034571171883

Bliss: A Knot Of Riddles & Other Songs

Martyn Brabbins: The Nash Ensemble

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Format: 2CD

Cat No: CDA671889

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Release Date:  01 February 2000

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Fat Double (a 2.5cm thick jewel case, fits several CDs)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  034571171883

Genres:  Classical  Vocal  

  • Description

    This 2-CD set presents the most comprehensive recording yet of the songs of Sir Arthur Bliss—which turns out to be a surprisingly varied output dating from all periods of his life. There are many first recordings here, and in fact many of the songs are virtually unknown. The poets range from the eighth-century Li-Po and early English to Housman, Hardy, Walter de la Mare and Kathleen Raine (the cycle Angels of the Mind), with a strong showing of the American writers Edna St Vincent Millay and Elinor Wylie. (Bliss was half-American himself.) The Nash Ensemble provides the varied instrumental backings for the many songs which are not accompanied by piano alone. The set comes with generous notes by Giles Easterbook and complete texts.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Fish in River
      • 2. Swallows
      • 3. An Oyster
      • 4. A Weather Cock
      • 5. A Bookworm
      • 6. A Cross of Wood
      • 7. Sun and Moon
      • 8. The HAre
      • 9. Lovelocks
      • 10. The Buckle
      • 11. A Christmas Carol
      • 12. Sea Love
      • 13. Vocalise
      • 14. The Mad Woman Of Punnet's Town
      • 15. Gone, gone again is summer
      • 16. Siege
      • 17. Feast
      • 18. Little Elegy
      • 19. Rain Comes Down
      • 20. Fair Annet's Song
      • 21. Being young and green
      • 22. Humoresque
      • 23. The Return from Town
      • 24. Thunderstorms
      • 25. This Night
      • 26. Leisure
      • 27. Fair Is My Love
      • 28. In praise of his Daphnis
      • 29. The Tramps
      • 30. When I Was One-and-twenty

      Disc 2

      • 1. The Ragwort
      • 2. The Dandelion
      • 3. Elegiac Sonnet
      • 4. Worry About Money
      • 5. Lenten Flowers
      • 6. Harvest
      • 7. Seed
      • 8. In The Beck
      • 9. Storm
      • 10. Nocturne
      • 11. The Tempest The Storm , Overture
      • 12. Spring
      • 13. Summer
      • 14. Autumn
      • 15. Winter
      • 16. The Fallow Deer At The Lonely House
      • 17. Rich Or Poor
      • 18. A Child's Prayer
      • 19. Three Jolly Gentlemen
      • 20. The Hammers
      • 21. Simples
      • 22. 'Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town
      • 23. At The Window
      • 24. Auvergnat