Orr, C W: Into my heart an air that kills

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A E Housman - A Shropshire Lad

A E Housman - A Shropshire Lad

Complete in verse and song

A E Housman's A Shropshire Lad, read by Alan Bates, plus songs based on the poems:

Barber, S:

With rue my heart is laden, Op. 2 No. 2

Berkeley, L:

Because I liked you better

He would not stay for me

Butterworth, G:

A Shropshire Lad - six songs

When the lad for longing sighs

Bredon Hill 'In summertime on Bredon'

On the idle hill of summer

Horder:

White in the moon the long road lies

Ireland:

The Heart’s desire

Goal and wicket

The Encounter

The Lent Lily

The vain desire

Hawthorne Time

You smile upon your friend today

Moeran:

Oh fair enough are sky and plain

Far in a western brookland

Orr, C W:

Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers

When I watch the living meet

This time of year

Into my heart an air that kills

The Isle of Portland

Hughley Steeple

Alan Bates (reader), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano)

At least fifty composers - and not all English - have set poems from Housman's nostalgic and prophetic 'A Shropshire Lad', published in 1896 and never out of print since that date. It has been said that, worldwide, there are at least 160 song-cycles based on the 60 or so poems. Some of them have been set many times (there are at least ten settings of 'Loveliest of trees') but, surprisingly, many have never been set at all. This two-CD set (for the price of one), reissued from CDA66471/2, for the first time presents the whole of the 'Shropshire Lad' in sequence, with the un-set poems read by Alan Bates. The songs, sung by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, include the well-known and much loved settings by George Butterworth.

Hyperion Song Recitals Dyads - CDD22044

(CD - 2 discs)

$16.50

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The Complete C W Orr Songbook Volume 2

The Complete C W Orr Songbook Volume 2

Orr, C W:

With rue my heart is laden

This time of year

Oh, when I was in love with you

Is my team ploughing?

On your midnight pallet lying

Plucking the rushes

Bahnhofstrasse

Requiem

The time of roses

Since thou, O fondest and truest

Hymn before sleep

While summer on is sleeping

The lads in their hundreds

The Isle of Portland

1887

In valleys green and still

Into my heart an air that kills

Westward on the high-hilled plains

Oh see how thick the goldcup flowers

Mark Stone (baritone) & Simon Lepper (piano)

This release completes the 2 CD series which is the first ever complete recording of C W Orr’s songs for voice and piano. It includes 14 premiere recordings. Orr is considered to be one of the greatest English song composers of the 20th century.

“here is a situation where the quality of the music really does make its obscurity hard to understand...the composer's searching imagination, technical precision and sure self-knowledge all denote a striking talent...Stone and Lepper's interpretations are superb and memorable from start to finish - a situation that in turns says much about the strength of the music itself.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 ****

“The variety of Orr's settings is remarkable, although many of them have an underlying air of melancholy or nostalgia...Stone, the excellent baritone who has planned and sings this comprehensive recital so impressively, is obviously thoroughly at home in this repertoire...I recommend these two discs strongly to all lovers of English song and even more to singers” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012

“Fans of English song should be grateful to Stone and Lepper for their efforts to make this music better known.” The Guardian, 23rd August 2012 ***

Stone Records - 5060192780192

(CD)

$17.50

(also available to download from $10.50)

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