Linn and The Prince Consort would like to offer you the chance to download two tracks in celebration of the launch of their brand new album absolutely free!
This special offer is available for one week from the date their new album ‘Other Love Songs’ is released: until the 19th June 2011.
Brahms’ two sets of Liebeslieder waltzes are the perfect repertoire for an ensemble like The Prince Consort. The combination of part-songs and solo lieder suits this group down to the ground: a flexible band of top-class soloists who share an understanding of the joys and demands of consort singing. What’s more, they are young, bringing a freshness to the Liebeslieder Walzer Opus 52. The featured sampler track, ‘Ein kleiner, hubscher Vogel nahm den Flug’ provides a taste of Brahms’ classic Liebeslieder . Music OMH describes their performance as « close to an ideal performance of the two Brahms sets as I can imagine. »
‘When I Have Passed’ by Stephen Hough is a double setting for tenor and baritone – two poems by Claude McKay (1889-1948), the gay, black poet who was part of the literary group in 1920s New York known as the Harlem Renaissance. The poet-as-baritone muses whether, after he’s dead and forgotten, a ‘pensive youth’ might come across one of his verses and softly hum its tune, wondering who its author might be. The song opens with a short introduction in which the poet-as-tenor hums a tune based on the last of the first set of Brahms’ Liebeslieder. This material forms the accompaniment in the piano; it reoccurs as an accompaniment by the tenor, and finally joins the words of another of McKay’s poems about his sorrowing love for his deceased mother.
You can enjoy these tracks in glorious Studio Master quality.
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