Helen Charlston & Toby Carr — Battle Cry: She Speaks

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Helen Charlston is the rising star among young British mezzos, and this fine recording with theorbo player Toby Carr reveals why—in a recital programme designed to exorcise the ghosts of all those dead, dishonoured or abandoned heroines who haunt the vocal repertoire of the Baroque, from Monteverdi’s Ariadne through to Purcell’s Dido. They’re acknowledged not so much with tears as with resolve: hence <i>Battle Cry</i>, which is specifically the title of a new song cycle written as the programme’s centrepiece by Owain Park. Revisiting the “troubled women” theme in music where the soundworlds of the present and the past combine, it plays to both performers’ strengths, and in particular to the arresting presence of a singer who delivers passionate intensity in an unlaboured way. Charlston ends with an account of Purcell’s <i>Evening Hymn</i> that brings her troubled heroines to peace.

Артист

Helen Charlston & Toby Carr

Треки

  1. Bonduca, Z. 574: O lead me to some peaceful gloom 2:58
  2. Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op. 2: XIV. L’Eraclito amoroso 5:55
  3. Prélude 1:25
  4. She Ventures, and He Wins: Restless in thought 4:24
  5. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Thy hand, Belinda 0:50
  6. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) 3:07
  7. Battle Cry: I. Boudicca 3:05
  8. Battle Cry: II. Philomela in the forest 2:18
  9. Battle Cry: III. A singer’s ode to Sappho 2:19
  10. Battle Cry: IV. Marietta 9:07
  11. Libro quarto d'intavolatura di chitarone: Preluido V 1:04
  12. Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op. 2: XI. La travagliata 4:42
  13. L'Arianna, SV 291: Lamento d’Arianna 9:03
  14. Sarabande 2:12
  15. An Evening Hymn, Z. 193 4:42