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: :Benjamin Britten wrote songs throughout his life, starting at age 14 (Quatre chansons françaises) and ranging from his settings of English and French folk songs (represented here by two in each language) to longer and more complex works. The centerpiece of the disc (apart from the early and very Schoenbergian Sinfonietta op. 1) is the five-part song cycle Our Hunting Fathers. The cycle, written in 1936, was devised by W.H. Auden and reflects in obscure and disjointed fashion the polemical pacifism of the time. The episodes alternate between drama and lyricism and are generally more declamatory than melodic, using the kind of heightened ...
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(more) »rank: 266563from: Hyperion UK
: :Benjamin Britten wrote songs throughout his life, starting at age 14 (Quatre chansons françaises) and ranging from his settings of English and French folk songs (represented here by two in each language) to longer and more complex works. The centerpiece of the disc (apart from the early and very Schoenbergian Sinfonietta op. 1) is the five-part song cycle Our Hunting Fathers. The cycle, written in 1936, was devised by W.H. Auden and reflects in obscure and disjointed fashion the polemical pacifism of the time. The episodes alternate between drama and lyricism and are generally more declamatory than melodic, using the kind of heightened ...
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: :These chamber works center around the horn as a chamber instrument. The horn contributes an interesting character to the music, especially when there is a piano employed. The String Trio of 1984 is here scored for horn, violin, and piano. The Horn Quartet of 1975 is scored for horn, violin, cello, and piano. The Trio is more representative of Simpson's mature style; it tends more toward a melodic polytonality. His Horn Quartet is more rugged, and the scales are tipped toward atonality. Extremely interesting postmodern works. --Paul Cook
