Ian Venables - Andrew Kennedy, Iain Burnside, Richard Hosford - On The Wings Of Love - Venetian Songs ‎(CD, Album).

CD 1. Ian Venables Composer. On the Wings of Love, for tenor, clarinet and piano, O. 8 Work. Richard Hosford Clarinet, Ian Burnside Piano, Andrew Kennedy Tenor.

On The Wings Of Love, Op. 38 1 I. Ionian Song 2 II. The Moon Sails Out 3 III. Sonnet XI 4 IV. Epitaph 5 V. When You Are Old Love's Voice, Op. 22 6 I. Fortunate Isles 7 II. The Passing Stranger 8 Ill. The Invitation To The Gondola 9 IV. Love's Voice 10 Midnight Lamentation, Op. 6 11 6 Songs, Op. 33: No. 5. Break,.

Born in 1953, Ian Venables is the first living composer to be represented in Naxos's English Song series. There's a logic to that as, stylistically, Venables's music is conservative, with affinities to a much earlier generation of English composers. The more substantial of the two cycles here is On the Wings of Love, five settings of poems by non-English writers including Lorca, Cavafy and Yeats, all sung in English, and in which the tenor is joined by a clarinet, while the four Venetian Songs set texts by John Addington Symonds. Andrew Kennedy sings both cycles with great attention to their musical and verbal detail, but even he can't disguise the narrowness of their expressive scope.

Andrew Kennedy is an ideal interpreter of Ian Venables’ music, which he sings as if to the manner born. He has already recorded some of the songs, including The Hippo and At Midnight, on the Signum label (SIGCD204), so there is a small degree of overlap. The dedication of Love’s Voice to the pianist Ian Partridge reminds us that Venables is not only most adept at writing for the voice, but that the accompaniments to the songs also contain piano writing as carefully thought out as that of almost any composer that comes to mind since Schubert. Tennyson’s Break, break, break (track 12) receives a dramatic setting that makes me hope that Venables will turn again to other parts of In Memoriam for future inspiration.

Venables: On the Wings of Love - Venetian Songs. 6 Songs, Op. 3. Vitae Summa Brevis. Venables: On the Wings of Love - Venetian Songs.

Ian Venables: On the Wings of Love; Venetian Songs. Iain Burnside, Andrew Kennedy. Primary Artist, Tenor (Vocal). Stainer: The Crucifixion. Joseph Cullen, Neal Davies, Huddersfield Choral Society, Andrew Kennedy. Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs, Vol. Andrew Kennedy. The Dark Pastoral: Songs and Poetry from World War I.

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Ian Venables' WW1 song cycle, 'Through These Pale Cold Days' is to receive its US premiere in a programme of music to commemorate the US enttrance into the Great War. This innovative programme devised by Brian Thorsett (tenor), will feature songs from around the time of the war as well as music related to the theme of war. Brian Thorsett will be joined by Richard Masters (piano) and Kimberly Fredenburgh (viola). The concert is to be streamed live.