Love Lives Beyond The ... - Ian Venables - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

New and older compositions by Venables -“Britain’s greatest living composer of art song”- recorded for the first time here on Signum. The works on this disc are predominantly reflective in mood, although this does not preclude the use of faster-moving music whenever the poetry requires it. Its subject matter celebrates the timelessness of love through the poetry of James Joyce, John Drinkwater, Edward Thomas, John Clare, Robert Nichols and the modern poet Jennifer Andrews; the celebration and commemoration of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, in Sir Andrew Motion’s remarkable narrative poem Remember This and the collective remembrance of those who died in the First World War: the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy and the less well-known Francis St. Vincent Morris providing the impetus for one of Ian Venables’ most dramatic and profoundly moving cycles.

Tracklist

1. Six Songs, Op. 33 - I. the Way Through
2. Three Songs, Op. 37 - Iii. Aurelia
3. Eight Songs, Op. 41 - Vi. Chamber Music Iii
4. Three Songs, Op. 37 - I. Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
5. Six Songs, Op. 33 - Ii. It Rains
6. I Caught the Changes of the Year, Op. 45
7. Remember This, Op. 40 - I. Think of the Failing Body
8. Remember This, Op. 40 - Ii. In the Swirl of Its Pool
9. Remember This, Op. 40 - Iii. Think of the Flower-Lit Coffin
10. Remember This, Op. 40 - Iv. In the Grip of Their Season
11. Remember This, Op. 40 - V. Think of the Standard and Its
12. Remember This, Op. 40 - Vi. On the Crest of Their Downs
13. Remember This, Op. 40 - Vii. Think of the Buried Body La
14. Remember This, Op. 40 - Viii. In the Eyes of Our Minds
15. Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46 - I. the Send-Off
16. Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46 - Ii. Procrastination
17. Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46 - Iii. Through These Pa
18. Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46 - Iv. Suicide In the Tr
19. Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46 - V. If You Forget

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

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