New Album Releases: UNVEILED (Elgan Llyr Thomas, Iain Burnside, Craig Ogden)

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Artist:
Elgan Llyr Thomas
Iain Burnside
Craig Ogden

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
63:44

Record Label:
Delphian Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
June 23, 2023




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Product Description: In Jeremy Sams' new English-language singing version of Britten's Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the passionate sentiments are liberated from the safe historical distance of the Italian Renaissance and unveiled in a way that was not possible in 1940, when Britten wrote the cycle - his first for his partner Peter Pears. Tenor Elgan Llyr Thomas presents it alongside Michael Tippett's equally ardent Songs for Achilles and a short item by W. Denis Browne, a close friend of the poet Rupert Brooke, as well as premiere recordings of four Brooke settings by Ruth Gipps and a new song-cycle by Thomas himself, to poems by Andrew McMillan. Tackling themes of love, shame, acceptance, war and death, the programme traverses a history of male homosexuality from necessary discretion to the (relatively) liberated present.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 1, Sonetto XVI Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:22)

2 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 2, Sonetto XXXI Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:43)

3 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 3, Sonetto XXX Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (03:49)

4 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 4, Sonnetto LV Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:00)

5 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 5, Sonnetto XXXVIII Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:08)

6 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 6, Sonnetto XXXII Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:31)

7 . Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 7, Sonnetto XXIV Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (04:23)

8 . Four Songs of Youth: No. 1, Failure Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:38)

9 . Four Songs of Youth: No. 2, Unfortunate Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:45)

10 . Four Songs of Youth: No. 3, The Dance Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:19)

11 . Four Songs of Youth: No. 4, Peace 1914 . Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (03:07)

12 . To Gratiana dancing and singing (Pavan) Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (04:00)

13 . Songs for Achilles: No. 1, In the Tent Elgan Llyr Thomas & Craig Ogden (05:15)

14 . Songs for Achilles: No. 2, Across the Plain Elgan Llyr Thomas & Craig Ogden (03:43)

15 . Songs for Achilles: No. 3, By the Sea Elgan Llyr Thomas & Craig Ogden (06:38)

16 . Swan: I. the lake is calm tonight Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:16)

17 . Swan: II. my first time in water Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:17)

18 . Swan: III. then the year everything was swan Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:27)

19 . Swan: IV. the black swan of debt Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:12)

20 . Swan: V. then the year everything was darkness Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (02:11)

21 . Swan: VI. 'sing a swan of sixpence' Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (01:12)

22 . Swan: VII. [queen]. mother don't eat me Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (03:05)

23 .Swan: VIII. I plucked each feather from myself Elgan Llyr Thomas & Iain Burnside (03:56)

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