Divine Music – An English Songbook
- Release year
- 2023
- Label
- Signum Classics
- Catalogue number
- SIGCD725
- Thomas Adès’s role
- Composer
Details and credits
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Joseph Middleton (piano). Adès repertoire: Four Songs (Purcell realisations: By Beauteous Softness, Come unto These Yellow Sands, Full Fathom Five and An Evening Hymn); The Lover in Winter; Coffee-Spoon Cavatina from The Exterminating Angel. Also music by Croft, Purcell/Britten, Muhly, Howells and Butterworth. The Coffee-Spoon Cavatina is also titled Spoons Aria.
Release credits: Iestyn Davies; Joseph Middleton
Thomas Adès: composer
Programme:
1. Henry Purcell: Lord, What Is Man?
Henry Purcell: Four Songs
2. I. By Beauteous Softness
3. II. Come Unto These Yellow Sands
4. III. Full Fathom Five
5. IV. Evening Hymn
6. William Croft: A Hymn On Divine Music
7. Nico Muhly: New-Made Tongue
8. Henry Purcell: I’ll Sail Upon The Dog-Star
9. Herbert Howells: King David
10. Nico Muhly: Old Bones
Thomas Adès: The Lover In Winter
11. I. Iam Nocet Frigus
12. II. Nec Limpha Caret
13. III. Modo Frigescit
14. IV. Nutritur Ignis Osculo
George Butterworth: Six Songs From ‘A Shropshire Lad’
15. I. Loveliest Of Trees
16. II. When I Was One And Twenty
17. III. Look Not In My Eyes
18. IV. Think No More Lad
19. V. The Lads In Their Hundreds
20. VI. Is My Team Ploughing?
Nico Muhly: Four Traditional Songs
21. I. A Brisk Young Lad
22. II. Searching For Lambs
23. III. The Cruel Mother
24. IV. The Bitter Withy
25. Thomas Adès: Coffee-Spoon Cavatina (From The Exterminating Angel)
Credited participation:
Arranged By [Arr.] — Four Songs
Composed By — The Lover In Winter
Composed By — Coffee-Spoon Cavatina (From The Exterminating Angel)
Compositions
- Coffee-Spoon Cavatina — 2016
- Four Songs — 2012/2017
- The Lover in Winter — 1989