Partsongs by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

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The energy and abandon [Spicer] gets from his young singers is impressive, stretching the emotional canvas of these miniatures with an unexpectedly mature sound. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0128
Label: Somm
Length: 75 minutes

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Stanford: On Time

Work length5:40

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Stanford: 4 Part-Songs, Op. 110

Work length2:42

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 Part-Songs, Op. 110: No. 4. Heraclitus

Track length2:42

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Stanford: To Chloris

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Stanford: 6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 1, Op. 49

Work length2:32

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 2. Corydon, arise!

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Stanford: Part-songs (8), Op. 119

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

8 Partsongs, Op. 119: No. 6. The Swallow

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Stanford: 6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 2, Op. 53

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

No. 3. Praised be Diana

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No. 2. Like desert woods

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Stanford: 4 Part Songs, Op. 106

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 Part Songs, Op. 106: No. 3. To his flocks

Track length2:29

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6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 2, Op. 53

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Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 2, Op. 53: No. 1. On a hill there grows a flower

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8 Partsongs, Op. 119

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Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

8 Partsongs, Op. 119: No. 3. The blue bird

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Stanford: 6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 3, Op. 67

Work length1:22

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 3, Op. 67: No. 3. Shall we go dance?

Track length1:22

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Stanford: 8 Partsongs, Op. 127

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

8 Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 3. When Mary thro' the garden went

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6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 1, Op. 49

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Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

6 Elizabethan Pastorales, Set 1, Op. 49: No. 3. Diaphenia

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8 Partsongs, Op. 127

Work length3:24

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Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

8 Partsongs, Op. 127: No. 4. The Haven

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Stanford: 3 Part-Songs, Op. 111

Work length2:24

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 Part-Songs, Op. 111: No. 1. A Lover's Ditty

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Stanford: Songs of Faith, Op. 97: No. 2. God and the Universe

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Stanford: Peace, come away

Work length3:17

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 Part-Songs, Op. 110

Work length4:09

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Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 Part-Songs, Op. 110: No. 2. Dirge

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Stanford: Out in the windy West

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Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Paul Spicer
Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

8 Partsongs, Op. 119

Work length14:13

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Recorded: 24-25 June 2012
Recording Venue: Church of St. Alban the Martyr, Highalte, Birmingham, United Kingdom

No. 1. The Witch

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No. 2. Farewell, my Joy

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No. 4. The Train

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No. 5. The Inkbottle

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No. 7. Chillingham

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No. 8. My heart in Thine

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It seems a paradox that over the years we have gone to such great lengths to become familiar with the music of Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan-Willliams, John Ireland, Frank Bridge and Arthur Bliss and yet we still know far less of the music of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, their composition teacher at the Royal College of Music! There is no doubt however, that Stanford was a considerable composer in his own right. He was not only at ease with large musical structures - nine operas, seven symphonies, ten concertos, six Irish rhapsodies, four masses and eight string quartets among others, are ample witness - but he was also gifted in writing musical miniatures and his songs, some of which we have already covered (SOMM214 - A Century of English Song Vol. 2 - Sarah Leonard, Malcolm Martineau), have charm, lyricism and a sensitivity to the rhythm of words.

There has been renewed interest in the music of Stanford recently and with the kind support of the Stanford Society, SOMM now turns the spotlight on Stanford's Partsongs in the second of a series of recordings with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir who has achieved an enviable reputation under the direction of Paul Spicer, in recent years.

The eight Partsongs Opus 119 set to poems by Mary Coleridge - including the glorious Bluebird - appear on CD as a complete set for the very first time. Our recording also includes ten Songs which are first recordings.

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December 2013

The energy and abandon [Spicer] gets from his young singers is impressive, stretching the emotional canvas of these miniatures with an unexpectedly mature sound.

Partsongs by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

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