Clare Mccaldin / James Gilchr - Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Composer Hugh Wood is known for his powerfully communicative and lyrical music and this latest release presents a selection of songs spanning his career. They are set to poems by DH Lawrence, Robert Graves, Laurie Lee and Lawrence Durrell, exploring themes of youth, love, lust and longing.rr

Wild Cyclamen (2006) u2013 a song-cycle from twelve individual, unrelated poems by Robert Graves u2013 depicts the rise and fall of a love affair. Hugh Wood explains: 'Graves wrote no such cycle but I've dared to construct one. It doesn't achieve too strong a story-line, but the songs are meant to be sung in a fixed order'.rr

The DH Lawrence settings (1998) include three poems Lawrence wrote about his days with Frieda in Bavaria and the Isles of Greece (2007) u2013 written for and dedicated to baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside u2013 is a compilation of poems celebrating various aspects of Greek life and its people.rr

The earliest works on this recording are the Laurie Lee Songs (1956-58) written when Hugh was in his mid twenties.rr

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'(Hugh Woods) vocal lines are always skilful amplifications of the text while his idiomatically written piano parts set the voice off to its best advantage.' BBC Music Magazinerr

'They are all scrupulously performed here, with Clare McCaldin engaged in the Laurie Lee settings, Roderick Williams offering precise and sentient articulation in The Isles of Greece, and James Gilchrist seeking out the tensions of Wild Cyclamen and the DH Lawrence settings u2026 Iain Burnside and Simon Lepper are both excellent as always' BBC Music Magazinerr

'There is nothing ordinary or expected in the sixty-four minutes of Wild Cyclamen u2026 Representing a wide swath of Wood's compositional career, the songs on Wild Cyclamen disclose the voice of a creative spirit clearly acquainted with the songs of Finzi, Quilter, Britten, and Tippett, influenced and perhaps even inspired by them, but compellingly individual.' Voix Des Arts rr

'The five Laurie Lee Songs come over with a post-Brittenish freshness u2026 It's from Grave's poems that Wood has forged the striking 12-song cycle.' The Sunday Times

Hugh Wood: Laurie Lee Songs I Boy in Ice

Hugh Wood: Laurie Lee Songs II The Edge of Day

Hugh Wood: Laurie Lee Songs III The Easter Green

Hugh Wood: Laurie Lee Songs IV Town Owl

Hugh Wood: Laurie Lee Songs V April Rise

Hugh Wood: DH Lawrence Songs I Dog-tired

Hugh Wood: DH Lawrence Songs II Roses on the breakfast table

Hugh Wood: DH Lawrence Songs III Gloire de Dijon

Hugh Wood: DH Lawrence Songs IV Kisses in the train

Hugh Wood: DH Lawrence Songs V River Roses

Hugh Wood: The Isles of Greece I Delos

Hugh Wood: The Isles of Greece II Nemea

Hugh Wood: The Isles of Greece III Ouzo Unclouded

Hugh Wood: The Isles of Greece IV In the sea caves

Hugh Wood: The Isles of Greece V The Isles of Greece

Hugh Wood: The Isles of Greece VI Bitter Lemons

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen I A Dream of Frances Speedwell

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen II Wild Cyclamen

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen III Beatrice and Dante

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen IV The Garden

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen V The Leap

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen VI Not to Sleep

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen VII The Crab-Tree

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen VIII Bites and Kisses

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen XIV Horizon

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen XV The Window Sill

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen XVI A Lost Jewel

Hugh Wood: Wild Cyclamen XVII Hedges Freaked With Snow

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 5023363020121

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