Milhofer Scolastra: Complete Folk Songs - COMPACT DISCS
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Artist: Milhofer Scolastra
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421960098
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2021-02-12
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK
It was probably Peter Pears, Britten's partner in music and life, who drew the composer's attention to the rich heritage of English folksong and it's attractions, as a way to introduce texture, variety and a lighter tone to their song recitals together during the 1940s. According to the tenor, Britten 'wanted to recreate these melodies with their texts for concert performance, to make them art-songs... he therefore takes the tune as if he had written it himself and thinks himself back as to how he would turn it into a song.' Thus the piano parts are no mere accompaniments but highly wrought, deftly illustrative comments on the texts and stories of love and country life. In cases such as The Foggy, Foggy Dew and O Waly, Waly, Britten's arrangements have become better known than any 'original' version; they have assumed the identity of the song in the popular imagination, and the distinctive voice of Pears singing them imprinted itself on the imaginations of countless music-lovers in the second half of the last century. However, the songs retain their place in the concert repertoire of many young singers, often as more than encore material, and they admit a rich variety of interpretative approaches. The tenor Mark Milhofer has previously taken part in Brilliant Classics surveys of the complete song output of Alban Berg (95549) and Francesco Tosti (Vol.1 - 95201), with the Berg attracting particularly enthusiastic praise: 'Totally absorbing... convincingly performed from the first note to the last. Each performer brings sincerity and enthusiasm to this varied repertoire. The recording is ideal' (MusicWeb International).
Tracks:
1.1 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-I Wonder As I Wander
1.2 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-The Salley Gardens
1.3 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-Little Sir William
1.4 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-The Bonny Earl O' Moray
1.5 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-O Can Ye Sew Cushions?
1.6 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-The Trees They Grow So High
1.7 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-The Ash Grove
1.8 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 1-Oliver Cromwell
1.9 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-The Crocodile
1.10 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-Greensleeves
1.11 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-The Holly and the Ivy
1.12 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-La Noel Passée
1.13 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-Voici Le Printemps
1.14 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-Fileuse
1.15 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-Le Roi S'en Va-T'en Chasse
1.16 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-La Belle Est Au Jardin D'amour
1.17 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-Il Est Quelqu'un Sur Terre
1.18 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-Eho! Eho!
1.19 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 2-Quand J'etais Chez Mon Pere
1.20 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-The Plough Boy
1.21 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-There's None to Soothe
1.22 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-Sweet Polly Oliver
1.23 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-The Miller of Dee
1.24 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-The Foggy, Foggy Dew
1.25 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-The Stream in the Valley
2.1 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-O Waly, Waly
2.2 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3-Come You Not from Newcastle?
2.3 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-Pray Goody
2.4 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-The Deaf Woman's Courtship
2.5 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-At the Mid Hour of Night
2.6 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-Rich and Rare
2.7 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-Dear Harp of My Country!
2.8 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-The Last Rose of Summer
2.9 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-O the Sight Entrancing
2.10 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-Avenging and Bright
2.11 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-Sail on, Sail on
2.12 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-How Sweet the Answer
2.13 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-The Minstrel Boy
2.14 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4-Oft in the Stilly Night
2.15 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-Soldier, Won't You Marry Me?
2.16 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 5-The Brisk Young Widow
2.17 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 5-Sally in Our Alley
2.18 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 5-The Lincolnshire Poacher
2.19 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 5-Early One Morning
2.20 Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 5-Ca' the Yowes
2.21 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-Tom Bowling
2.22 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements-Dink's Song
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