Cat No:
CDA67899
Release Date: 01 January 2012
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178998
Composer/Series: Head
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Description
Who is Michael Head? His name may be largely forgotten but the music here forms part of the rich seam of English song in the manner of Quilter, Gurney and Warlock. Born in 1900, he worked modestly as a singer, pianist, teacher, broadcaster and adjudicator, writing his first song (The ships of Arcady) aged nineteen, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, where he became a professor of piano aged twenty-seven, remaining there for the rest of his career.
At the centre of his composing life were songs, which he used to perform as a kind of one-man band, accompanying himself at the piano. Out of more than 100, here’s a choice selection: setting poets such as Walter de la Mare, John Masefield and Christina Rossetti, many of them focus on the pleasures of England—its flora and fauna, its changing seasons and lyrical landscapes.
They’re sung by three of the brightest stars in today’s vocal firmament, Ailish Tynan (making her Hyperion debut), Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Roderick Williams, accompanied by Christopher Glynn, who adds Head to his previous recordings of Reger and Brahms. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Dear delight
- 2. Oh, for a March wind
- 3. Sweet Chance, that led my steps abroad
- 4. Tewkesbury Road
- 5. The Estuary
- 6. Limehouse Reach
- 7. Over the rim of the moon
- 8. October Valley
- 9. The Garden Seat
- 10. Foxgloves
- 11. The Viper
- 12. Had I a golden pound
- 13. Lean out of the window
- 14. A Piper
- 15. A Green Cornfield
- 16. Loves Lament
- 17. Star Candles
- 18. The little road to Bethlehem
- 19. Money, O!
- 20. Three Songs of Venice
- 21. My sword for the King
- 22. You cannot dream things lovelier
Disc 1
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Kalabis: Duettina, Chamber music & Diptych
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
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Honey-coloured cow
Laurence Perkins
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Dvorak & Price: Piano Quintets
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
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Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
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English Motets
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
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Debussy: Images, Estampes & Children's Corner
Steven Osborne
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Saint-Saens: The complete works for piano and orchestra
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
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Elgar & Walton: Cello Concertos
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
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Swann: Songs
Felicity Lott, Kathryn Rudge, John Mark Ainsley, Roderick Williams, Christopher Glynn
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Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music
Claire Booth, Christopher Glynn
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