Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano Vol 1 / Roocroft, Jarnot, Mees

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Album Summary

Performers

• Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Konrad Jarnot (Baritone)

Composer

• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Notes & Reviews:

To mark last year’s 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Channel Classics, in cooperation with the Amsterdam-based Twentieth-Century Song Foundation, has embarked on a project of recording the British composer’s 'Complete Songs' for voice and piano. The eloquent British soprano Amanda Roocroft and English baritone Konrad Jarnot, one of the most promising Lied singers of our time, perform not only such well loved favorites as 'Sea Pictures' (heard here in its first CD recording by a male voice), but also a number of unknown Elgar songs. Partnered by the project’s initiator, the Dutch pianist Reinild Mees, they are among today’s finest champions of this rarely-heard song repertoire.

BBC Music Magazine
Konrad Jarnot is mesmerising in the opening slumber, and with noble tones from pianist Reinid Mills he makes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sabbath Morning at Sea' more persuasive than I've ever heard it.

Gramophone Magazine
Here's another fresh slant on Elgar's masterly Sea Pictures, this time a most persuasive first recording employing a make voice... With this exemplary diction, unflustered poise and focused tone... Konrad Jarnot forges an instinctive alliance with the admirable Reinild Mees, who accompanies with stylish understanding. Amanda Roocroft... contributes very creditably...

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Works Details

Elgar, Edward : The Self-Banished

• Performers: Reinhild Mees (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: circa 1875

Elgar, Edward : Song Cycle, Op. 59 :: no 3. Soft was the Song

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1909-1910

Elgar, Edward : In moonlight

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1904

Elgar, Edward : Pleading, Op. 48

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1908

Elgar, Edward : Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42 :: There Are Seven That Pull the Thread

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901

Elgar, Edward : Song Cycle, Op. 59 :: no 6. Twilight

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1909-1910

Elgar, Edward : Sea Pictures, Op. 37

• Performers: Reinhild Mees (Piano); Konrad Jarnot (Baritone)
• Running Time: 21 min. 40 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1897-1899

Elgar, Edward : The Wind at Dawn

• Performers: Reinhild Mees (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1888

Elgar, Edward : Songs (2) for voice & piano, Op. 41

• Performers: Amanda Roocroft (Soprano); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901

Elgar, Edward : Dry those Fair, those Crystal Eyes, song for voice & piano

• Performers: Reinhild Mees (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 1 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1899

Elgar, Edward : Always and Everywhere, song for voice & piano

• Performers: Reinhild Mees (Piano); Amanda Roocroft (Soprano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901

Elgar, Edward : Like to the Damask Rose

• Performers: Konrad Jarnot (Baritone); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: circa 1887-1892

Elgar, Edward : Queen Mary's Song, for voice & piano

• Performers: Konrad Jarnot (Baritone); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1887-1889

Elgar, Edward : A Song of Autumn, song for voice & piano

• Performers: Konrad Jarnot (Baritone); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: circa 1887-1892

Elgar, Edward : Come, gentle night, song for voice & piano

• Performers: Konrad Jarnot (Baritone); Reinhild Mees (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901