Farren Soutar News
British actor (1870-1962)
- baritone
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- actor, opera singer
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2022-06-25 08:49:40
Obsessed by voices: pianist Dylan Perez on recording the complete songs of Samuel Barber
[…] that focuses on Scottish and American music. The excuse for this, if one were needed, is that Dylan and Nicky got married earlier this year, and the recital comes right after their honeymoon. So there will be songs by the neo-Romantic American composer Charles Griffes (1884-1920) setting words by Fiona Macleod, pseudonym of the Scottish writer William Sharp (1855 - 1905), Britten's song cycle Who are these Children? setting texts by the Scottish poet William Soutar (1898–1943), Margaret Bonds' Songs of the Seasons, setting words by Langston Hughes and finally some Sondheim. Then later on Nicky and Dylan have a residency at the Copenhagen Opera Festival.Dylan always wanted to be a pianist; he started at the age of five and didn't ever stop practising, his parents had to tell him to stop. When his friends were hanging out, he would be practising and he loved it. He comments that he […]
2021-08-10 06:34:36
Rooted in Scottish soil: an exploration of the songs by Scotland's woefully ignored son, Erik Chisholm
[…] (tenor), Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone) and Iain Burnside (piano). The songs prove to be something of a surprise for anyone expecting a contemporary 20th century take on the song genre. It is worth whilst bearing in mind the comparison of Chisholm to Bartok, for their way of absorbing folk-idioms into their style with understanding and daring. The disc has a small group of songs setting English poetry, but the majority are Scots ranging from William Soutar, to Chisholm's own versions of older texts to a set of poems by Lillias Scott (daughter of the Scottish composer Francis George Scott) who became his second wife. This perhaps gives a hint why the songs have not been explored more until now; all three singers are Scottish and their use of the Scots tongue is fearless in these songs. And I have to confess that the comic songs setting William Soutar sent me […]
2021-07-23 08:14:24
Seven Ages: Mark Padmore, Roderick Williams, Julius Drake, Victoria Newlyn at Temple Music
[…] song. These were linked by words from the comedy of Thom Gunn's Baby Song and A A Milne's The End to the more serious from Don Paterson and Carol Ann Duffy. The whining schoolboy began with Padmore in miraculous form in Britten's Midnight on the Great Western (from Winter Words), vividly done with the metaphysical element in the second half of the song really lifting us elsewhere, and Padmore followed this with the wonderfully vivid Soutar setting, A Black Day from Britten's Who are these children? Readings include Paul Henry on a boy's transformation at the barber and Emily Dickinson. And this group ended, rather surprisingly, with Schubert's Der Pilgrim, with the journeying of the piano rhythms counterpointed by Williams' confiding tone which really grabbed you leading to the mystical end (to childhood?), which was counterpointed by an enormously thoughtful Cecil Day Lewis reading of a mother remembering her son's […]
2018-12-12 08:00:47
Looking Ahead: Aldeburgh 2019 - Thomas Larcher, Mark Padmore, Barbara Hannigan
[…] part of Mark Padmore's residency he wants audiences to think more closely about the words set in songs and in opera, so there are four Poetry and Music events where writer, broadcaster and performer Dr Kate Kennedy is joined by leading poets to discuss the texts set by Britten in his song cycles Winter Words (Thomas Hardy), The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, and Who are These Children? (William Soutar). The discussions are followed by performances from Padmore, Roderick Williams and pianist Andrew West.These two residencies intersect when Mark Padmore performs Thomas Larcher's A Padmore Cycle accompanied by the composer. Larcher wrote the cycle for Mark Padmore in 2011 [see my review of Padmore and Larcher's CD recording of the cycle]Padmore will be joined by Roderick Williams for a recital which re-creates the 1828 concert of Schubert's music, the only known all-Schubert programme performed […]
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