The Power of Love: An English Songbook

[Victorian parlour repertoire] proves both admirably suited to her distinctively creamy yet expressive voice, and occasionally revelatory...The well-structured programme concludes with Holst's... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, More…

Release Date: 30th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: CDA67888
Label: Hyperion
Length: 73 minutes

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Molloy: Love's old sweet song

4:17

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

White, M: So we'll go no more a-roving

4:32

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

White, M: The Spring has come

2:34

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

White, M: The Devout Lover

4:11

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Elgar: Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2

3:15

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Elgar: Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1

3:10

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Lehmann, L: Ah, moon of my delight

4:43

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Lehmann, L: Love, if you knew the light

1:24

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Excerpt, Vaughan Williams: The House of Life

4:42

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

II. Silent noon

4:42

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Peel: Almond, wild almond

1:58

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Peel: The country lover

1:39

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

IV. The early morning

1:39

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Quilter: There be none of Beauty's daughters, Op. 24, No. 1

2:03

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Quilter: Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson)

2:24

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Quilter: Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)

1:29

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Grainger: The Power of Love

4:04

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Gibbs, C A: Hypochondriacus

1:39

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Lehmann, L: Pa's bank

1:31

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Gibbs, C A: A Song of Shadows Op. 15, No. 3

2:33

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Warlock: Take, O take those lips away

1:59

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Excerpt, Warlock: Belloc Songs (3)

2:11

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

II. The night

2:11

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Warlock: Queen Anne

0:51

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Moeran: In youth is pleasure

2:29

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Gurney: Goodnight to the meadow

1:18

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Gurney: The boat is chafing

1:38

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Gurney: Lights out

4:02

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

IV. Lights Out

4:02

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Excerpt, Holst: Twelve Songs, H174

6:28

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Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

IX. Journey's End

2:32

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XII. Betelgeuse

3:56

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Alice Coote, one of the most distinctive mezzo-sopranos of today, makes her recital debut on Hyperion with pianist Graham Johnson, a stalwart of the label and tireless explorer of vocal repertoire. The Power of Love creates what Johnson describes as a ‘pageant of English song and poetry’. It’s a journey through half a century of song, surveying not just human love but love of nature and even of money. Some of the most touching pieces here involve the loss of love through death, not least Ivor Gurney’s Lights Out and Gustav Holst’s Betelgeuse. There’s serenity, too, in mellifluous settings by Roger Quilter, while high spirits are supplied by Maude Valérie White’s The Spring has come and Warlock’s sardonic Queen Anne, which includes the immortal lines ‘I am Queen Anne, of whom ’tis said / I’m chiefly fam’d for being dead’.

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April 2012

[Victorian parlour repertoire] proves both admirably suited to her distinctively creamy yet expressive voice, and occasionally revelatory...The well-structured programme concludes with Holst's late Humbert Wolfe settings, in which Coote finds surprising power. Journey's End is tragically bleak

11th February 2012

Almost every track on the mezzo’s recital springs a surprise

February 2012

From start to finish, the artistry of Alice Coote and Graham Johnson is of the highest order.

February 2012

['Love's Philosophy'] needs and receives a bolder and stronger delivery than its neighbour, rising to a showy conclusion. It allows Coote to introduce an almost operatic approach as her voice peals forth...the Holst songs, mesmerizingly captured by Coote, whose voice seems almost detached as she intones 'Betelgeuse', recorded, like the rest of the programme, in clear sound.

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