Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Children’s Songs (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:21 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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SOMM Recordings continues its widely acclaimed championing of the music of Charles Villiers Stanford with a captivating collection of his Children’s Songs by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and baritone Gareth Brynmor John, accompanied by pianist Susie Allan.
Including numerous first recordings and the first complete CD release of his setting of 14-year-old Helen Douglas Adam’s enchanting Songs from the Elfin Pedlar, it throws revealing new light on an important but largely overlooked aspect of Stanford’s output.
Stanford, as his biographer and British music authority Jeremy Dibble comments in his authoritative notes, “was very much alive to the importance of children’s participation in music” following the transformative introduction of signing to the school curriculum in 1870. This delightful compendium of songs intended for children reveals the composer to be as acutely sensitive to his eclectic choice of texts as to his intended audience.
It features premiere recordings of the early, Robert Louis Stevenson-set A Child’s Garland of Songs (Op.30), the mid-period Four Songs (Op.112) and later Six Songs (Op.175), together with seven other standalone songs, including the simple pastoral message of Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow and delightfully capricious Fairy Lures.
SOMM’s previous Stanford recordings include his String Quintets (SOMMCD 0623) and complete String Quartets (SOMMCD 0160, 0185, 0607) with the Dante Quartet, praised by Gramophone for their “ardent, alert and thoroughly lived-in performances”, and Partsongs with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir led by Paul Spicer (SOMMCD 0128), which Limelight described as “excellent… beautifully sung”.
Tracklist:
01. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 1, Bed in Summer (01:13)
02. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 2, Pirate Story (01:24)
03. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 3, Foreign Lands (01:44)
04. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 4, Windy Nights (00:54)
05. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 5, Where Go the Boats? (01:58)
06. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 6, My Shadow (02:32)
07. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 7, Marching Song (01:21)
08. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 8, Foreign Children (02:30)
09. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Child’s Garland of Songs, Op. 30: No. 9, My Ship and Me (01:53)
10. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 1, Spring (01:50)
11. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 2, The Silence (02:59)
12. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 3, The City Child (01:33)
13. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 4 Songs, Op. 112: No. 4, The Vision (03:26)
14. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 1, A Song of the Bow (01:26)
15. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 2, Drop Me a Flower (01:39)
16. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 3, The Winds of Bethlehem (03:55)
17. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 4, The Monkey’s Carol (03:10)
18. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 5, Lullaby (03:37)
19. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: 6 Songs, Op. 175: No. 6, The Unknown Sea (02:43)
20. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 1: No. 1, Two Little Stars (01:52)
21. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 1: No. 2, The Pedlar (02:25)
22. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 1: No. 3, Little Snowdrop (00:57)
23. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 1: No. 4, The Piper of the Spring (01:49)
24. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 1: No. 5, Speedwell (01:42)
25. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 1: No. 6, The Dream Ship (01:30)
26. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 2: No. 1, Summer (01:08)
27. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 2: No. 2, What Do You See? (02:36)
28. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 2: No. 3, The Piper (02:47)
29. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 2: No. 4, The Secret Place (02:21)
30. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 2: No. 5, Night (01:34)
31. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Songs from “The Elfin Pedlar”, Book 2: No. 6, The Dust-Man (01:01)
32. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Witches’ Charms (01:28)
33. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow (01:50)
34. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Fairy Lures (01:38)
35. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: The Hoofs of the Horses (01:47)
36. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: A Japanese Lullaby (02:28)
37. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: Worship (02:59)
38. Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan – Stanford: The King’s Highway (02:23)
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