Ailish Tynan, Roderick Williams, Kathryn Rudge & Christopher Glynn – Schumann in English, Vol. 1 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:26 minutes | 2,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christopher Glynn continues his Lieder in English series by joining three of today’s foremost singers to perform Robert Schumann’s best-loved song cycles in new English versions by Jeremy Sams – a new way to encounter and enjoy some of the most romantic and atmospheric songs ever composed.
‘Schumann is one of music’s great storytellers – and never more so than in the song cycles of 1840. These vivid new translations by Jeremy Sams recreate the immediacy and intimacy of his storytelling for modern English-speaking listeners, offering a new perspective on these famous songs of loneliness and love, joy and sorrow, marriage, and separation.’ – Christopher Glynn
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Nicky Spence, Christopher Glynn – Schubert: The Fair Maid of the Mill (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:23 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christopher Glynn continues his series of Schubert in English releases with a new recording of ‘The Fair Maid of the Mill’ (Die schöne Müllerin) with acclaimed Scottish tenor Nicky Spence. Set to a new translation by writer and director Jeremy Sams, Willhelm Müller’s direct and emotionally-charged poetry became the basis of Schubert’s first cycle to tell a complete story over the course of its 20 songs. Nicky Spence is one of Scotland’s proudest sons and his unique skills as a singing actor and the rare honesty of his musicianship have earned him a place at the top of the classical music profession. Nicky won a record contract with Decca records while still studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and then took a place as an inaugural Harewood Artist at the ENO. Christopher Glynn is a Grammy award-winning pianist, praised for his ‘breathtaking sensitivity’ (Gramophone), ‘irre- pressible energy, wit and finesse’ (The Guardian) and ‘perfect fusion of voice and piano’ (BBC Music Magazine). He is also Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, where he has been praised as a ‘visionary’ and ‘inspired programmer’ (The Times).
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Christopher Glynn, Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce – Schubert in English Vol. 4 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:41 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christopher Glynn continues his series “Schubert in English” and, together with baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Rowan Pierce, sings songs about loneliness and companionship, nature and the seasons, faith and doubt, wandering and homecoming, caution and comfort – all in new English versions by Jeremy Sams.
“No songwriter has more to say to us than Schubert. I have commissioned these new translations in the hope of making his songs accessible to a wider audience and also to offer a new perspective to those who know them well.
“A good translation is an act of homage – a retelling, not a substitute – and, like the film adaptation of a classic novel, can be a stepping stone to the original or can also be enjoyed on its own.
“We hope that listeners will enjoy these new versions, in which Jeremy Sams restores the immediacy of Schubert’s narrative for a modern English-speaking audience.” (Christopher Glynn)
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Christopher Glynn, Nick Pritchard, Isabelle Haile – Songs for Our Times (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:35 minutes | 820 MB | Genre: Classical
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In these two premiere recordings Kingdoms and Metropolis, the stories will be familiar to many with their universal subjects, including the need for wisdom within the halls of power; transcendent love; an immigrant’s homesickness; the search for inner peace; all flow through the album evoking the spirit of our day and age. Despite our current turmoil, the overall tone of the album is a hopeful one, making it a welcome balm during our turbulent times.
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Ailish Tynan, Christopher Glynn, Ian Wilson, Katie Bray, Marcus Farnsworth, Mark Eden – Stephen Dodgson: The Distances Between, Songs, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:52 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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SOMM Recordings announces The Distances Between, the second volume of songs – including 17 first recordings – by Stephen Dodgson marking the 10th anniversary of his death. The Distances Between features soprano Ailish Tynan, mezzo-soprano Katie Bray and baritone Marcus Farnsworth, accompanied by Christopher Glynn (piano), Mark Eden (guitar) and Ian Wilson (recorder). All but Farnsworth are returning from Volume 1.
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Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn – Schubert: Winter Journey (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:18 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Celebrated soloists Roderick Wiliams and Christopher Glynn perform a new English translation Franz Schubert’s Winterreise. Composed in 1827 whilst in the grip of the illness that would ultimately kill him, Schubert’s setting of Wilhelm Muller’s poetry takes on an added tragic interpretation as it follows the narrative of a spurned lover travelling through a cold and barren landscape.
Christopher Glynn writes on this new recording:
“We hope this Winter Journey can offer English-speaking listeners a way to experience the story’s sense alongside the music’s sound, with something of the same directness that Schubert surely intended when he sat down at the piano in 1827 and sang these songs for the first time to his friends.”
This disc is the first in a series of three English language programmes of Schubert’s song cycles. Future releases include The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen) and The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin).
