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Throughout Gritton is musically purposeful… while Martyn Brabbins and the BBC players do a fine job. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2009
Catalogue No: CDLX7228
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 68 minutes

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Elgar: The Torch, Op. 60, No. 1

Work length2:34

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Elgar: The wind at dawn

Work length3:08

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Elgar: Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1

Work length2:46

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Elgar: Like to the Damask Rose

Work length3:49

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Elgar: The Shepherd's Song, Op. 16, No. 1

Work length2:50

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Elgar: Three Songs, Op. 59

Work length7:25

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BBC Concert Orchestra

O Soft Was the Song

Track length1:49

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Was it Some Golden Star?

Track length2:35

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Twilight

Track length3:01

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Elgar: There are Seven That Pull the Thread, 'Granis and Diarmid', Op. 42

Work length2:47

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Elgar: The Sun Goeth Down, 'The Kingdom', Op. 51

Work length8:33

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Gritton, E: O Stay, Madonna

Work length4:12

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Parry: Guenever's Soliloquy, 'Guenever', Act 1, Scene 4

Work length4:20

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BBC Concert Orchestra

John Sanders: Evening on Severn No. 4, 'Gloustershire Visions'

Work length5:04

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Ireland: Five Songs for Sporano & Orchestra

Work length12:15

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Love and Friendship

Track length2:06

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My True Love Hath My Heart

Track length1:56

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The Trellis

Track length3:07

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Adoration

Track length2:55

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I Have Twelve Oxen

Track length2:11

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Ireland: Five Songs for Sporano & Strings

Work length8:35

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BBC Concert Orchestra

The Salley Gardens

Track length2:29

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The Heart's Desire

Track length2:14

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Baby

Track length1:18

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Her Song

Track length2:34

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Susan Gritton’s solo recital with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins is focussed on orchestral songs by Elgar and John Ireland, varied with delightful solo items by Susan’s grandfather Eric Gritton, by John Sanders, and an aria from Parry’s opera ‘Guenever’, here orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble. This is an enchanting and pioneering survey, with ten Elgar orchestral songs ringingly presented and crowned by Susan Gritton’s affecting reading of The Sun Goeth Down from ‘The Kingdom’. This is the first time so substantial a survey of Elgar’s orchestral songs has been presented in one programme. The song by Eric Gritton, O Stay, Madonna, is a ripe example of lyrical Edwardiana and contrasts nicely with John Sanders’ atmospherically floated Evening on Severn, and Parry’s affecting but stoutly written aria for Queen Guenever facing death at the stake. In contrast there are two groups of John Ireland songs, nine in all, each especially eloquent when heard with orchestral accompaniment. They include the title song Her Song of 1925, which makes a touching lyrical foil to Elgar’s exuberance.

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October 2009

Throughout Gritton is musically purposeful… while Martyn Brabbins and the BBC players do a fine job.

January 2010

…performances are all one could hope for. Susan Gritton brings resplendent tone and intelligent observation to the task in hand, and she receives bright-eyed sensitive support from the BBC Concert Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.

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