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My new album The Seasons (1914-18) is out on 6 November. Here’s a clip from ‘Lights Out’, performed by the amazing @thegesualdosix - It’s the last movement of Winter in Arras, 1917, and a setting of Edward Thomas’s poem of the same name.
My new album The Seasons (1914-18) is out on 6 November. Here’s the gorgeous CD design by Oli Bentley at @splituk - what a beautiful thing.
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My new album The Seasons (1914-18) is out on 6 Nov. Here’s part of ‘Snow’, performed by @thegesualdosix - recorded in a freezing St Michael’s Highgate, the highest church in London - you’re all but level with the cross on the top of St Paul’s when you walk in the front door.
My new album The Seasons (1914-18) is out on 6 November. Here’s ‘Snow’, performed by the amazing @TheGesualdoSix It's the first movement of Winter in Arras, 1917, a setting of Edward Thomas's poem “Snow”.
The third single from The Seasons is out on 16 October — A Clearer Light, performed by the glorious @connaughtbrass. It’s the first movement of Summer in London, 1914, and was recorded in the beautiful St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood.
The stunning red-brick Gothic Revival church was built in the 1880s by J. L. Pearson, and had major structural restoration after being hit by several WWII doodlebug bombs.
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The third single from The Seasons is out on 16 October — A Clearer Light, performed by the glorious @connaughtbrass It's the first movement of Summer in London, 1914, and the first music you hear on the album, written after Alice Meynell’s poem “Summer in England, 1914”. 💙🎹
And in the Quiet we Rose, the second single from The Seasons (1914–18), is out on 25 September, performed by the wonderful @solemquartet. This solemn, hopeful work is the last music you hear on the album.
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Like the other Seasons, Autumn in Paris, 1918 has a text behind it — May Wedderburn Cannan's poem “Paris, November 11, 1918”.
Down on the boulevards the crowds went by,
The shouting and the singing died away,
And in the quiet we rose to drink the toasts,
Our hearts uplifted …
The second single from The Seasons is out on 25 September — And in the Quiet we Rose, performed by the wonderful @solemquartet. It's the last movement of Autumn in Paris, 1918, written after May Wedderburn Cannan’s poem "Paris, November 11, 1918”.
Down on the boulevards the crowds went by,
The shouting and the singing died away,
And in the quiet we rose to drink the toasts,
Our hearts uplifted to the hour, the Day …
(with permission from The Tears of War ed. Charlotte Fyfe
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New single from the Galliard Ensemble out now | #News
The @galliardens's recording of a new work by @michael__price has been released and is now available to stream ahead of the album's release later this year.
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The Flowers Left Thick is out now, performed by the wonderful @galliardens and recorded in Orford Church where Britten performed his later works.
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It’s the first single from my new album The Seasons (1914-18), out Nov 6.
Let me know if you listen. 💙🎹
The Flowers Left Thick, the first single from The Seasons (1914–18), is out on 4 September. Each of the Seasons was recorded in a different church, chosen for its history and acoustics.
For Spring in Steep, 1915, with the Galliard Ensemble, we went to St Bartholomew’s Church, in Orford, Suffolk, where Benjamin Britten recorded and premiered many of his later works. The church still has a green slate memorial set in the floor of the nave in memory of him.
The first single from The Seasons is out on 4 September — The Flowers Left Thick, performed by the wonderful Galliard Ensemble. It's the first movement of Spring in Steep, 1915, written after Edward Thomas's poem "In Memoriam (Easter 1915)".
All the artwork for The Seasons is by Oli Bentley of @splituk , based at Salts Works, Shipley.
Oli is a letterpress and traditional print master. These designs began digitally, were made into a ‘forme’ and hand-printed, then scanned to become what you see here.
If you really zoom in, you’ll see the texture from the printing and the beautiful imperfections it brings.
One moving detail of many - the white ‘leaves’, which could also be snowflakes, are shaped like soldiers’ helmets.
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