Felicity Lott / Graham Johnson
My Own Country
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212590251
- Catalog number CHRCD 024
- Release date 01 September 2011
About the album
"Englishness is difficult to define in musical terms. Word-setting is certainly one way in which a composer may publish his birth certificate: his response to a specific turn of speech, to the rhythm of his own language, may result in an idiosyncratic musical equivalent that could not have derived from another tongue."
So wrote the critic Donald Mitchell, and the collection of songs on this disc supports his assertion: any "Englishness" exhibited by these songs does not derive so much from a musical style unique to this country, as from each composer's response to the text.
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11O Mistress Mine
01:19 -
12The Trellis
02:46 -
13My Heart Is Like a Singing Bird
02:03 -
14Speak, Music (Op. 41, No. 2)
03:02 -
15In Moonlight
02:05 -
16Music, When Soft Voices Die
01:30 -
17Music and Moonlight
02:09 -
18Pleading (Op. 48, No. 1)
02:58 -
19Twilight (Op.59, No.6)
03:04 -
110Under the Greenwood Tree
01:32 -
111Strew No More Red Roses
02:40 -
112Love's Philosophy
01:21 -
113Ha'Nacker Mill
02:50 -
114My Own Country
02:37 -
115I Have Twelve Oxen
01:51 -
116Go, Loveley Rose
02:42 -
117Go Not, Happy Day
01:20 -
118Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
02:02 -
119Sleep
02:25 -
120The Night
02:14 -
121The White Peace
02:30 -
122Ushas (Dawn)
03:07 -
123The Blue-Eyes Fairy, Op. 78
02:37 -
124Missing
01:37 -
125Politeness
00:43 -
126Halfway Down
01:53 -
127Lines Written By a Bear of Very Little Brain
01:05 -
128Henry King
02:42 -
129Matilda
02:58 -
130When I am Dead, My Dearest
01:52 -
131Good-Night
02:07