Roderick Williams & Susie Allan - Somervell: Maud & A Shropshire Lad (2020)
FLAC tracks | 01:02:26 | 225 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Somm Recordings
English song cycles by Sir Arthur Somervell Maud and A Shropshire Lad from the acclaimed partnership of baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan. Hailed as the English Schumann for his mastery of song setting, song cycles in particular, Somervells music is marked by a distinctive blend of lyricism and harmony that makes itself indelibly felt in these two seminal works of the English song repertoire. His first cycle, Maud, setting 13 poems from Alfred, Lord Tennysons dark monodrama, was first performed in 1899 at the height of a fashion for recitals of songs sung in English. An intense, impassioned portrayal of infatuation, it is marked by remarkably eloquent and revealing relationships between voice and text, and voice and piano.