John Pickard: Songs for Voice and Piano
The English composer John Pickard (b. 1963) is best known for a series of powerful orchestral works, five symphonies among them. But this album of songs – his complete output for voice and piano to date – demonstrates that he can generate drama on a smaller scale, too. These settings – of two less familiar poets of the First World War, often exploring man’s relationship with nature, and a translation of a ninth-century Anglo-Saxon phantasmagorical allegory – encompass a wide range of moods, requiring soaring vocal lines, declamatory authority and the gentlest intimacy, supported by piano textures that can are up in freewheeling virtuosity.
Roderick Williams, baritone (Tracks 1-5, 7-15)
Eve Daniell, soprano (Track 6)
Simon Lepper, piano
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Binyon Songs (2010–12)
- Binyon Songs: I Nature
- Binyon Songs: II Sowing Seed
- Binyon Songs: III Autumn Song
- Binyon Songs: IV When all the world is hidden
- Binyon Songs: V The Burning of the Leaves
- The Phoenix
- The Borders of Sleep: I Tall Nettles
- The Borders of Sleep: II The Trumpet
- The Borders of Sleep: III The Mill-Water
- The Borders of Sleep: IV Out in the Dark
- The Borders of Sleep: V The Gallows
- The Borders of Sleep: VI Rain
- The Borders of Sleep: VII No One Cares Less Than I
- The Borders of Sleep: VIII Last Poem (The Sorrow of True Love)
- The Borders of Sleep: IX Lights Out
The Phoenix (1992)
The Borders of Sleep (2000–1)
FIRST RECORDINGS
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