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1 de abr. de 2022 · Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns; The House of Life by Nicky Spence, Julius Drake, Piatti Quartet, Timothy Ridout released in 2022. Find album revi
The major work present here is the 1909 song cycle On Wenlock Edge, for tenor, piano and string quartet, a setting of poms by A.E.Houseman, and often recorded. It contains what, for me, is the most beautiful and memorable of RVW’s songs, From Far, from Eve and Morning.
‘Nicky Spence and colleagues serve up a nourishing feast of Vaughan Williams’s vocal music, culminating in a performance of On Wenlock Edge which, in its thrilling assurance, strength of imagination and rapt instinct, inclines me to rank it alongside the very finest I know …
4 de oct. de 2022 · Music Reviews: Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns; The House of Life by Nicky Spence, Julius Drake, Piatti Quartet & Timothy Ridout released in 2022. Genre: Classical.
30 de sept. de 2022 · Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the violence of the Fourth Symphony and the grand ceremonial of All people that on earth do dwell, he assumed the mantle ...
9 de feb. de 2024 · The Four hymns set to words by Jeremy Taylor, Richard Crawshaw, Isaac Watts, and a free translation poem from third-century Greek by Robert Bridges begin this lovely recital. Nicky Spence impeccably brings out RVW's musical lines with such sensitivity that the beauty makes the music alluring.
‘One of the immediate strengths of Nicky Spence’s new album for Hyperion is how cohesive a feel he brings to a program that ranges through the mystic passions of the Four Hymns (with obligato viola and piano), the rose-scented minstrelsies of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The House of Life, and a trio of rumbustious folksongs thrown in for ...
