New from Chandos, already released in the United Kingdom and soon to be released in the United States, is an album of English songs, My True Love Hath My Heart, performed by Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano, and Malcolm Martineau, piano.
September 29, 2011
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Bejun Mehta and Julius Drake
Down by the Salley Gardens, a new CD of English songs performed by Bejun Mehta, countertenor, and Julius Drake, piano, was released today at amazon.co.uk.
Tracks
1 Howells: King David
2 Quilter: It was a lover and his lass
3 Gurney: Down by the salley gardens
4 Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
5 Britten: Lord, what is man?
6 Britten: Job’s Curse
7 Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
8 Quilter: Come away, death
9 Quilter: O mistress mine
10 Quilter: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
11 Finzi: At Middle-Field Gate in February
12 Howells: The Widow Bird
13 Berkeley: The Horseman
14 Howells: The Little Boy Lost
15 Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
16 Vaughan Williams: Bright is the ring of words
17 Finzi: The Sigh
18 Warlock: Jillian of Berry
19 Hely-Hutchinson: Set in the manner of Handel
20 Quilter: Take, o take those lips away
21 Finzi: Since we loved
22 Quilter: Hey, ho, the wind and the rain
23 Tippett: Music for a while
Philippe Jaroussky sings Pie, Jesu
Philippe Jaroussky sings Pie Jesu, from the Fauré Requiem. EMI has released a new recording of the work, with Philippe Jaroussky and Matthias Goerne as the vocal solists.
Philippe Jaroussky is “breathtakingly angelic,” writes Andy Gill for independent.co.uk, 9 September 2011.
