parishioner

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 8. Limmerich ohne Worte

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Andrew West
No. 9. The Boat Song

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
No. 10. Nileinsamkeit

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 11. The Aquiline Snub

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
No. 12. Tone Poem

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
No. 13. Gongdichtung

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
No. 14. A Visit of Elizabeth

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West
Sonnet 37: O one deep sacred outlet of my soul

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Sonnet 48: Like as the thrush in winter

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Sonnet 63: When in the solemn stillness of the night

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Sonnet 5: I think that we were children

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Sonnet 22: O flames of passion

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: James Way, Andrew West
Nonsense Rhymes: No. 5. Barkerolle (performance 2)

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Performer: Roderick Williams, Andrew West

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.