Francesca Chiejina soprano | Fleur Barron mezzo soprano | Natalie Burch piano
Release Date: 20 October 2023
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343117
Composer/Series: Our Indifferent Century
Description
In 1914 Thomas Hardy wrote of 'our indifferent century'; a generation later W.H. Auden urgently sought to fuse the political with the creative.
Today, profoundly unsettled by the turn of the world's politics, three artists respond with a programme that explores the changes and challenges we face presently, but one that also offers hope, levity an even a degree of irreverence, and never loses sight of the joy and beauty of nature.
Hardy and Auden found their perfect musical counterparts in the songwriting of Finzi and Britten; in our own times William Marsey and Joanna Ward add their own musical voices of political urgency and wistful yearning.
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