Balfour Gardiner: The Complete Songs

Solidly located in the English pastoral tradition, these songs by Balfour Gardiner are always personable, if rarely sharply interesting, though the Goethe setting The Wanderer's Evenson is one... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Sep 2014
Catalogue No: REGCD450
Label: Regent

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Gardiner, H B: The Stranger’s (or Hangman’s) Song

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: When I was one and twenty

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: The Wanderer’s Evensong

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Roadways

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: The Golden Vanity

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Music When Soft Voices Die

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: The Recruit

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Prelude De Profundis

piano solo
Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: The Banks of Calm Bendemeer

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Three Shakespeare Settings

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: On Chelsea Embankment

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Cavalier

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: A Sailors’ Piece

piano solo
Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Rybbesdale

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: The Quiet Garden

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Ah, Sweet those Eyes

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: How Sweet I roamed

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Dirge ‘Rough wind that moanest loud’

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Lightly we met in the morn

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: D’un Vanneur du Blé aux Vents

Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

Gardiner, H B: Shepherd Fennel's Dance

piano solo
Martin Oxenham (baritone) & Jonathan Beatty (piano)

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The complete songs of Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950) represents a major contribution to the discography of English song recordings.

Balfour Gardiner is well-known to lovers of English church music as the composer of Evening Hymn (Te lucis ante terminum). Very little of his other music is known, and even less recorded.

In what is the first recording of the complete Balfour Gardiner songs, baritone Martin Oxenham is joined by pianist Jonathan Beatty, who also contributes three solo piano items. The scores of the unpublished works were made available for the recording by kind permission of Balfour Gardiner’s great-nephew, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

These beautifully-crafted miniatures will be a revelation to enthusiasts of English song.

All first recordings, except track 18 As a versatile and busy oratorio soloist, Martin Oxenham has performed at most of the major concert venues in the UK, as well as at festivals in Britain and abroad, appearing with with the City of London Sinfonia, RPO, London Mozart Players, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Hanover Band. TV appearances include in the highly acclaimed Jonathan Miller staging of Bach's St Matthew Passion and in the People's Passion with Jessye Norman, shown on BBC1. He has previously recorded two CDs of English song for the Meridian label which have received critical acclaim.

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January 2015

Solidly located in the English pastoral tradition, these songs by Balfour Gardiner are always personable, if rarely sharply interesting, though the Goethe setting The Wanderer's Evenson is one exception.

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