Little Wanderer - Nick Pritchard - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

‘Little Wanderer’, from William Blake’s dream world, seemed the perfect title for an album in which we are surrounded by myriad landscapes in songs by Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Daniel Kidane. Since meeting on our first day at the Royal College of Music, we have long enjoyed programming Britten’s masterful folk song reimaginings, and we adore the texts and music in his powerful Hardy cycle, Winter Words. It has been a joy to discover songs by Imogen Holst, Britten’s close friend and assistant, and we are proud to be able to make the first recording of Dan’s Songs of Illumination, commissioned for us by Leeds Lieder in 2018. For over a decade, song in English has played a major part in our musical lives and performing relationship, and we are delighted to present this programme together.

Tracklist

1. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 1, At Day-Close In November
2. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 2, Midnight On the Great Western
3. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 3, Wagtail and Baby
4. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 4, the Little Old Table
5. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 5, the Choirmaster's Burial
6. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 6, Proud Songsters
7. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 7, At the Railway Station, Upway
8. Winter Words, Op. 52: No. 8, Before Life and After
9. 4 Songs: No. 1, Brittle Beauty
10. 4 Songs: No. 2, Why Fearest Thou Thy Outward Foe?
11. 4 Songs: No. 3, Shall I Thus Ever Long?
12. 4 Songs: No. 4, As Lawrell Leaves
13. Little Think St Thou
14. Weathers
15. Songs of Illumination: No. 1, a Dream
16. Songs of Illumination: No. 2, the Land of Dreams
17. Songs of Illumination: No. 3, the Little Black Boy
18. Sally In Our Alley
19. The Ploughboy
20. The Last Rose of Summer
21. How Sweet the Answer
22. Ca the Yowes
23. Oliver Cromwell

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland