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The tenor's affinity or Britten shines through in this promising solo debut. His clear, precisely focused tenor can soften, even sweeten… He is sensitive to musical and verbal implications,... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2008
Catalogue No: BISCD1510
Label: BIS
Length: 67 minutes

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Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52

Work length17:48

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1, At Day-close in November

Track length2:44

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No. 2, Midnight on the Great Western

Track length1:20

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No. 3, Wagtail and Baby

Track length0:57

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No. 4, The Little Old Table

Track length2:45

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No. 5, The Choirmaster's Burial

Track length0:57

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No. 6, Proud Songsters

Track length1:38

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No. 7, At the Railway Station, Upway

Track length5:16

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No. 8, Before Life and After

Track length2:11

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Britten: A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92

Work length10:04

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 5, Afton Water (Arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano)

Track length1:30

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No. 3, Wee Willie Gray (Arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano)

Track length4:10

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No. 6, The Winter (Arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano)

Track length1:19

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No. 4, My Hoggie (Arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano)

Track length3:05

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Britten: Who are these children?, Op. 84

Work length22:58

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1, A Riddle (the Earth)

Track length3:43

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No. 2, A Laddie's Sang

Track length2:34

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No. 3, Nightmare

Track length0:52

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No. 4, Black Day

Track length3:17

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No. 5, Bed-time

Track length2:08

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No. 6, Slaughter

Track length1:24

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No. 7, A Riddle (the Child You Were)

Track length1:15

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No. 8, The Lark Lad

Track length2:47

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No. 9, Who Are these Children?

Track length0:41

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No. 10, Supper

Track length1:27

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No. 11, The Children

Track length1:51

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No. 12, The Auld Aik

Track length0:59

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Britten: If it's ever Spring again (Hardy)

Work length0:41

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Britten: Dawtie’s Devotion

Work length2:29

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Britten: The Gully

Work length1:35

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Britten: The Children and Sir Nameless

Work length5:27

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Britten: Tradition

Work length2:11

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Britten: Folksongs Volume 5: British Isles · Folk Songs

Work length4:42

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Daniel Norman, Christopher Gould
Recorded: August 2005
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Ca' the yowes

Track length4:42

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This Britten recital combines two of the composer’s major song cycles, Winter Words, from 1953, and Who are these Children? (1969). In them he explored themes of loneliness, transcience and war – difficult and harrowing material which would test any composer, but Britten is equal to the challenge. His music works its magic by bringing out poignant emotions and subtle insights, sometimes even more vividly than the texts on their own. The music’s emotional depth is grounded in compelling, quasi-naturalistic sound images, such as the whistling, rattling train in the setting of Thomas Hardy’s Midnight on the Great Western. Providing a lighter note between these gripping works are four settings of poems by Robert Burns, containing some of Britten’s most deft and delicate music. Composed on the request of Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, they originally formed part of a set of six songs for high voice and harp, and were later arranged for piano by Britten’s assistant Colin Matthews.

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October 2008

The tenor's affinity or Britten shines through in this promising solo debut. His clear, precisely focused tenor can soften, even sweeten… He is sensitive to musical and verbal implications, both bold and delicate in narrative, enters into the fun of a song... and is good at his Scots.

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