Romantic Residues: Songs for tenor and harp

…an interesting and intelligent singer, well served by his distinguished accompanists. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2008
Catalogue No: CDA67725
Label: Hyperion
Length: 65 minutes

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Roth, A: From California

5:46

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Jaime Martín (flute), Alison Nicholls (harp)

Roth, A: Romantic Residues

22:16

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

I. Round and Round

2:02

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II. Protocols

1:33

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III. A Style of Loving

2:39

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IV. Across

2:58

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V. Mistaken

1:01

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VI. Equals

3:01

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VII. Sit

1:04

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VIII. The Room and the Street

3:31

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IX. Walk

4:27

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anon.: The salley gardens

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

anon.: O waly, waly

3:46

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

anon.: Bugeilio'r gwenith gwyn (Watching the wheat)

2:31

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

Owen, D: David of the White Rock

2:59

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

Skempton: Three Songs for Jennie

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

I. The Triumph of Love LIII

1:18

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II. The Syllables of Summer Birds

1:18

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III. From far, from eve and morning

1:31

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Fauré: Morceau de concours

3:19

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Jaime Martín (flute), Alison Nicholls (harp)

Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques

8:22

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

I. Le réveil de la mariée

1:21

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II. Là-bas, vers l'église

1:48

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III. Quel galant m'est comparable?

0:48

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IV. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques

3:17

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V. Tout gai!

1:08

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Caplet: Quand reverrai-je, hélas!

1:06

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

Caplet: Sonnet: Doux fut le trait

2:44

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp)

Saint-Saëns: Une flûte invisible

2:12

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp), Jaime Martín (flute)

Tournier: La Lettre du jardinier

3:58

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James Gilchrist (tenor)

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James Gilchrist is one of the finest British tenors of today, acclaimed as a concert soloist, a recitalist and a recording artist, each latest event eliciting more rapturous comments from critics and audience alike. In his first solo disc for Hyperion, he features in a fascinating recital of English, French and American music for tenor, harp and flute.

What do we remember of our past romantic encounters? This is the theme of ‘Romantic Residues’, the opening section of Vikram Seth’s collection of verse All You Who Sleep Tonight, first published in 1990. There are nine poems in all, varying widely in content and mood—from the light and whimsical to the melancholy and dark. The songs were commissioned by the Bury St Edmunds Festival and composed for James Gilchrist and Alison Nicholls who gave the first performance. This charming, impeccably-performed collection of morceaux and mélodies also includes works by Britten, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Fauré.

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August 2008

…an interesting and intelligent singer, well served by his distinguished accompanists.

10th August 2008

James Gilchrist is one of the most expressive tenors of the day, his timbre soft-grained, his diction immaculate, his lack of mannerism gratifying and his choice of repertory, on this disc of songs and song cycles with harp, interesting.

[Gilchrist] is now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence

8th August 2008

Repeated hearings may harm the artful simplicity of the title cycle by Alec Roth, but the Britten folk-song settings should never die. If Gilchrist’s French is too muscular overall, he tiptoes delicately through the final song by Marcel Tournier.

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