From a city window: Songs by Hubert Parry

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Superb singing combines with Iain Burnside's eloquent handling of Parry's piano textures. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jan 2013
Catalogue No: DCD34117
Label: Delphian
Length: 72 minutes

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Parry: Good Night

Work length2:32

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: To Lucasta, on going to the wars

Work length1:45

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Sleep

Work length2:41

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Where shall the Lover Rest

Work length4:48

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: What part of dread eternity

Work length4:16

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Julia

Work length1:11

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: From a city window

Work length2:45

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: My Heart is like a Singing Bird

Work length2:10

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Looking backward

Work length3:17

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Proud Maisie

Work length1:58

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: The Faithful Lover

Work length3:16

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Bright Star

Work length3:51

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Crabbed Age and Youth

Work length2:24

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Nightfall in winter

Work length4:14

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano), William Dazeley (baritone)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Grapes

Work length1:03

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano), William Dazeley (baritone)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: O never say that I was false of heart

Work length2:41

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Dirge in woods

Work length2:32

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: A Girl to her Glass

Work length1:57

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: There

Work length3:01

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: O Mistress Mine

Work length1:31

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Whence

Work length2:11

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Willow, willow

Work length2:20

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: And yet I love her till I die

Work length2:51

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Lay a garland on my hearse

Work length2:22

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: Armida's Garden

Work length2:18

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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: If thou would'st ease thine heart

Work length3:19

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William Dazeley (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

Parry: A Welsh lullaby

Work length3:11

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Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 22-24 May 2012
Recording Venue: Music Room of Highnam Court, Gloucester, UK

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As English song came into full flower at the turn of the 20th century, Parry's substantial contribution to the genre became somewhat buried. Iain Burnside and his singers rediscover what has been forgotten by historical accident. Combining an innately English sensibility with a technical fastidiousness that owes much to the lieder of Brahms, Schumann and Wolf, every one of these songs demonstrates Parry's fundamental concern for sincerity and proper declamation of the words.

Hubert Parry is undergoing something of a revival, and these performances return his songs to the heart of his output, where the composer always felt they belonged.

Ailish Tynan was a Vilar Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, a BBC New Generation Artist and won the Rosenblatt Recital Prize at the 2003 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competion. Susan Bickley is firmly established as one of the most accomplished mezzo sopranos of her generation. In May 2011 she received the prestigious Singer Award at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, the highest recognition for live classical music in the UK. William Dazeley won the 1989 Kathleen Ferrier Prize. He has appeared with many of the world's important opera houses and worked with many leading conductors and orchestras. Iain Burnside is the well-known pianist and broadcaster, with a reputation forged on his commitment to the song repertoire and his collaborations with leading international singers.

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June 2013

Superb singing combines with Iain Burnside's eloquent handling of Parry's piano textures.

April 2013

The emotional range of these songs, almost faultlessly conceived in terms of textual rhythm, reminds us of just how expert a song-writer and pioneer of the English art Parry was...Full of subtle vocal nuance, excellent diction and discerning accompaniment, the performances are exquisite.

28th January 2014

The performances are excellent. All three singers do very well by Parry...As ever, Iain Burnside is an immaculate and excellent accompanist...Admirers of Parry will need no urging to add this disc to their collection but others who are interested in English song should investigate it too; I fancy they may be pleasantly surprised.

20th January 2013

This release testifies to the rare talent of a composer still to be adequately recognised...There could surely be no finer champions of this art than the singers heard here.

26th January 2013

Among the 27 songs here, fastidiously set to texts from Shakespeare to Scott, are some well-known gems. But many more are revelations. Recorded in Parry’s boyhood home near Gloucester, Ailish Tynan, Susan Bickley and William Dazeley sing them with ardour and sensibility, and Iain Burnside’s piano accompaniments are full of subtle insight.

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