NEW from The Sixteen
Album Description
Featuring 17 Premiere recordings
Celebrating Anglo-Irish composer Charles Villiers Stanford's centenary, this new album from The Sixteen includes a number of premiere recordings of Stanford's Irish Folksongs and Partsongs.
Stanford is celebrated both nationally and internationally as a composer of great diversity. He composed a substantial number of concert works, including seven symphonies, but he is best-remembered for his choral works. Stanford’s writing for voices is exquisite and his imaginative storytelling is ever-present in his Irish Folksongs where he captures everything from fiery revenge to passionate love with equal effectiveness. Stanford’s dedication to the poetry of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge also stands out—he was drawn to the lyricism of her poetry and the imagery she conjures up—something that is clearly heard in his Opus 127 settings. Much of her poetry is marked by a sense of loss and change, nowhere better portrayed than in The Guest with its unsettling narrative.
Supported by
The Stanford Society
Artists
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Track Listing
Six Irish Folksongs, Op. 78
1. Oh! breathe not his name
2. What the bee is to the flow’ret
3. At the mid hour of night
4. The sword of Erin
5. It is not the tear
6. Oh, the sight entrancing
Eight Partsongs, Op. 127
7. Plighted *
8. Veneta
9. When Mary thro’ the garden went
10. The Haven
11. The Guest *
12. Larghetto *
13. Wilderspin *
14. To a tree *
Six Elizabethan Pastorals (Set I), Op. 49
15. To his flocks
16. Diaphenia
17. Damon’s passion *
18. Sweet love for me
19. Corydon, arise!
20. Phoebe *
Nine Irish Folksongs
21. ’Twas pretty to be in Ballinderry *
22. Come, rest in this bosom *
23. Silence is inn oiur festal halls *
24. Wreathe the bowl *
25. When she answered me *
26. She is far from the land *
27. St Mary’s Bells *
28. Awake, awake, Fianna *
29. Molly Hewson *
Bonus Track
30. Emer’s farewell to Cucullain (Londonderry Air) *
Total running time: 75.53
* indicates premiere recording
