Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense: including First Recordings

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[The Three Songs of Robert Bridges] include some of the simpler and more appealing settings, with Roderick Williams’s lucid tone, straightforward manner and ability to match words and notes helping... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Jan 2021
Catalogue No: SOMMCD0627
Label: Somm
Length: 78 minutes

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Stanford: Songs of Faith, Op 97

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano)

No. 1, Strong Son of God

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No. 2, God and the Universe

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No. 3, Faith

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Stanford: Songs of Faith, Op. 97, Set 2

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano)

No. 4, To the Soul

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No. 5, Tears!

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No. 6, Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

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Stanford: Songs (3) of Robert Bridges, Op. 43

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Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano)

No. 1, Since Thou, O Fondest and Truest

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No. 2, I Praise the Tender Flower

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No. 3, Say, O Say! Saith the Music

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Stanford: Songs (4) from Shamus O' Brien, Op. 61

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James Way (tenor), Andrew West (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone)

My Heart Is Thrall

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Glengall

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Ochone, When I Used to Be Young

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I Love My Ould Ireland

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Stanford: Nonsense Rhymes

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James Way (tenor), Andrew West (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone)

No. 1, The Hardy Norsewoman, Op. 365

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No. 2, The Compleat Virtuoso, Op. 366

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No. 3, The Absent Barber, Op. 367

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No. 4, The Cow and the Coward, Op. 368

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No. 5, Barkerolle, Op. 369 (1)

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No. 6, Dithyramb, Op. 370

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No. 7, The Generous Parishioner, Op. 371

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No. 8, Limmerich ohne Worte, Op. 372

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No. 9, Boat Song, Op. 373

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No. 10, Nileinsamkeit, Op. 374

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No. 11, The Aquiline Snub, Op. 375

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No. 12, Tone Poem, Op. 376

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No 13, Gongdichtung, Op. 377

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No. 14, A Visit of Elizabeth, Op. 378

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Stanford: The Triumph of Love, Op. 82

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James Way (tenor), Andrew West (piano)

No. 1, O One Deep Sacred Outlet of My Soul

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No. 2, Like as the Thrush in Winter

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No. 3, When in the Solemn Stillness of the Night

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No. 4, I Think That We Were Children

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No. 5, O Flames of Passion

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Stanford: Nonsense Rhymes

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No. 5, Barkerolle, Op. 369 (2)

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SOMM RECORDINGS announces a major new recording of songs by Charles Villiers Stanford including the first complete recording of Songs of Faith and first recordings of other distinctively vital songs.

Songs of Love, Faith and Nonsense continues SOMM’s widely acclaimed commitment to Stanford’s music with baritone Roderick Williams, tenor James Way (making his SOMM debut) and pianist Andrew West throwing revealing new light on his gift for word setting and the variety of

his responses to matters of emotional ardour, spiritual fervency and the sublime nonsense poems of Edward Lear.

Setting poems by Tennyson and Walt Whitman, Songs of Faith demonstrates Stanford’s ability to give unique expression to the profound and the arcane with music of dramatic force and harmonic ingenuity.

Three songs by Robert Bridges (librettist for Stanford’s oratorio Eden) and four songs from the opera Shamus O’Brien tap into Stanford’s Irish roots to colourful and evocative effect.

Composed to mark his 25th wedding anniversary, The Triumph of Love sets five sonnets by his close cousin, Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes, in richly executed settings.

The delightful Nonsense Rhymes taken from Edward Lear’s inimitably playful, poignant and pointed limericks show a different side to Stanford, a “highly articulate, dry humour like many literary Irishmen of his era”, as Jeremy Dibble says in his authoritative booklet notes.

SOMM’s previous Stanford recordings include the recently released String Quintets (SOMMCD 0623) and the complete, three-volume String Quartets (SOMMCD 0160, 0185, 0607) with the Dante Quartet praised by Gramophone for their “ardent, alert and thoroughly lived-in performances”, and Partsongs with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir and Paul Spicer (SOMMCD 0128) which Limelight described as “excellent…beautifully sung”.

SOMM’s world premiere recording of The Travelling Companion (SOMMCD274-2) was hailed “a landmark” by Gramophone.

Reviews

March 2021

[The Three Songs of Robert Bridges] include some of the simpler and more appealing settings, with Roderick Williams’s lucid tone, straightforward manner and ability to match words and notes helping him realise effortlessly sincere and sympathetic performances...Despite the mixed quality of individual songs, tenor James Way gives The Triumph of Love eloquence and sweep...Fine playing throughout from pianist Andrew West, and impressive sound.

September/October 2021

The Songs of Faith is the first complete recording of this cycle. Williams brings his wealth of experience here; he is in his mid-50s, and is highly effective. Williams’s wonderful diction helps convey his subtle and varied singing...the singing is marvelous from both soloists, and Andrew West on the piano matches the differing moods to perfection as well as catching the humor.

May 2021

A hugely enjoyable anthology, and prospective purchasers can rest assured that production values and presentation leave nothing to be desired.

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