My True Love Hath My Heart - English Songs, Howells, Britten Ireland, et al. / Sarah Connolly, ms

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	Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles" - Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 6. O Waly, Waly
	Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, "Moore's Irish Melodies" - Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, "Moore's Irish Melodies": No. 3. How sweet the answer
	Corpus Christi Carol (after A Boy was Born, Op. 3: Variation 5) - Corpus Christi Carol (after A Boy was Born, Op. 3: Variation 5)
	Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, "British Isles" - Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 5, "British Isles": No. 4. Early one morning
	King David - King David
	Come sing and dance - Come sing and dance
	3 Songs - 3 Songs: No. 2. Her Song
	2 Songs (text by P. Sidney) - 2 Songs: No. 2. My true love hath my heart
	2 Songs (text by A. Symons) - 2 Songs: No. 1. Tryst (In Fountain Court)
	5 Elizabethan Songs (text by J. Fletcher) - 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4. Sleep
	By a Bierside - By a Bierside
	Gavotte - Gavotte
	Lost Love Song - Lost Love Song
	More Songs of the Countryside - More Songs of the Countryside: No. 1. Foxgloves
	The First Mercy - The First Mercy
	3 Cotswold Songs - 3 Cotswold Songs: No. 1. Cotsworld Love
	A History of the The Dansant - No. 1. Foxtrot
	A History of the The Dansant - No. 2. Slow Foxtrot
	A History of the The Dansant - No. 3. Tango

Album Summary

Performers

• Sarah Connolly
• Malcolm Martineau (Piano)

Composers

• John Ireland (British Composer) (1879 - 1962)
• Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Ivor Gurney (1890 - 1937)
• Richard Rodney Bennett (Composer) (1936 - 2012)
• Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
• Michael Head (2 (Classical Composer)) (1900 - 1976)

Notes & Reviews:

Connolly received excellent reviews for her recital performance of 'English Songs' on April 11, 2011 at Alice Tully Hall, NYC. The NY Times wrote: 'Ms Connolly's voice was strong & steady through its range, velvety, but with a soft, subtle graininess that gave weight and presence to even her most ethereal floated notes'. Accompanied by Martineau on piano, highlights on this album include By a Bierside, Gurney's stark reflection on death, written in World War I trenches, Howells's King David which has long been considered a masterpiece, & A History of the Thé Dansant by Bennett, published in 1995.

"Her singing is consistently beautiful in this programme of English songs." -The Sunday Times

"A lovely big mezzo reading of modern settings by Britten, Howells, Gurney and more, with unassertive accompaniment by Malcolm Martineau. A sarcastic Richard Rodney Bennett set rounds off the show." -La Scena Musicale

"Ms Connolly’s voice was strong and steady through its range, velvety, but with a soft, subtle graininess that gave weight and presence to even her most ethereal floated notes." -The New York Times

Financial Times
It is good to find an English singer in her prime championing the lesser-known art songs of her native tradition, and making them sound not so much twee as magical: listen to Connolly's artless handling of Britten's "Corpus Christi Carol", the quiet rapture she finds in Howells's "Kind David", the fun she has with the Foxtrot from Richard Rodney Bennett's "History of ThT Dansant".

BBC Music Magazine
They create a sense of isolation within the sadness of King David; they capture Ireland's responses to the poetry of Hardy, Sidney and Symons with total commitment; and they respond with sentience to Gurney's uniquely eloquent feeling for the inflections of the English language in two of his classic songs

The Telegraph
One of today's most intelligent musical mezzo-sopranos, Sarah Connolly is in gloriously fluent and expressive voice for an imaginatively programmed selection of mid 20th-century English song... Malcolm Martineau's accompaniment is exemplary in its sensitivity.

Classic FM Magazine
Her sense of drama is never overstated. She excels, therefore, in capturing the masculine melancholy of Britten's lullabies and Bennett's brittle, unpredictable scenes from a long marriage. Martineau responds throughout with characteristically flawless, subtle and intuitive accompaniment.

Gramophone Magazine
Connolly sings immaculately, with impeccably sensitive accompaniment from Malcolm Martineau, in sound both clear and perfectly balanced.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011).

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Works Details

Britten, Benjamin : Folksongs (7), Volume 3

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Britten, Benjamin : How sweet the answer, folksong for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 4)

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1960

Britten, Benjamin : Corpus Christi Carol, for voice or unison chorus & organ

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1961

Britten, Benjamin : Early one morning, for voice & piano (Folk Songs, Vol. 5)

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: circa 1961

Howells, Herbert : King David for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 5 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Howells, Herbert : Come Sing and Dance for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1928

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

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1925

Ireland, John : Songs (2) for voice & piano (1920) :: My true love hath my heart

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 1 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1920

Ireland, John : Tryst, for voice & piano (from Two Songs, 1928)

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1928

Gurney, Ivor : Sleep, for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Gurney, Ivor : By a Bierside

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 4 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1916

Howells, Herbert : Gavotte for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 3 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Howells, Herbert : Lost Love Song, for voice & piano

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 4 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Head, Michael : Foxgloves, for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1932

Warlock, Peter : The First Mercy, for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 2 min. 51 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1927

Head, Michael : Cotswold Love, for voice & piano

• Performers: Malcolm Martineau (Piano); Sarah Connolly
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1938

Bennett, Richard R. : A History of the Thé Dansant, for voice & piano

• Performers: Sarah Connolly; Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
• Notes: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/01/2011-02/02/2011)
• Running Time: 10 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Modern