Britten: Complete Scottish Songs
Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp) & David Owen Norris (piano)
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...
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...
About
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
- Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), Lucy Wakeford (harp)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
- Mark Wilde (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)
- Recorded: 17-19 August 2009
- Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton, UK
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.
13th August 2011
Sensitive harp accompaniment brings to life this setting of poems from Robert Burns and William Soutar
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.
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