Wild Cyclamen Clare McCaldin
Album info
Album-Release:
2015
HRA-Release:
28.05.2015
Label: NMC Recordings
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Clare McCaldin, James Gilchrist, Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside, Simon Lepper
Composer: Hugh Bradshaw Wood (1932-)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- Hugh Bradshaw Wood (1932-): Laurie Lee Songs
- 1No. 1. Boy in Ice02:57
- 2No. 2. The Edge of Day02:17
- 3No. 3. The Easter Green02:31
- 4No. 4. Town Owl03:14
- 5No. 5. April Rise03:45
- DH Lawrence Songs:
- 6No. 1. Dog-tired02:29
- 7No. 2. Kisses in the Train01:50
- 8No. 3. Roses on the breakfast table03:04
- 9No. 4. Gloire de Dijon02:07
- 10No. 5. River Roses03:01
- The Isles of Greece:
- 11No. 1. Delos02:36
- 12No. 2. Nemea02:44
- 13No. 3. Ouzo Unclouded00:45
- 14No. 4. In the Sea Caves01:43
- 15No. 5. The Isles of Greece02:00
- 16No. 6. Bitter Lemons02:41
- Wild Cyclamen:
- 17No. 1. A Dream of Frances Speedwell01:57
- 18No. 2. Wild Cyclamen01:28
- 19No. 3. Beatrice and Dante02:33
- 20No. 4. The Garden01:38
- 21No. 5. The Leap00:37
- 22No. 6. Not to Sleep01:54
- 23No. 7. The Crab-Tree02:16
- 24No. 8. Bites and Kisses01:38
- 25No. 9. Horizon03:02
- 26No. 10. The Window Sill02:58
- 27No. 11. A Lost Jewel01:18
- 28No. 12. Hedges Freaked with Snow01:58
Info for Wild Cyclamen
Composer Hugh Wood is known for his powerfully communicative and lyrical music and this latest release presents a selection of songs spanning his career. They are set to poems by DH Lawrence, Robert Graves, Laurie Lee and Lawrence Durrell, exploring themes of youth, love, lust and longing.
Wild Cyclamen (2006) – a song-cycle from twelve individual, unrelated poems by Robert Graves – depicts the rise and fall of a love affair. Hugh Wood explains: “Graves wrote no such cycle but I’ve dared to construct one. It doesn’t achieve too strong a story-line, but the songs are meant to be sung in a fixed order”.
The DH Lawrence settings (1998) include three poems Lawrence wrote about his days with Frieda in Bavaria and the Isles of Greece (2007) is a compilation of poems celebrating various aspects of Greek life and its people.
The earliest works on this recording are the Laurie Lee Songs (1956-58) written when Hugh was in his mid-twenties.
“Wood has produced more than a dozen voice-and-piano works, and here are four: three collections and a song cycle proper. The five Laurie Lee Songs, dating back to 1958, come over with a post-Brittenish freshness.” (Sunday Times, UK)
“Wood is nothing if not a craftsman, and his vocal lines are always skilful amplifications of the text while his idiomatically written piano parts set the voice off to its best advantage” (BBC Music Magazine)
Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Simon Lepper, piano
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