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The English Song Series Volume 21 - Ian Venables

Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano), with Richard Hosford (clarinet)

Awards:

[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound...Andrew Kennedy is...

The English Song Series Volume 21 - Ian Venables

Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano), with Richard Hosford (clarinet)

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[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound...Andrew Kennedy is...

About

Ian Venables is one of Britain’s foremost composers of art-song, and has a significant catalogue of vocal and chamber music to his credit.

Writing tonal music in a warm lyric vein, he has a rare gift of being able to ‘locate’ himself, believably, in a different period and absorb from it, both musically and poetically, all its fundamental beauty, while also producing works of astonishing freshness, naturalness and originality.

On the Wings of Love are settings by non-English poets, while Love’s Voice sets Venetian poetry by J. A. Symonds.

All his songs are sincere expressions of a love of poetry, combined with a profound understanding of musical and poetic tradition.

“A singer of wide, lustrous tone and striking dramatic prowess” The Times on Andrew Kennedy

Contents and tracklist

I. Ionian Song
Track length4:42
II. The Moon Sails Out
Track length2:31
III. Sonnet XI
Track length6:09
IV. Epitaph
Track length2:47
V. When you Are Old
Track length6:50
I. Fortunate Isles
Track length3:15
II. The Passing Stranger
Track length3:23
III. The Invitation to the Gondola
Track length4:05
IV. Love's Voice
Track length4:37
A Kiss, Op. 15
Track length3:57

Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    December 2010
    Choral & Song Choice

December 2010

[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound...Andrew Kennedy is the expressive, articulate tenor, and pianist Iain Burnside the outstanding accompanist.

April 2013

Venables’ music does seem to me to breathe a definite air of Englishness, even when he is not setting texts by English writers...The standard of performance on both discs is uniformly high with Andrew Kennedy in particular proving to be an expressive and committed advocate for Ian Venables’ songs.

25th November 2010

Andrew Kennedy sings both cycles with great attention to their musical and verbal detail

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