Her Song - Orchestral Songs and Arias / Susan Gritton, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Concert Orchestra

• Album Summary
• Notes & Reviews
• Also Purchased
• Works Details

Album Summary

Performers

• Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Cynthia Fleming (Violin)

Conductor

• Brabbins, Martyn

Ensemble

• BBC Concert Orchestra

Composers

• Eric Gritton (1889 - 1981)
• John Ireland (British Composer) (1879 - 1962)
• Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918)
• Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
• John Sanders (1933 - 2003)

Notes & Reviews:

Susan Gritton's solo recital with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins is focused on orchestral songs by Elgar and John Ireland. This enchanting and pioneering survey marks the first time so substantial a survey of Elgar's orchestral songs has been presented in one program. The nine John Ireland songs include the title piece 'Her Song' from 1925, which makes a touching lyrical foil to Elgar's exuberance.

Gramophone Magazine
... performances are all one could hope for. Susan Gritton brings resplendent tone and intelligent observation to the task in hand, and she receives bright-eyed sensitive support from the BBC Concert Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins.

BBC Music Magazine
Throughout Gritton is musically purposeful... while Martyn Brabbins and the BBC players do a fine job.

Reviews

There are currently no reviews, be the first one!

Also Purchased

Works Details

Elgar, Edward : The Torch, Op. 60, no 1 :: 1. The Torch

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1909-1910

Elgar, Edward : The Wind at Dawn

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1888

Elgar, Edward : Pleading, Op. 48

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1908

Elgar, Edward : Like to the Damask Rose

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: circa 1887-1892

Elgar, Edward : The Shepherd's Song, Op. 16, no 1 :: 1. The Shepherd's Song

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1885-1894

Elgar, Edward : Song Cycle, Op. 59

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 7 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1909-1910

Elgar, Edward : Grania and Diarmid, Op. 42 :: There are Seven that Pull the Thread

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 47 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901

Elgar, Edward : The Kingdom, oratorio for soloists, chorus & orchestra, Op. 51 :: The Sun Goeth Down

• Performers: Cynthia Fleming (Violin); Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 8 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1905-1906

Gritton, Eric : O Stay, Madonna, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1910

Parry, Charles Hubert : Guenever, opera :: Act 1. Scene 4. Guenever's Soliloquy

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1884-1886

Sanders, John : Gloucestershire Visions, cantata :: no 4. Evening on Severn

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 5 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1995

Ireland, John : Songs (3), for voice & piano (1926) :: Love and Friendship

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1926

Ireland, John : Songs (2), for voice & piano (1920)

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 5 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1920

Ireland, John : Work(s) :: Adoration

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Ireland, John : I have twelve oxen, for voice & piano

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1918

Ireland, John : The Salley Gardens, for voice & piano (from "Songs Sacred and Profane")

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1929-1931

Ireland, John : The Heart's Desire (The boys are up the woods with day), for voice & piano

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1917

Ireland, John : Work(s) :: Baby

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 1 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Ireland, John : Songs (3) to poems by Thomas Hardy

• Performer: Susan Gritton (Soprano)
• Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
• Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra
• Notes: The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (01/27/2009-01/29/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1925