Prelude & Deodato 2
Themes from The Exorcist, The French Connection, The Sting and other great films & Flashpoint
Hiroshima & Odori
Euphrates River
Youth (Clifford Bax) Parting ('' George Russell) The Fairies (William Allingham) Lullaby ('Sheila MacCarthy' i.e. Bax)JR, A Milking Sian (Fiona Macleod)JR Song in the Twilight (Freda Bax) The Enchanted Fiddle ('Anon' i.e. Bax) Far in a Western Brookland (A E Housman) To Eire (James H Cousins) A Celtic Song Cycle (Fiona Macleod)JR: Eilidh my Fawn, Closing Doors, Thy Dark Eyes to Mine, A Celtic Lullaby, At the Last The White Peace (Fiona Macleod) When we are lost ('Dermot O'Brien' ie Bax) When I was one and twenty (A E Housman) Roundel (Chaucer) The Market Girl (Thomas Hardy) Ian Partridge (tenor) JRJean Rigby (mezzo) Michael Dussek (piano) Recorded at St George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol 21-23 July 2003 Jean Rigby works wonders with the youthful Celtic Song Cycle ... and imparts an almost operatic scope to the quietly intense Song in the Twilight'. ... Dussek's accompaniments are a model of scrupulous musicality, while the truthful sound and balance emanate from St George's... this enterprising collection must receive the heartiest of welcomes. Andrew Achenbach, The Gramophone, June 2004
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