The Contrast: English Poetry in Song Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton

• William Walton (1902 - 1983): A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano):
• 1A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano): No. 1, The Lord Mayor's Table03:14
• 2A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano): No. 2, Glide Gently02:43
• 3A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano): No. 3, Wapping Old Stairs02:20
• 4A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano): No. 4, Holy Thursday03:07
• 5A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano): No. 5, The Contrast02:45
• 6A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table (Version for Soprano & Piano): No. 6, Rhyme01:52
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958):
• 73 Songs from Shakespeare: No. 3, Orpheus with His Lute02:59
• 8The Sky Above the Roof02:39
• 9The House of Life: No. 2, Silent Noon04:03
• Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941):
• 10Go Not, Happy Day, H. 3401:18
• 11When Most I Wink, H. 502:41
• 12Adoration, H. 5702:50
• 13Come to Me in My Dreams, H. 7103:38
• 14When You Are Old, H. 14203:54
• 15Mantle of Blue, H. 13102:12
• 16Love Went a-Riding, H. 11401:41
• Huw Watkins (b. 1976): 5 Larkin Songs:
• 175 Larkin Songs: No. 1, Who Called Love Conquering02:45
• 185 Larkin Songs: No. 2, Wants01:37
• 195 Larkin Songs: No. 3, Love Songs in Age03:26
• 205 Larkin Songs: No. 4, Money01:47
• 215 Larkin Songs: No. 5, Dawn02:33
• Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953):
• 22Dream Valley, Op. 20 No. 102:14
• 237 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 7, Fair House of Joy01:46
• 247 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 6, By a Fountainside02:56
• 25Arab Love Song, Op. 25 No. 401:17
• 26Autumn Evening, Op. 14 No. 101:34
• 277 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12 (Excerpts): No. 2, My Life's Delight02:55
• William Walton: 3 Songs to Poems (After "Façade"):
• 283 Songs to Poems (After "Façade"): No. 1, Daphne03:58
• 293 Songs to Poems (After "Façade"): No. 2, Through Gilded Trellises03:58
• 303 Songs to Poems (After "Façade"): No. 3, Old Sir Faulk01:57
• Total Runtime01:18:39

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Song composition has been a constant in British music since the lute and consort works of the early seventeenth century. By 1900, it had developed into a sophisticated genre embraced by almost all serious composers. The music on this amply-filled disc illustrates the diversity of British song-writing and its transformation over a century: from Vaughan Williams’s Orpheus and his Lute (ca 1901) to HuwWatkins’s Five Larkin Songs, composed in 2010 for Carolyn Sampson, who performs them here. Together with Joseph Middleton, her partner on several acclaimed recital discs, she has devised a highly contrasting programme bookended by two groups of songs by William Walton – A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table from 1962, celebrating the diversity of London, and three songs from Façade, the ‘entertainment’ with which the young composer gained both fame and notoriety in 1923.These frame settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roger Quilterand Frank Bridge of poetry by writers from Shakespeare and Shelley to Keats and Yeats. In comparison, the anti-romantic poems by Philip Larkin have been described as marked by ‘a very English, glum accuracy’. Huw Watkins (b. 1976) has selected texts from across Larkin’s output, catching the various moods – ranging from a certain unsentimental nostalgia to the poet’s seemingly habitual pessimism - in settings that often carry a bittersweet sting in the tail.

Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano

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