The Prince Consort "Ned Rorem – On an echoing road" SACD

The Prince Consort "Ned Rorem – On an echoing road" SACD

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Ned Rorem is one of the most widely-recorded living American composers, who Time Magazine called 'the world's best composer of art songs', with over 500 songs to his name.

'Editor's Choice' -  Gramophone

As heard on BBC Radio 3 

'IRR Outstanding' - International Record Review 

'The performances alone and together are in every way ideal. The recording is flawless.' Ned Rorem

The dynamic Prince Consort comprises five singers and a pianist, all of whom are drawing major international attention for their solo endeavours. Brought together by their love of singing this repertoire, Anna Leese, Jennifer Johnston, Andrew Staples, Jacques Imbrailo, Tim Mead and Alisdair Hogarth are a compelling combination. This is their debut album.

Ned Rorem - On an echoing road features songs that are lyrical, beguiling and unaffectedly simple, intriguing, melodic and intimate. They have echoes of French, English and American song repertoires whilst being distinctively Ned Rorem. New York magazine called Evidence of Things Not Seen 'one of the musically richest, most exquisitely fashioned, most voice-friendly collections of songs I have ever heard by any American composer'.

Tracklisting

  1. Early in the Morning
  2. Are You the New Person?
  3. Rain in Spring
  4. 3 Poems of Paul Goodman: No. 1. For Susan
  5. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
  6. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. N. Rorem)
  7. To a Young Girl
  8. Catullus: on the Burial of his Brother
  9. Evidence of Things Not Seen: No. 22. Requiescat
  10. I Will Always Love You
  11. A Whitman Cantata: A Whitman Cantata: That shadow, my likeness
  12. Evidence of Things Not Seen: No. 29. On an Echoing Road
  13. 2 Poems of Theodore Roethke: No. 2. I Strolled Across an Open Field
  14. Alleluia
  15. Little Elegy
  16. 5 Poems of Walt Whitman: No. 2. Sometimes with One I Love
  17. Evidence of Things Not Seen: No. 14. Hymn for Morning
  18. 2 Poems of Theodore Roethke: No. 1. Orchids
  19. On a Singing Girl
  20. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
  21. What if some little pain
  22. 5 Songs to Poems: 5 Songs to Poems: No. 4. Look Down, Fair Moon
  23. Evidence of Things Not Seen: No. 4. The Rainbow
  24. Poems of Love and the Rain: No. 6. Do I Love You More than a Day?
  25. Evidence of Things Not Seen: No. 7. Their Lonely Betters
  26. O Do Not Love Too Long
  27. Evidence of Things Not Seen: No. 19. Comment on War
  28. The Serpent
  29. Full of Life Now