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Moeran - Complete Solo Songs | Chandos CHAN105962

Moeran - Complete Solo Songs

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Label: Chandos

Cat No: CHAN105962

Barcode: 0095115159620

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 26th April 2010

Contents

About

Ernest John Moeran was the last major representative of the group of English composers who, in the first two decades of the twentieth century, sought musical inspiration in the melodic beauty of traditional folksong. The emotional and spiritual legacy of his dual Anglo-Irish nationality is in tangible evidence throughout his life and music. A pupil of John Ireland and friend of Peter Warlock, he composed music which displays the influences of Delius, Vaughan Williams and, of course, his love of landscape.   

Chandos here presents a unique album of his attractive complete solo song catalogue, many of which are premiere recordings. The release commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

Moeran wrote sixty original songs for solo voice and piano, including the settings of texts by James Joyce, Robert Bridges, Shakespeare and W B Yeats. His most famous songs are his settings of the works of A E Housman, with texts from Ludlow Town and A Shropshire Lad.

Contents:
CD 1
- Spring goeth all in white
- When June is come
- Mantle of Blue
- Twilight
- Ludlow Town
- Two Songs
- In Youth is Pleasure
- The Merry Month of May
- A Dream of Death
- Come Away, Death
- Troll the Bowl
- Can't You Dance the Polka!
- Mrs Dyer, the Baby Farmer
- Maltworms
- Seven Poems by James Joyce


CD 2
- When I came last to Ludlow
- 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town
- Far in a western brookland
- Loveliest of trees
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain (first version)
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain (second version)
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain (third version)
- Weep you no more
- The Sweet o' the Year
- The Day of Palms
- Blue-eyed Spring
- Rosefrail
- Tilly
- Rahoon
- Four English Lyrics
- Four Shakespeare Songs
- Diaphenia
- Rosaline
- The Monk's Fancy
- Invitation in Autumn
- If There Be Any Gods
- Six Poems of Seumas O'Sullivan

Total Time: 68:32

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