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On This Shining Night: Songs for Voice and String Quartet | Somm SOMMCD0654

On This Shining Night: Songs for Voice and String Quartet

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Label: Somm

Cat No: SOMMCD0654

Barcode: 0748871065420

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 17th June 2022

Contents

Artists

Roderick Williams (baritone)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Coull Quartet

Works

Barber, Samuel

Dover Beach, op.3
Songs (3), op.10
» no.2 Sleep Now (arr. Roderick Williams)
Songs (4), op.13
» no.3 Sure on this shining night (arr. Roderick Williams)

Beamish, Sally

Tree Carols

Delius, Frederick

I-Brasil (arr. Roderick Williams)
Songs (7) from the Norwegian
» no.3 Twilight Fancies (arr. Roderick Williams)
» no.4 Young Venevil (arr. Roderick Williams)

Warlock, Peter

A Sad Song
Chopcherry
Corpus Christi
Mourn no moe
My Lady is a pretty one
My Little Sweet Darling
My gostly fader
Sleep
Sorrow's Lullaby
Take, O take those lips away
The Fairest May

Artists

Roderick Williams (baritone)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
Coull Quartet

About

SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce a thrilling first collaboration between long-time SOMM stablemates, baritone Roderick Williams and the Coull Quartet, joined by tenor James Gilchrist and soprano Sophie Bevan.

With six first recordings, On This Shining Night is a ravishing recital focusing revealingly on a 20th-century phenomenon: works for voice and string quartet. It takes its title from a James Agate setting by Samuel Barber (whose masterly Dover Beach is also heard), here in a sublime arrangement by Roderick Williams.

Williams also provides arrangements of Barber’s Sleep Now and three Frederick Delius pieces from his Seven Songs from the Norwegian: the evocative Twilight Fancies, vivacious Young Venevil and exotic I-Brasil.

They serve, as Robert Matthew-Walker’s erudite booklet notes observe, as companions to 11 songs by Delius’s close friend and associate, Peter Warlock, including the gentle intimacy of Corpus Christi, the “mini-cantata” Sorrow’s Lullaby, and unique free-recitative of My gostly vader.

Composed for Williams and the Coull Quartet, Sally Beamish’s five-part Tree Carols offer striking, variegated settings of poems by Fiona Sampson in their premiere recording.

Roderick Williams’s SOMM catalogue include the acclaimed three-volume Twelve Sets of English Lyrics by Hubert Parry (SOMMCD257, 270, 272), Sally Beamish’s Four Songs from Hafez (Birdsong, SOMMCD0633), and the classic English song cycles A Shropshire Lad and Maud (SOMMCD0615), which MusicWeb International declared a “game changer… in terms of our appreciation of Arthur Somervell’s songs”.

The Coull Quartet has recorded a wide repertoire for SOMM. Their recording of Nicholas Maw and Benjamin Britten quartets (SOMMCD065) was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and a BBC Music Magazine Benchmark Recording. Gramophone declared their recent SOMM release with Clélia Iruzun, Treasures from the New World, featuring piano quintets by Amy Beach and Henrique Oswald (SOMMCD0609), “a delight”.

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