Ian Venables: Love Lives Beyond the Tomb

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A highly reflective, mournful set of songs and cycles interpreted with dramatic flair by Bevan and Clayton. Venables’s intuitive vocal writing is fraught with emotion. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st May 2020
Catalogue No: SIGCD617
Label: Signum
Length: 78 minutes

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Venables, I: The Way Through, Op. 33 No. 1

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)

Venables, I: Aurelia, Op. 37 No. 3

Work length3:19

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)

Venables, I: Chamber Music No. 3, Op. 41 No. 6

Work length4:49

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)

Venables, I: Love Lives Beyond the Tomb, Op. 37 No. 1

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)

Venables, I: It rains, Op. 33a

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)

Venables, I: I Caught the Changes of the Year, Op. 45

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano)

Venables, I: Remember This, Op. 40

Work length30:47

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Graham J Lloyd (piano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor)
Carducci Quartet

I. Think of the Failing Body

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In the Swirl of Its Pool

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III. Think of the Flower-Lit Coffin

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IV. In the Grip of Their Season

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V. Think of the Standard and Its Blaze

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VI. On the Crest of Their Downs

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VII. Think of the Buried Body Laid

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VIII. In the Eyes of Our Minds

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Venables, I: Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46

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Eoin Schmidt-Martin, Graham J Lloyd (piano), Allan Clayton (tenor)

I. The Send-Off

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II. Procrastination

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III. Through These Pale Cold Days

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IV. Suicide in the Trenches

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V. If You Forget

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Ian Venables studied composition with Richard Arnell at Trinity College of Music, London and later with John Joubert, Andrew Downes and John Mayer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. His works encompass many genres and he has added significantly to the canon of English art song. Described as “Britain’s greatest living composer of art song” (Musical Opinion) and “a song composer as fine as Finzi and Gurney” (BBC Music Magazine), Ian Venables has written over 80 works in this genre, including nine song-cycles.

As the title suggests, 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.

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July 2020

A highly reflective, mournful set of songs and cycles interpreted with dramatic flair by Bevan and Clayton. Venables’s intuitive vocal writing is fraught with emotion.

July 2020

He is a very fine composer of songs, with a real feel for poetry, and can spin sympathetic vocal lines for his singers...Remember This is the most striking work on the disc, a 30-minute setting of Motion’s poem that is itself split into an aria-and-recitative structure which allows Venables to treat it as something of a cantata.

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