Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113444134
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: John Pickard
Description
The English composer John Pickard (b. 1963) is best known for a series of powerful orchestral works, five symphonies among them. This album of songs – his complete output for voice and piano to date –demonstrates that he can generate drama on a smaller scale, too. Here he sets two less familiar poets of the First World War, often exploring man’s relationship with nature, and a translation of a ninth-century Anglo-Saxon phantasmagorical allegory. These songs encompass a wide range of moods, requiring soaring vocal lines, declamatory authority and the gentlest intimacy, supported by piano textures that can flare up in freewheeling virtuosity.
Tracklisting
Tomasz Kamieniak
Stephanie McCallum; Erin Helyard
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Nick Palmer
Jan Lehtola
Ian Mardon; Matthias Bromann; Julia Mensching; Olga Lubotsky; Suren Arisonyan; Clovis Michon; Andre
Basil C. Vendryes; William David
Viktor Valkov
Petri Komulainen; Jan Lehtola
