Delius: Sea Drift, Songs of Farewell, Songs of Sunset

專輯編號： CHAN10868

專輯類型：單CD

發行年份： 2015

國際條碼： 0095115186824

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This set of Delius’s masterpieces conducted by Hickox was recorded in 1993 and won a Gramophone Award in the choral category the following year, also the Penguin Guide ranking it in the 1000 Greatest Classical Recordings, stating that ‘in this second recording of Delius’s masterpieces Hickox finds even more magic, again taking a spacious view - which keeps the flow of the music going magnetically’.

Both Sea Drift (1903-04) and Songs of Sunset (1906-07) belong to the fertile decade following the turn of the century when Delius had assumed complete maturity and was producing a string of masterpieces. If in Sea Drift it is the emotions of bereavement in the wake of tragedy that are explored, in Songs of Sunset it is the brevity of life as epitomised by the work’s original title, Songs of Twilight and Sadness.

By the time he created Songs of Farewell (1929-30), Delius was blind, crippled and helpless. As a composer he had been mute since the early 1920’s, until the offer from a young musician, Eric Fenby, to be his amanuensis kindled the sparks of creativity once more. Songs of Farewell, for double chorus and orchestra, was the finest achievement of this late harvest.

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

1 Sea Drift 26:00
      for baritone, chorus and orchestra
Bryn Terfel baritone

Songs of Farewell 18:04
      for double chorus and orchestra
2 I Double Chorus: 'How sweet the silent backward tracings!' 4:28
3 II Chorus: 'I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak' 4:39
4 III Chorus: 'Passage to you! O secret of the earth and sky!' 3:33
5 IV Double Chorus: 'Joy, shipmate, joy!' 1:31
6 V Chorus: 'Now final' 3:50

Songs of Sunset 32:59
      for mezzo-soprano, baritone, chorus, and orchestra
7 Chorus: 'A song of the setting sun!' - 3:24
8 Soli: 'Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad' - 4:46
9 Chorus: 'Pale amber sunlight falls' - 4:26
10 Mezzo-soprano: 'Exceeding sorrow Consumeth my sad heart!' - 3:43
11 Baritone: 'By the sad waters of separation' - 4:49
12 Chorus: 'See how the trees and the osiers lithe' - 3:35
13 Baritone: 'I was not sorrowful, I could not weep' - 4:46
14 Soli, Chorus: 'They are not long, the weeping and the laughter'

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