With Harmony of Soul & Song: Songs by Parry

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Williams breathes rich life into this selection of light and romantic songs that overshadow a world premiere recording of the drearier Three Odes of Anacreon. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 26th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: EMRCD053
Label: EM Records
Length: 65 minutes

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Parry: Away, away, you men of rules

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Paula Fan, Jeremy Huw Williams

Parry: Fill me, boy, as deep a draught

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Parry: Golden hues of life are fled

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Parry: Good Night

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Parry: Take, o take those lips away

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Parry: To Lucasta

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Parry: If thou would'st ease thine heart

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Parry: To Althea

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Parry: Why so pale and wan

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Parry: Weep you no more

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Parry: Proud Maisie

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Parry: Lay a Garland

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Parry: A Welsh lullaby

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Parry: When comes my Gwen

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Parry: And yet I love her till I die

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Parry: Love is a bable

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Parry: Under the greenwood tree

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Parry: On a time the amorous Silvy

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Parry: Ye little birds that sit and sing

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Parry: Sonnet 109 (O! Never Say That I Was False of Heart)

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Parry: Sleep

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Parry: Nightfall in winter

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Parry: Dirge in woods

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Parry: Grapes

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Parry: Armida's Garden

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Parry: Dream Pedlary

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Nestled amidst the large-scale musical works that define the accepted view of Hubert Parry as religious patriot are numerous songs that demonstrate the composer's longstanding love of poetry, as well as his mastery of detail that brings the words to life. Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan bring these beautiful songs to life on this engaging album from EM Records.

"My father was the most naturally unconventional man I have known. He was a Radical with a very strong bias against Conservatism.", wrote Parry's daughter Dolly some thirty years after his death, in hopes that "the extraordinary misinterpretation of him "the extraordinary misinterpretation of him that exists should not persist." Nonetheless, the image of Parry as a landed pillar of the establishment, the composer of such stalwarts of the repertoire as Jerusalem and I was glad, has remained fixed in the minds of most listeners. Only in the twenty years preceding the centenary of his death has light been shed on the contradictions between his musical and personal life, as reflected in his considerable body of work.

Parry turned to song throughout his life, beginning form his days at Eton in the 1860s to the year of his death in 1918. With Harmony of Soul and Song (EMRCD053), a new recording of Parry's songs by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan, commemorates the centenary of the composer's death, by tracing the composer's journey from some of his earliest efforts at song- Three Odes of Anacreon, in a World Première recording- through his various returns to the genre over the course of more than half a century.

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October 2018

Williams breathes rich life into this selection of light and romantic songs that overshadow a world premiere recording of the drearier Three Odes of Anacreon.

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