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FOUR SONGS OF TIME'S RETURN OXCD-141
Carys Lane (Soprano), Giles Underwood (Baritone), Oxford Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Goode.
Recorded in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on 21 October 2017.
Music by David Goode, Words by Francis Warner.
Score and CD available from Colin Smythe Publishers.
1. Dolente
2. Amabile
3. Brillante
4. Rhapsody
Song Cycle. David Goode's setting for soprano and baritone, and piano of four extracts from Francis Warner's poems, the sections titled Fire, Earth, Water and Air. Fire reflects his schoolboy desire to become a blacksmith, during the extremely cold winter of 1946-47; Earth - ‘Amabile’ - is the speech of Simonetta as Primavera from Living Creation, his play on Botticelli and Medici Florence; Water, Summer, recalls the June Concert on the river Cam by Clare Bridge sung by the Cambridge University Madrigal Choir; and Air, the climax of his 1961 poem Perennia, a duet.
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