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Britten: Complete Scottish Songs

Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp) & David Owen Norris (piano)

Britten: Complete Scottish Songs
The Scottish tenor has matured into one of our finest artists with time's passing, musically astute, vocally impressive and a generous communicator...the intense beauty of Wilde's lyric voice...

Classic FM Magazine, October 20114 out of 5 stars

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Britten: Complete Scottish Songs

Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp) & David Owen Norris (piano)

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The Scottish tenor has matured into one of our finest artists with time's passing, musically astute, vocally impressive and a generous communicator...the intense beauty of Wilde's lyric voice...

Classic FM Magazine, October 20114 out of 5 stars

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Steeped in an atmosphere of ancient Scottish musical tradition, Benjamin Britten’s setting of texts by Robert Burns in A Birthday Hansel was his final song-cycle. Who are these children? is another late cycle to poems by William Soutar, combining darkly dramatic musical depictions of wartime life with protest songs which hark back to the composer’s youth.

Acclaimed Scottish tenor Mark Wilde’s sensitivities embrace both the vibrantly dramatic and “gently mellifluous” (Manchester Evening News) qualities in this deeply expressive repertoire.

Contents and tracklist

Britten: A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92
Work length19:22
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
No. 1. Birthday Song
Track length2:02
No. 2. My Early Walk
Track length4:54
No. 3. Wee Willie Gray
Track length0:55
No. 4. My Hoggie
Track length2:14
No. 5. Afton Water
Track length3:27
No. 6. The Winter
Track length3:14
No. 7. Leezie Lindsay
Track length2:36
Britten: Who are these children?, Op. 84
Work length20:27
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
No. 1. A Riddle (The Earth)
Track length1:06
No. 2. A Laddie's Sang
Track length0:58
No. 3. Nightmare
Track length2:24
No. 4. Black Day
Track length0:44
No. 5. Bed-time
Track length1:15
No. 6. Slaughter
Track length1:31
No. 7. A Riddle (The Child You Were)
Track length1:04
No. 8. The Lark Lad
Track length0:34
No. 9. Who are these Children?
Track length2:19
No. 10. Supper
Track length1:39
No. 11. The Children
Track length4:42
No. 12. The Auld Aik
Track length2:11
Britten: Cradle Song, "Sleep, my darling, sleep"
Work length3:07
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Britten: Beware!: No. 2. O that I had ne'er been married
Work length1:20
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Britten: Folksongs Volume 5: British Isles · Folk Songs
Work length4:58
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, "British Isles": No. 5. Ca' the yowes
Track length4:58
Britten: Folksongs Volume 3: British Isles · Pray Goody
Work length1:47
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
No. 2. There's none to soothe
Track length1:47
Britten: Folksongs Volume 1: British Isles · Folk Songs
Work length5:30
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
No. 4. O can ye sew cushions?
Track length2:20
No. 3. The Bonny Earl o' Moray
Track length3:10
Britten: Eight Folk Song Arrangements for High Voice and Harp
Work length3:59
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
8 Folk Song Arrangements: No. 4. Bonny at morn
Track length3:59
Britten: Folksongs Volume 3: British Isles · Pray Goody
Work length1:19
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
No. 7. Come you not from Newcastle?
Track length1:19
Britten: Dawtie’s Devotion
Work length1:07
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Britten: The Gully
Work length0:55
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Britten: Tradition
Work length0:51
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
Britten: 4 Burns Songs (arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano)
Work length8:43
  • Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
  • Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
  • Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
No. 1. Afton Water
Track length2:59
No. 2. Wee Willie
Track length0:56
No. 3. The Winter
Track length2:53
No. 4. My Hoggie
Track length1:55

Awards and reviews

October 2011

The Scottish tenor has matured into one of our finest artists with time's passing, musically astute, vocally impressive and a generous communicator...the intense beauty of Wilde's lyric voice and the musical wisdom of these interpretations pay handsome compensation for the recital's want of spectacular contrasts.
4 out of 5 stars

13th August 2011

Sensitive harp accompaniment brings to life this setting of poems from Robert Burns and William Soutar
3 out of 5 stars

Awards Issue 2011

[In "A Birthday Hansel"] Wilde takes his time and uses his pliable voice to play with light and shade in atmospheric performances. The Soutar cycle, "Who are these children?", is also unhurried, adding several minutes to the timing of Peter Pears's recording, though Wilde generally uses the time productively. The headlong violence of "Slaughter" is more intelligible at this speed and "The Children" has a properly haunting air.

11th August 2011

This is a fascinating recital of all Britten’s “north of the border” settings, including his final song cycle A Birthday Hansel and familiar folk-songs such as Ca’the Yowes. The mood is mostly bleak, haunted and haunting: this is Britten at his most austerely romantic and melancholy.
5 out of 5 stars

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