The English Song Series Volume 21 - Ian Venables
Ian Venables is one of Britain’s foremost composers of art-song, and has a significant catalogue of vocal and chamber music to his credit. Writing tonal music in a warm lyric vein, he has a rare gift of being able to ‘locate’ himself, believably, in a different period and absorb from it, both musically and poetically, all its fundamental beauty, while also producing works of astonishing freshness, naturalness and originality. On the Wings of Love are settings by non-English poets, while Love’s Voice sets Venetian poetry by J. A. Symonds. All his songs are sincere expressions of a love of poetry, combined with a profound understanding of musical and poetic tradition. “A singer of wide, lustrous tone and striking dramatic prowess” The Times on Andrew Kennedy Track Listing: Disc 1: I. Ionian Song 00:04:45 II. The Moon Sails Out 00:02:34 III. Sonnet XI 00:06:13 IV. Epitaph 00:02:50 V. When you are Old 00:06:53 I. Fortunate Isles 00:03:22 II. The Passing Stranger 00:03:26 III. The Invitation to the Gondola 00:04:08 IV. Love's Voice 00:04:41 Midnight Lamentation, Op. 6 00:03:42 6 Songs, Op. 33: No. 5. Break, break, break 00:02:24 6 Songs, Op. 33: No. 4. The November Piano 00:02:56 6 Songs, Op. 33: No. 3. Vitae Summa Brevis 00:03:24 2 Songs, Op. 28: No. 1. Flying Crooked 00:01:03 2 Songs, Op. 28: No. 2. At Midnight 00:03:51 6 Songs, Op. 33: No. 6. The Hippo 00:01:28 At Malvern, Op. 24 00:04:22 A Kiss, Op. 15 00:04:01