Ivonne Fuchs & Georg Gulyas - Britten: Works for Voice & Guitar (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: No. 1, The Big Chariot
02. Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: No. 2, The Old Lute
03. Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: No. 3, The Autumn Wind
04. Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: No. 4, The Herd-boy
05. Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: No. 5, Depression
06. Songs from the Chinese, Op. 58: No. 6, Dance Song
07. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6 "England": No. 1, I Will Give My Love an Apple
08. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6 "England": No. 2, Sailor-Boy
09. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6 "England": No. 3, Master Kilby
10. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6 "England": No. 4, The Soldier and the Sailor
11. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6 "England": No. 5, Bonny at Morn
12. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 6 "England": No. 6, The Shooting of His Dear
13. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 5, The Foggy, Foggy Dew
14. Book of Songs, Book 1: Come, Heavy Sleep
15. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: I. Musingly
16. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: II. Very Agitated
17. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: III. Restless
18. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: IV. Uneasy
19. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: V. March-like
20. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: VI. Dreaming
21. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: VII. Gently Rocking
22. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: VIII. Passacaglia
23. Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70: IX. Slow and Quiet


After George Gulyás's recent records, including the critically acclaimed 'Complete Lute Works for guitar' on Proprius / Naxos, here is a new CD entirely dedicated to music by Benjamin Britten. It contains all the works in which the guitar is included, and performed together with the mezzo-soprano Ivonne Fuchs.

The album also presents a solo piece, the Nocturnal op.70, one of the guitar literature's most important works. The piece reflects the various stages of insomnia, where the ambiguous theme of John Dowland, Come heavy sleep, hints at how sleep, or death, finally enters as a liberator.

In Songs from the Chinese op.58, we meet a British brooding over the aging process and where we are thrown from melancholy to the restlessness that turns up in Dance song, a wild dance where the unicorn symbolizes lost innocence, one of Britten's favorite themes.

Folksong Arrangements treats traditional themes such as the sailor, love, and moral themes, as in The Shooting of his Dear, where a young man shoots his sweetheart by accident during the hunt after mistaking her for a swan.

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