Composer: Ivor Bertie Gurney
Performer: Susan Bickley, Iain Burnside
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8572151
Release: 2009
Size: 245 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
A Fourth Volume of 10 Songs
01. On the Downs
02. Ha’nacker Mill
03. The Bonny Earl of Murray
04. The cherry trees
05. By a bierside
Five Elizabethan Songs
06 .No. 1. Orpheus with his lute
07. No. 2. Tears
08. No. 3. Under the greenwood tree
09. No. 4. Sleep
10. No. 5. Spring
7 Sappho Songs
11. The Apple Orchard
12. All night under the moon
13. The Latmian Shepherd
14. I will go with my father a-ploughing
15. Last hours
16. Cathleen ni Houlihan
17. A cradle song
18. The Fiddler of Dooney
A Third Volume of 10 Songs
19. Snow
20. The Singer
21. Nine of the clock
22. Epitaph in Old Mode
23. The ship
24. The Scribe
25. Fain would I change that note
26. An Epitaph
20 Songs, Vol. 1
27. When Death to either shall come
28. Thou didst delight my eyes
29. The boat is chafing
Lights out
30. No. 4. Lights Out
Described by his teacher, Stanford, as “the one who most fulfilled the accepted ideas of genius”, the poet and composer Ivor Gurney composed more than 300 songs despite suffering from bipolar disorder and tuberculosis.
The Five Elizabethan Songs show the young composer’s astonishing limpid fluency, while Tears and Sleep rank among his most exquisite creations.
Comedy, heavenly rapture, tender urgency and lovelorn longing all touch the music of this ‘lover and maker of beauty’, whose songs find ideal interpreters in Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside.
“Susan Bickley’s sensitivity and vocal allure confirming her among the finest mezzos of her generation” Classical Source