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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Robert Helps in BerlinChamber Music with Piano
Robert Helps (piano) Spectrum Concerrts Berlin & Atos Trio This recording is an exploration of Robert Helps’s ‘subtle sound world’ (ClassicsToday.com on Naxos 8559199), and his shared history with Spectrum Concerts Berlin. Highly regarded as a ‘musician’s musician’, Helps is featured as both composer and pianist. Postlude is suffused with an atmosphere of reminiscence, and the flow of ‘endless melody’ in the Piano Quartet is comparable to Scriabin. Associations with the Second Viennese School are heard in the poetic Quintet and the virtuoso Fantasy, while the two Piano Trios mark the stylistic boundaries of his career. Helps’s Shall We Dance for piano (CD 2, Track 12) was among his last recordings. | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Barlow, S: | If thou would’st ease thine heart | Bridge: | Come to Me in my Dreams Love went a-riding | Britten: | Down by the Salley Gardens Wild with passion (Beddoes) | Butterworth, G: | With rue my heart is laden When I was one-and-twenty | Dowland: | Awake, sweet love Come again, sweet love doth now invite | Finzi: | To Lizbie Browne I Said to Love, Op. 19b | Handel: | Silent Worship (based on an aria from Tolomeo) Semele: Where'er you walk | Haydn: | Piercing Eyes, Hob. XXVIa:35 Pleasing Pain, Hob. XXVIa:29 | Ireland: | If we must part Love is a sickness full of woes | Purcell: | I attempt from love's sickness to fly in vain (from The Indian Queen) If music be the food of love, Z379 | Quilter: | Go, lovely Rose, Op. 24 No. 3 (Edmund Wailer) Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley) | Vaughan Williams: | Silent Noon Love bade me welcome | Warlock: | Take, O take those lips away Thou gav'st me leave to kiss |
This excellent release is a unique collection of English love songs by some of the great English composers of the 20th century including Vaughan-Williams, Purcell, Britten, Dowland, Finzi and Warlock. All of the songs are firm favourites; amongst the most well known are Silent worship, Where’er you walk, If music be the food of love and The salley gardens. Mark Stone has sung at Covent Garden most recently in “Don Giovanni” and is a regular guest at ENO, WNO, Glyndebourne and Opera North. He and Stephen Barlow regularly perform together as a recital duo and often appear on Radio 3 and in concert in the UK and abroad. “..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance and colour to make this a very interesting and fulfilling programme, one which is well recorded.” International Record Review, March 2009 “Stone has made an estimable career as a lyric baritone at Opera North and English National Opera, but he is less familiar as a recitalist. His light, airy baritone is well suited to the more easy-going English love songs, but takes on a nasal, pinched quality when a sense of drama is required, as in Frank Bridge’s galloping Love went a-riding. This attractive miscellaneous programme might have made a stronger impression if the order of songs were not so haphazard: Vaughan Williams (Silent Noon and Love bade me welcome) segues uncomfortably into Dowland’s Awake, sweet love, and Purcell, Handel and Haydn are interspersed pell-mell between Quilter and Ireland, Butterworth and Warlock, Finzu and Britten. Stone’s theme and sequence are too loose to be compelling and his diction, mostly clear, rarely achieves the eloquence of a born song interpreter.” Sunday Times, 15th February 2009 *** | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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3 CDs for price of 2 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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