Sharon Carty, Morgan Pearse, BBC Concert Orchestra & John Andrews – Stanford: Orchestral Songs (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Sharon Carty, Morgan Pearse, BBC Concert Orchestra & John Andrews – Stanford: Orchestral Songs (2024)
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Charles Villiers Stanford felt a special affinity for the orchestral song, an idiom which began to establish itself as a distinct art form in its own right at the end of the nineteenth century with composers such as Mahler, Richard Strauss, Elgar and Bantock. This recording, released to mark the composer’s centenary year, features a wide selection of colourful and inventive orchestrations he made of his own songs and arrangements of Irish folk melodies for the concert hall, many of which were made for the leading soloists of the days such as Harry Plunket Greene, David Bispham, Marie Brema and Olga Michailoff (the wife of Henry Wood).

Tracklist:
1. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures, Op. 77 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, A Fairy Lough (03:43)
2. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: The Clown’s Songs from “Twelfth Night”, Op. 65 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): II. Come Away Death (03:34)
3. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Is it the Wind of the Dawn (Version for Voices & Orchestra) (02:42)
4. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: La Belle Dame sans merci (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Jeremy Dibble) (06:46)
5. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 4, I Think that We Were Children (03:32)
6. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 3, When in Solemn Stillness (03:53)
7. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 5, O Flames of Passion (02:29)
8. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Three Cavalier Songs, Op. 17 (Version for Mezzo-Soprano): I. Marching Along (02:32)
9. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Three Cavalier Songs, Op. 17 (Version for Mezzo-Soprano): II. King Charles (02:00)
10. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Three Cavalier Songs, Op. 17 (Version for Mezzo-Soprano): III. Boot, Saddle, To Horse (01:56)
11. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Faith, Op. 97, Set 2 (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Jeremy Dibble): I. To the Soul (03:31)
12. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Faith, Op. 97, Set 2 (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Jeremy Dibble): II. Tears! tears! tears (04:41)
13. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Faith, Op. 97, Set 2 (Arr. for Voice & Orchestra by Jeremy Dibble): III. Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (01:50)
14. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Irish Songs and Ballads (Version for Voice & Orchestra): Chieftain of Tyrconnell (03:22)
15. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Old Ireland (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 34, The Foggy Dew (02:40)
16. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Old Ireland (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 42, When She Answered Me (01:47)
17. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: O Ye Dead (Version for Voice & Orchestra) (04:00)
18. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Old Ireland (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 6, Battle Hymn (01:21)
19. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Old Ireland (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 22, Lament for O R O’Neill (03:35)
20. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Old Ireland (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 2, Emer’s Farewell to Cucullain (04:16)
21. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Songs of Erin, Op. 76 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): No. 22, The Alarm (01:34)
22. Sharon Carty & Morgan Pearse – Stanford: Bible Songs, Op. 113 (Version for Voice & Orchestra): III. A Song of Hope (07:03)

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