{"product_id":"various-artists-dreams-melting","title":"Various Artists: Dreams Melting - COMPACT DISCS","description":"\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDreams Melting\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eArtist: \u003c\/b\u003eVarious Artists\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eLabel: \u003c\/b\u003eSomm Recordings\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eProduct Type: \u003c\/b\u003eCOMPACT DISCS\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eUPC: \u003c\/b\u003e748871063020\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/b\u003e2021-04-02\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \u003cb\u003eNumber of Discs: \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \u003cbr\u003e\n                                         \n                                         \n                                         SOMM RECORDINGS is pleased to announce Dreams Melting, a revealing survey of British songs from the early 20th century by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley. At the recital's heart are two substantial cycles. Setting seven poems by Thomas Hardy, Gerald Finzi's Till Earth Outwears provides an intimate and movingly melancholic commentary in what Ronald Woodley describes in his extensive and informative booklet notes as a \"male perspective on life, love and loss\". Rarely recorded, Howard Ferguson's five-part treatment of Denton Welch's poems, Discovery, typifies \"the subtlety of the relationship between late romanticism, modernism and the inherited idioms of 'Britishness' that composers of Ferguson's generation inevitably grew up with\". It's second song, 'Dreams Melting', provides the recital's title. Three songs make their first appearance on disc. Elizabeth Maconchy's setting of John Donne's passionate but tortured A Hymn to God the Father boasts a searching vocal line underpinned by tellingly interrogative piano. Phyllis Tate's The Falcon is a sparse but powerful setting of an anonymous medieval text while her variegated treatment of William Blake's poem Cradle Song is reminiscent of a Bartók folksong arrangement. Also heard are Maconchy's Four Shakespeare Songs and settings of Ben Jonson's Have You Seen but a Bright Lily Grow? and Robert Herrick's A Meditation for his Mistress, alongside six varied and vital songs by Rebecca Clarke, including The Seal Man, \"one of her most soaring flights of imagination\", and Tate's Epitaph, in which her \"quietly understated writing is masterly\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.1 Discovery~Dreams Melting \u003cbr\u003e1.2 Discovery~The Freedom of the City \u003cbr\u003e1.3 Discovery~Babylon \u003cbr\u003e1.4 Discovery~Jane Allen \u003cbr\u003e1.5 Discovery~Discovery \u003cbr\u003e1.6 Seal Man \u003cbr\u003e1.7 Cloths of Heaven \u003cbr\u003e1.8 Cherry-Blossom Wand \u003cbr\u003e1.9 Infant Joy \u003cbr\u003e1.10 Cradle Song \u003cbr\u003e1.11 Tiger, Tiger \u003cbr\u003e1.12 Hymn to God the Father \u003cbr\u003e1.13 Have You Seen but a Bright Lily Grow? \u003cbr\u003e1.14 Meditation for His Mistress \u003cbr\u003e1.15 Till Earth Outwears~Let Me Enjoy the Earth \u003cbr\u003e1.16 Till Earth Outwears~In Years Defaced \u003cbr\u003e1.17 Till Earth Outwears~The Market-Girl \u003cbr\u003e1.18 Till Earth Outwears~I Look Into My Glass \u003cbr\u003e1.19 Till Earth Outwears~It Never Looks Like Summer \u003cbr\u003e1.20 Till Earth Outwears~At a Lunar Eclipse \u003cbr\u003e1.21 Till Earth Outwears~Life Laughs Onward \u003cbr\u003e1.22 Four Shakespeare Songs~Come Away, Death \u003cbr\u003e1.23 Four Shakespeare Songs~The Wind and the Rain \u003cbr\u003e1.24 Four Shakespeare Songs~Take, O Take Those Lips Away \u003cbr\u003e1.25 Four Shakespeare Songs~King Stephen \u003cbr\u003e1.26 Falcon \u003cbr\u003e1.27 Cradle Song \u003cbr\u003e1.28 Epitaph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudio Sample:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n                                           \u003ci\u003eAll soundclips are provided by Tidal and are for illustrative purposes only. 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