This page lists all recordings of Ca’ the yowes, by Benjamin Britten (1913-77) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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Daniel Norman (tenor) & Christopher Gould (piano) This Britten recital combines two of the composer’s major song cycles, Winter Words, from 1953, and Who are these Children? (1969). In them he explored themes of loneliness, transcience and war – difficult and harrowing material which would test any composer, but Britten is equal to the challenge. His music works its magic by bringing out poignant emotions and subtle insights, sometimes even more vividly than the texts on their own. The music’s emotional depth is grounded in compelling, quasi-naturalistic sound images, such as the whistling, rattling train in the setting of Thomas Hardy’s Midnight on the Great Western. Providing a lighter note between these gripping works are four settings of poems by Robert Burns, containing some of Britten’s most deft and delicate music. Composed on the request of Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, they originally formed part of a set of six songs for high voice and harp, and were later arranged for piano by Britten’s assistant Colin Matthews. “The tenor's affinity or Britten shines through in this promising solo debut. His clear, precisely focused tenor can soften, even sweeten… He is sensitive to musical and verbal implications, both bold and delicate in narrative, enters into the fun of a song... and is good at his Scots.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 | 
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Andrew Swait (treble), James Bowman (counter tenor) & Andrew Plant (piano) "I was particularly keen to make this CD as I wanted a newer record of my treble voice: it has changed
significantly since my previous recordings as a chorister. I also wished to promote items which are not
normally associated with the standard treble repertoire.Through my association with Andrew Plant,The
Britten-Pears Foundation generously supported the creation of the recording and allowed me the immense
privilege of recording unpublished works by Britten, therefore greatly increasing the documental importance
of this CD... Mr Bowman's voice had been one of the first I had heard in recordings and live concerts. Later,
as a chorister, I was lucky enough to sing with him when he was a soloist in performances of Messiah and the
St John Passion.The chance to work with him made the prospect of the disc better than I could have
imagined." Andrew Swait “The voice of experience meets the voice of youth in this album contrasting the voices of Bowman, a countertenor, and Swait, a boy chorister.
Swait's voice is clear, bright and tuned with innate precision, ringing with carefree but studious childhood. Appealingly, he focuses on the mechanics of his singing, maintaining a childish ignorance of the full tragedy of Britten's Little Sir William. Bowman is the uncle, worldly and artistic, duetting with restraint and phrasing with a characteristic elegance and expressivity that Swait duly and sensibly mimics. The pianist Andrew Plant accompanies with sensitivity.” The Times, 12th July 2008 *** |
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