Internationally-renowned chamber choir Tenebrae return with a new collection of British part songs and choral works. As well as being a celebration of compositions by British composers, the disc also marks Shakespeare’s anniversary year with a selection of works based on his texts, including the much loved works by Vaughan Williams and a lesser-known set by Herbert Murrill. Perhaps the least recognisable composer name on this disc, Murrill (1909-1952) is one of a select group of composers who – through war or ill-health – died at a tragically young age and whose works were subsequently neglected during the second half of the century.
Tenebrae
Nigel Short conductor
Martha McLorinan mezzo-soprano
RELEASE DATE: 30/09/2016
CATALOGUE NUMBER: SIGCD904
BARCODE: 635212090428
Two Songs from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Herbert Murrill
1. O Mistress Mine
2. Come Away, Death
3. Autumn Frank Bridge
4. Music, When Soft Voices Die Frank Bridge
5. The Bee Frank Bridge
Three Shakespeare Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams
6. Full Fathom Five
7. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers
8. Over Hill, Over Dale
Four Part-Songs, Op. 54
Edward Elgar
9. There is Sweet Music
10. Deep in My Soul
11. O Wild, West Wind
12. Owls
13. Soft Music Ernest Walker
14. The Drowned Lovers Judith Bingham
15. The Blue Bird, Op. 119 Charles Villiers Stanford
16. On Time, Op. 142 Charles Villiers Stanford
17. Song of June Jonathan Harvey
The Modern Man I Sing
Bob Chilcott
18. The Runner
19. The Last Invocation
20. Ones-Self I Sing