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Rachel Podger, Christopher Glynn – Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 12 No. 1, Op. 24 & Op. 96 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:16 minutes | 2,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn recorded Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano Nos. 1, 5 and 10. Following the critically acclaimed Mozart/Jones Sonatas “Fragment Completions” (2021), this Beethoven album marks Podger & Glynn’s second release together.
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Matthew Gee & Christopher Glynn – Trombone Travels, Vol. 2: Songs of Travel (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:32 minutes | 1018 MB | Genre: Classical
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This second volume of “Trombone Travels” continues with Matthew Gee’s exploration of three great cycles of early 20th-century British song. Elgar’s Sea Pictures evoke lullaby and turbulence alike, Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel chart a wanderer’s lonely journey through the landscape, and in Songs of the Sea Stanford’s music embraces both the sombre and the exhilarating, with Gee joined by a trombone chorus to emulate the male voice choir. Throughout the recital Gee lavishes colouristic effects, the use of mutes, and subtle inflections that reinforce the trombone’s unique ability to mimic vocal techniques.
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Kathryn Rudge & Christopher Glynn – Songs by Sir Hamilton Harty (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:11:25 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce 17 world premiere recordings of Songs by Hamilton Harty in a ravishing recital by one of todays most exciting young partnerships mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and pianist Christopher Glynn. Although best known today as a composer of orchestral music, Hamilton Harty was also one of the most accomplished accompanists of his generation, forming especially notable partnerships with the sopranos Agnes Nicholls and Elsie Swinton. It prompted, in turn, his increasing activity as an accomplished song writer. The 23 featured songs include settings that speak eloquently of Hartys abiding engagement with his Irish heritage and point, in the technical demands made of vocalist and pianist alike, to his innate understanding of the song form in all its concentrated, emotional power. Favourite Harty songs such as Sea Wrack, The Blue Hills of Antrim and My Lagan Love are heard alongside settings of Walt Whitman (By the Bivouacs Fitful Flame), Thomas Campion (Come, O Come, My Hearts Delight) and two texts by the composer himself (My Thoughts of You and Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis). Also included are two early, unpublished works for solo piano Idyll and Arlequin and Columbine. Five songs are heard in new editions created from original manuscripts by British music authority Jeremy Dibble who also provides informative booklet notes.
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Julia Sitkovetsky & Christopher Glynn – Where Corals Lie, A Journey through Songs by Sir Edward Elgar (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:38 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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Working in an era before Arts Council grants, public sponsorship, recording royalties, and long-term publishing deals, Elgar had to write for the public demand as much as personal satisfaction. The effort required for his large-scale works was rarely reflected in profitable income, so writing songs could be a useful way to earn money. The England of Elgar’s time favoured popular ballads, sung by well-known singers. These were then sold as sheet music, the singer’s name emblazoned on the cover, for performances given in middle-class homes. There was little demand for lengthy song cycles, or song recitals consisting entirely of “serious” repertoire in the German tradition. As a result, Elgar’s songs are often individual works, sometimes adapting instrumental works into songs (such as Land of Hope and Glory) when the commercial opportunities arose. Elgar also chose poetry that was popular and straightforward, rather than drawing on the established classical masterpieces. These songs were then transposed into numerous keys to allow performance by any voice type, designed for mass appeal and profitable sales.
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Claire Booth & Christopher Glynn – Percy Grainger: Folk Songs (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:08 minutes | 903 MB | Genre: Classical
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Australian-born Percy Grainger was among the most original and free-thinking of twentieth-century composers, a multi-talented musician with outstanding gifts as colourful creator, precocious pianist, world traveller, writer and ethnographer whose fertile mind produced an expansive œuvre of highly inventive works. Star soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn explore Grainger’s fascinating and multifaceted folk song output, a tribute to the composer’s most enduring musical endeavour, i.e. the exploration and dissemination of folk music – in the present case, songs from the British Isles he has collected and written out the discreet but efficient harmonizations of. Grainger’s success resulted among others in multiple versions of his settings, for orchestra, wind band, chamber ensemble and choir. But it’s perhaps his versions for voice and piano that are the most characteristic, bringing out Grainger’s own highly individual style at the keyboard. The album concludes with Grainger’s most celebrated non-vocal piece, English Country Gardens, in which Claire Booth makes a cameo appearance on the piano, joining Christopher Glynn in a rousing duet.
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Claire Booth & Christopher Glynn – Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Soprano Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn follow their critically acclaimed collaborations Percy Grainger: Folk Music and Edvard Grieg: Lyric Music with Modest Mussorgsky: Unorthodox Music, interspersing a selection of the Russian composer’s under-represented songs with solo piano works.
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Christopher Glynn, Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Julian Bliss, Alec Frank-Gemmill – Schubert: Swansong (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:40 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Christopher Glynn continues his series of late Schubert song cycles in English, joined by celebrated soloists Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Julian Bliss and Alec Frank-Gemmill.
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