Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan
Release Date: 26 October 2018
Label: Em Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060263500506
Description
Nestled amidst the large-scale musical works that define the accepted view of Hubert Parry as religious patriot are numerous songs that demonstrate the composer's longstanding love of poetry, as well as his mastery of detail that brings the words to life. Jeremy Huw Williams and Paula Fan bring these beautiful songs to life on this engaging album from EM Records.
"My father was the most naturally unconventional man I have known. He was a Radical with a very strong bias against Conservatism.", wrote Parry's daughter Dolly some thirty years after his death, in hopes that "the extraordinary misinterpretation of him "the extraordinary misinterpretation of him that exists should not persist." Nonetheless, the image of Parry as a landed pillar of the establishment, the composer of such stalwarts of the repertoire as Jerusalem and I was glad, has remained fixed in the minds of most listeners. Only in the twenty years preceding the centenary of his death has light been shed on the contradictions between his musical and personal life, as reflected in his considerable body of work.
Parry turned to song throughout his life, beginning form his days at Eton in the 1860s to the year of his death in 1918. With Harmony of Soul and Song (EMRCD053), a new recording of Parry's songs by baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan, commemorates the centenary of the composer's death, by tracing the composer's journey from some of his earliest efforts at song- Three Odes of Anacreon, in a World Première recording- through his various returns to the genre over the course of more than half a century.
Tracklisting
Paul Guinery
Paul Guinery
BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill, BBC Singers, Nadine Benjamin, Ben McAteer
Godwine Choir, Alex Davan Wetton, Edward Hughes & John Wright
Paul Guinery
Grant Doyle, John Kember, Brian Sibley
Jeremy Huw Williams, Timothy Kantor, Paula Fan
English Arts Chorale, English Arts Orchestra, Leslie Olive
