Composer: Walter Arlen
Performer: Anna Huntley, Gwilym Bowen, Thomas Mole
Orchestra: English Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Kenneth Woods
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Catalogue: SIGCD879
Release: 2024
Size: 964 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
The Song of Songs
01. No. 1, What is that coming?
02. No. 2, Behold, you are beautiful
03. No. 3, Oh, that he, that he would kiss
04. No. 4, Very Dark am I
05. No. 5, If you know not
06. No. 6, While the king
07. No. 7, As an apple tree
08. No. 8, See there he comes
09. No. 9, Arise my beautiful Shepherdess
10. No. 10, Upon my bed at night
11. No. 11, Oh my dove
12. No. 12, Postlude
The Poet In Exile
13. No. 1, Incantation
14. No. 2, Island
15. No. 3, In Music
16. No. 4, For J.L.
17. No. 5, Recovery
Arlen was a Jewish composer, originally from Austria who escaped Hitler’s invasion into Vienna. His family was persecuted, and lots of his family were murdered or committed suicide as a result of the holocaust, which inspired a lot of his compositional writing. When he escaped to the US where he lived with family friends, Arlen entered songs in a competition, winning first prize. This allowed him to live, study and work as amanuensis with Roy Harris. Through Harris he was introduced to famous composers of the day (such as Schoenberg, Mahler etc) and wrote for the Los Angeles Times as music reviewer for many years before committing to his own compositional works, both of whom have had additions made by conductor Kenneth Woods, with Arlen’s permission.