Release Date: 16 April 2021
Label: Champs Hill
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060212591630
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: The Children's Hour
Description
Acclaimed baritone Gareth Brynmor John and prize-winning pianist William Vann celebrate the wonder of childhood with a new recording of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies. Dedicated to their respective children, the recording takes its name from Charles Ives’s charming setting of Henry Longfellow’s poem, The Children’s Hour. Gareth Brynmor John comments: “Each of us has two young children, and the patter (or, perhaps, stomping) of tiny feet is now part of the soundscape (cacophony) of our everyday lives. Our programme weaves a tapestry of childhood experience: some tales stray towards the dark and nightmarish, even going as far as death, many are deeply comic, and others are charming or immensely profound. All of them, though, contemplate the wonder of childhood that continues to nourish us as adults, either through direct experience or via our memories.” This release marks William Vann’s second disc for Champs Hill, and he is delighted to return to a label of which he is very fond.
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