Benjamin Burrows News
British musician (1891-1966)
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- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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2023-09-01 06:30:00
[…] it simply shape the words. In some of the songs, particularly the Pooh ones, you sense also a sort of sly humour underlying it, that Doyle and Kember are enjoying themselves.At the end of the disc comes the slightly more developed, The Kings Breakfast which features not just two songs but beautifully po-faced spoken introductions from Brian Sibley, and a short instrumental interlude from Grant Doyle (flute), Eloise Prouse (violin), Tom Pollock (French horn), Dan Burrows (cello).Grant Doyle and John Kember visit Poohsticks Bridge, Hartfield, Sussex (Photo Eloise Prouse)Frankly, the set is rather a marathon at one sitting. Fraser-Simpson's style does not really vary enough for that, but to dip into the set is a complete delight and pick any moment and you get music redolent of that particular period.Enchanted Places: The Complete Fraser-Simpson settings of A.A. MilneGrant Doyle (baritone)John Kember (piano)Brian Sibley (narrator)EM Records Recorded 2019, 2020 at Porcupine […]
2021-07-16 11:23:32
Landscapes, Song Cycles and Folk Songs: the songs of Alun Hoddinott
[…] Michael Pollock (piano) on Naxos brings together all of Hoddinott's songs for high voice and piano as well as his last vocal work of all. Hoddinott withdrew virtually all of his early songs, so the programme begins with Landscapes (Ynys Môn), Op. 87 from 1975 which was written shortly after Hoddinott's first opera, The Beach of Falesa (which was premiered at Welsh National Opera in 1974). The cycle was written for the tenor Stuart Burrows and sets poetry by Emyr Humphreys (born 1919) with whom Hoddinott had worked on a number of dramatic projects, writing incidental music for Humphreys plays. The five poems are meditations on places in Angelsey (Ynys Môn), but perhaps significantly Hoddinott was also writing a major orchestral work, Landscapes Op. 86, for the BBC which depicted the craggy landscape of Snowdonia. There is nothing pastoral about the music of these songs, nor do […]
2021-03-17 04:15:00
Sir Michael Tippett - The Midsummer Marriage - Davis - Pritchard
Sir Michael Tippett (1905- 1998) The Midsummer Marriage (1955) Opera in three acts, text of the composer Mark Alberto Remedios Jenifer Joan Carlyle King Fisher Raimund Herincx Bella Elizabeth Harwood Jack Stuart Burrows Sosotris Helen Watts Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Sir Colin Davis Recorded 1970 by Philips Lyrita 1995 Wilfrid Meyers wrote a few years ago: Tippett's "search" opera, written on the conscious influence of T. S. Eliot's verse drama (he corresponded with Eliot to get him to write the libretto), is of course a comedy, and deals with, as he tells himself "unexpected obstacles to a possible marriage"; these obstacles are above all "our own ignorance, or our illusions in our own". Mark […]
2020-12-03 07:36:02
[…] doing Alan Bush's 1946 cantata A Winter Journey for choir, string quintet and harp (or piano)! Rees couples the work with attractive sequences of carols, alternating music Hildegard of Bingen and Michael Praetorius with contemporary composers Judith Weir, David Blackwell, Jonathan Dove, Dobrinka Tabakova, and Toby Young. A Ceremony of Carols - Signum Classics - Amazon Opus Anglicanum is a group of five professional singers (John Bowen, David De Winter, James Birchall, Stephen Burrows, Roland Robertson) who perform with a reader (Zeb Soanes), performing music from the medieval to the contemporary. After somewhat overdosing on more modern carols it was a pleasure to turn to their disc, Medieval Carols, of early plainchant and music by Perotin, Josquin, Walter Lambe, William Cornysh and Obrecht interspersed with seasonal readings given by Zeb Soanes (you may know him as a BBC Radio newsreader or as the author of a series of […]
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