Charles Villiers Stanford: Orchestral Songs

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).

1: A Fairy Lough
2: Come Away Death
3: Is It the Wind of the Dawn?
4: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
5: I Think That We Were Children
6: When in Solemn Stillness
7: O Flames of Passion
8: Marching Along
9: King Charles
10: Boot, Saddle, to Horse
11: To the Soul
12: Tears
13: Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
14: Chieftain of Tyrconnell
15: The Foggy Dew
16: When She Answered Me
17: O Ye Dead
18: Battle Hymn
19: Lament for O R O'Neill
20: Emer's Farewell to Cucullain
21: The Alarm
22: A Song of Hope

Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

Conductor: John Andrews

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra

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