Lucy Stevens – Ethel Smyth: Songs & Ballads (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:58 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
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Somm Recordings continues its acclaimed championing of neglected British composers with “Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs and Ballads” – 17 vocal works with piano and chamber orchestra accompaniment composed between 1886 and 1913.
Published in 1886 and receiving their first recordings in English are the five Op.3 Songs and Ballads. Dedicated to Livia Frege, the singer to whom Mendelsohn and Schumann dedicated some of their finest songs, they blend images of the natural world with themes of lost love to reveal Smyth as a songwriter of already considerable gifts. Dedicated to Smyth’s mother and exploring themes of motherhood while shot through with images drawn from troublesome dreams, the five Op.4 Lieder, settings of German texts, exalt in an emotional palette that ranges from tenderness to trenchant emotion. Three Songs from 1913, composed during the period of Smyth’s suffragette activity – which saw her jailed for two months for throwing a stone through a cabinet minister’s window – deftly combine the political and personal. With lyrics by the suffragist Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Possession is dedicated to Emmeline Pankhurst, On the Road: a marching tune to Pankhurst’s daughter, Christabel. The Clown sets a text by Maurice Baring, whose biography Smyth wrote in 1938. Written for voice and chamber orchestra, the Four Songs from 1908 boast exquisite orchestrations that revel in Smyth’s associations with artistic circles in France and were hailed by Debussy as “tout à fait remarquables”. – Somm Recordings
Tracklist:
1. Lucy Stevens – 4 Songs (Sung in English): No. 1, Odelette (05:51)
2. Lucy Stevens – 4 Songs (Sung in English): No. 2, The Dance (06:05)
3. Lucy Stevens – 4 Songs (Sung in English): No. 3, Chrysilla (04:21)
4. Lucy Stevens – 4 Songs (Sung in English): No. 4, Anacreontic Ode (05:25)
5. Lucy Stevens – 5 Songs & Ballads, Op. 3 (Sung in English): No. 1, On the Hill (02:07)
6. Lucy Stevens – 5 Songs & Ballads, Op. 3 (Sung in English): No. 2, The Lost Hunter (04:23)
7. Lucy Stevens – 5 Songs & Ballads, Op. 3 (Sung in English): No. 3, Near the Linden Tree (02:41)
8. Lucy Stevens – 5 Songs & Ballads, Op. 3 (Sung in English): No. 4, It Changes What We’re Seeing (02:00)
9. Lucy Stevens – 5 Songs & Ballads, Op. 3 (Sung in English): No. 5, Fair Rohtraut (03:01)
10. Lucy Stevens – Lieder, Op. 4: No. 1, Tanzlied (02:47)
11. Lucy Stevens – Lieder, Op. 4: No. 2, Schlummerlied (03:57)
12. Lucy Stevens – Lieder, Op. 4: No. 3, Mittagsruh (02:13)
13. Lucy Stevens – Lieder, Op. 4: No. 4, Nachtreiter (02:12)
14. Lucy Stevens – Lieder, Op. 4: No. 5, Nachtgedanken (04:14)
15. Lucy Stevens – 3 Songs: No. 1, The Clown (03:28)
16. Lucy Stevens – 3 Songs: No. 2, Possession (04:39)
17. Lucy Stevens – 3 Songs: No. 3, On the Road (05:28)
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