My True Love Hath My Heart: English Songs

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

They create a sense of isolation within the sadness of King David; they capture Ireland's responses to the poetry of Hardy, Sidney and Symons with total commitment; and they respond with sentience... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Sep 2011
Catalogue No: CHAN10691
Label: Chandos
Length: 62 minutes

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

This release includes a digital booklet

Chandos - Downloads at MP3 Prices

Special offer ends: 22/05/2024

Britten: O Waly, Waly

Work length3:44

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Britten: Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, "Moore's Irish Melodies": III. How sweet the answer

Work length1:51

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Britten: Corpus Christi Carol. After A Boy Was Born, Op. 3.: Variation V

Work length2:43

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Britten: Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": IV. Early one morning

Work length2:29

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Howells: A Garland for de la Mare: King David

Work length5:15

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Howells: Come Sing And Dance: Come Sing and Dance

Work length3:58

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Ireland: Three Songs: II. Her Song

Work length2:45

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Ireland: Two Songs

Work length5:20

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

II. My true love hath my heart

Track length1:57

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

I. Tryst

Track length3:23

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Gurney: 5 Elizabethan Songs: IV. Sleep

Work length3:04

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Gurney: By a Bierside: By A Bierside

Work length4:21

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Howells: Gavotte

Work length3:37

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Howells: Lost Love

Work length4:01

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Head, M: More Songs of the Countryside: IV. Foxgloves

Work length3:39

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Warlock: The First Mercy

Work length2:51

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Head, M: Three Cotswold Songs: Cotswold Love

Work length2:38

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

Bennett, R R: A History of The Dansant

Work length10:30

$3.00

$3.90

$5.25

Dame Sarah Connolly, Malcolm Martineau

I. Foxtrot. Vivo

Track length2:26

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

II. Slow Foxtrot. Allegretto con eleganza

Track length3:47

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Tango. Tempo giusto e ritmico

Track length4:17

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

About
Reviews
Explore

About

Sarah Connolly received excellent reviews for her recital performance of ‘English Songs’ on 11 April 2011 at the Alice Tully Hall in New York. The New York Times wrote: ‘Ms Connolly’s voice was strong and steady through its range, velvety, but with a soft, subtle graininess that gave weight and presence to even her most ethereal floated notes.’

Here the mezzo-soprano, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau on piano, performs four arrangements by Benjamin Britten: three folk songs and one song from an early choral work. These complement the recent Britten CD on Chandos, on which Connolly performs the cantata Phaedra as well as A Charm of Lullabies (CHAN 10671).

Next come eleven songs from the 1920s, which is considered the golden decade for English art songs. Among the highlights are By a Bierside, Ivor Gurney’s stark reflection on death, written in the World War I trenches, and Herbert Howells’s King David which has long been considered a masterpiece. Howells himself said: ‘I am prouder to have written King David than almost anything else of mine.’

The most recent contribution to this disc of English Songs is the surreally retro A History of the Thé Dansant by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, which was published in 1995.

Reviews

December 2011

They create a sense of isolation within the sadness of King David; they capture Ireland's responses to the poetry of Hardy, Sidney and Symons with total commitment; and they respond with sentience to Gurney's uniquely eloquent feeling for the inflections of the English language in two of his classic songs

December 2011

her sense of drama is never overstated. She excels, therefore, in capturing the masculine melancholy of Britten's lullabies and Bennett's brittle, unpredictable scenes from a long marriage. Martineau responds throughout with characteristically flawless, subtle and intuitive accompaniment.

30th October 2011

It is good to find an English singer in her prime championing the lesser-known art songs of her native tradition, and making them sound not so much twee as magical: listen to Connolly’s artless handling of Britten’s “Corpus Christi Carol”, the quiet rapture she finds in Howells’s “Kind David”, the fun she has with the Foxtrot from Richard Rodney Bennett’s “History of Thé Dansant”.

January 2012

Connolly sings immaculately, with impeccably sensitive accompaniment from Malcolm Martineau, in sound both clear and perfectly balanced.

16th October 2011

Her singing is consistently beautiful in this programme of English songs

27th October 2011

One of today’s most intelligent musical mezzo-sopranos, Sarah Connolly is in gloriously fluent and expressive voice for an imaginatively programmed selection of mid 20th-century English song...Malcolm Martineau’s accompaniment is exemplary in its sensitivity.

Offer,My True Love Hath My Heart: English Songs

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue