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Love’s Minstrels | Analekta AN29967

Love’s Minstrels

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Label: Analekta

Cat No: AN29967

Barcode: 0774204996727

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 23rd June 2014

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About

Under the Analekta label, charismatic bass-baritone Philippe Sly takes us back to an era which may not be so distant in time (the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th), but that is light years away from our own century and points of reference.

Here is 'Love’s Minstrels', the third album from this talented young man with a rich and strong voice. Philippe Sly, with all the sensitivity and intriguing power of his exceptional voice, delivers 21 songs frozen between two eras. He is accompanied on the piano by the amazing Michael McMahon, the partner of choice for some of the best Canadian singers.

The album brings together five composers whose works praise the legacy of the sometimes near, sometimes distant past. These works passionately bring to mind bucolic England, when British and Western history is making its way into a thriving new world.

There are works by Ralph Vaughan William (1872-1958), based on poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), a six-poem cycle, and three ballads by John Ireland (1879-1953), based on the writings of John Masefield (1878-1967), poems that exalt the beauty of the landscapes and the dramatic lives of sailors.

There are also five poems by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), set to music by Roger Quilter (1877-1953), a composer whose songs are largely inspired by England's well-known musical heritage, as well as four songs by the British composer who emigrated to Canada, Healey Willan (1880-1968), based on well-known poems, including one of the most often cited poems in English literature, Drink to me only with thine eyes.

Also on the program, three songs that have evolved in the incantatory and contemplative sphere of Vedic hymns, a tradition that goes back to the 15th century B.C. - works by Gustav Holst (1874-1934).

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