Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Stanford: Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense (2021)
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Somm beginns here a major new recording of songs by Charles Villiers Stanford including the first complete recording of Songs of Faith and 12 first recordings of other distinctively vital songs.

Setting poems by Tennyson and Walt Whitman, Songs of Faith demonstrates Stanford’s ability to give unique expression to the profound and the arcane with music of dramatic force and harmonic ingenuity. Three songs by Robert Bridges (librettist for Stanford’s oratorio Eden) and four songs from the opera Shamus O’Brien tap into Stanford’s Irish roots to colourful and evocative effect. Composed to mark his 25th wedding anniversary and receiving its first recording, The Triumph of Love sets five sonnets by his close cousin, Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes, in richly executed settings.

The delightful Nonsense Rhymes taken from Edward Lear’s inimitably playful, poignant and pointed limericks show a different side to Stanford, a “highly articulate, dry humour like many literary Irishmen of his era”, as Jeremy Dibble says in his authoritative booklet notes.

Tracklist:
01. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Songs of Faith, Op. 97: Set 1 – No. 1, Strong Son of God (01:53)
02. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Songs of Faith, Op. 97: Set 1 – No. 2, God and the Universe (04:06)
03. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Songs of Faith, Op. 97: Set 1 – No. 3, Faith (02:41)
04. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Songs of Faith, Op. 97: Set 2 – No. 4, To the Soul (04:04)
05. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Songs of Faith, Op. 97: Set 2 – No. 5, Tears! (04:26)
06. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Songs of Faith, Op. 97: Set 2 – No. 6, Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (01:52)
07. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43: No. 1, Since Thou, O Fondest and Truest (02:24)
08. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43: No. 2, I Praise the Tender Flower (02:24)
09. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43: No. 3, Say, O Say! Saith the Music (02:43)
10. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Shamus O’Brien, Op. 61 (Excerpts): My Heart Is Thrall (03:49)
11. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Shamus O’Brien, Op. 61 (Excerpts): Glengall (02:31)
12. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Shamus O’Brien, Op. 61 (Excerpts): Ochone, When I Used to Be Young (02:51)
13. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Shamus O’Brien, Op. 61 (Excerpts): I Love My Ould Ireland (02:03)
14. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 1, The Hardy Norsewoman, Op. 365 (00:53)
15. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 2, The Compleat Virtuoso, Op. 366 (01:12)
16. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 3, The Absent Barber, Op. 367 (04:09)
17. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 4, The Cow and the Coward, Op. 368 (01:35)
18. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 5, Barkerolle, Op. 369 (1) (00:56)
19. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 6, Dithyramb, Op. 370 (01:27)
20. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 7, The Generous Parishioner, Op. 371 (02:06)
21. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 8, Limmerich ohne Worte, Op. 372 (00:52)
22. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 9, Boat Song, Op. 373 (01:46)
23. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 10, Nileinsamkeit, Op. 374 (01:22)
24. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 11, The Aquiline Snub, Op. 375 (01:43)
25. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 12, Tone Poem, Op. 376 (01:34)
26. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 13, Gongdichtung, Op. 377 (02:48)
27. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 14, A Visit of Elizabeth, Op. 378 (01:37)
28. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82: No. 1, O One Deep Sacred Outlet of My Soul (02:24)
29. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82: No. 2, Like as the Thrush in Winter (03:11)
30. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82: No. 3, When in the Solemn Stillness of the Night (04:20)
31. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82: No. 4, I Think That We Were Children (03:20)
32. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – 5 Sonnets from “The Triumph of Love”, Op. 82: No. 5, O Flames of Passion (02:33)
33. Roderick Williams, James Way, Andrew West – Nonsense Rhymes: No. 5, Barkerolle, Op. 369 (2) (00:59)

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