Epoch has gathered five pieces by British composers written in response to the Great War. There is no chest-thumping nationalism evident here, but deeply sad portraits of the devastation of war. The centerpiece is Elgar's three-movement cantata, The Spirit of England, for soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra, based on freshly written poetry by ...
The BBC Singers, led by Stephen Cleobury, perform a variety of choral pieces by Michael Tippett, written between the late '30s and early '60s. They sing with a uniformly pure and well-blended tone and negotiate Tippett's knotty dissonances with assurance. Due to the composer's predilection for dense harmonies, there are moments of textural ...
Even those who think they know Elgar will have to check their shelves twice to make sure they have the works on this disc. While there have been multiple recordings of the English composer's symphonies and concertos over the years, there have been very few recordings indeed of his part songs. This recording with the Cambridge University Chamber ...
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