Nick Pritchard - Little Wanderer - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'Little Wanderer', from William Blake's dream world, seemed the perfect title for an album in which we are surrounded by myriad landscapes in songs by Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Daniel Kidane. Since meeting on our first day at the Royal College of Music, we have long enjoyed programming Britten's masterful folk song reimaginings, and we adore the texts and music in his powerful Hardy cycle, Winter Words. It has been a joy to discover songs by Imogen Holst, Britten's close friend and assistant, and we are proud to be able to make the first recording of Dan's Songs of Illumination, commissioned for us by Leeds Lieder in 2018. For over a decade, song in English has played a major part in our musical lives and performing relationship, and we are delighted to present this programme together. Album Tracks 1. Winter Words, Op. 52~1. At Day-Close in November 2. Winter Words, Op. 52~2. Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy) 3. Winter Words, Op. 52~3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire) 4. Winter Words, Op. 52~4. The Little Old Table 5. Winter Words, Op. 52~5. The Choirmaster’s Burial (or The Tenor Man’s Story) 6. Winter Words, Op. 52~6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales) 7. Winter Words, Op. 52~7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin) 8. Winter Words, Op. 52~8. Before Life and After 9. Four Songs~Brittle Beauty 10. Four Songs~Why fearest thou thy outward foe? 11. Four Songs~Shall I thus ever long? 12. Four Songs~As lawrell leaves 13. Little think’st thou 14. Weathers 15. Songs of Illumination~A Dream 16. Songs of Illumination~The Land of Dreams 17. Songs of Illumination~The Little Black Boy 18. Folksong Arrangements~Sally in our Alley 19. Ploughboy 20. Last Rose of Summer 21. How Sweet the Answer 22. Ca’ the Yowes 23. Oliver Cromwell