Jonathan Lemalu: Love Blows as the Wind Blows
CML call number: CD/CLASSICAL/Lemalu
Performers: Jonathan Lemalu; Malcolm Martineau, piano; Belcea Quartet.
Contents: Songs by English and American composers: Roger Quilter, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Richard Rodney Bennett, John Ireland, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, William Bolcom.
Russell Platt wrote in the New Yorker: "Much of the music featured in 'Love Blows as the Wind Blows,' a new album from the young New Zealand bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu (on EMI), shows that a certain Handelian decorum still held sway over British vocal music in the early twentieth century. Songs by Quilter and Finzi have an undeniable charm, but the most vibrant pieces are by composers in the American orbit -- such as Barber's 'Dover Beach,' which Lemalu (accompanied by the Belcea Quartet) performs with an impressively robust lyricism" ("Classical Notes: The King's English," 3/20/06, p. 42).
In Dover Beach, Samuel Barber set the famous poem by Matthew Arnold, which concludes: "Ah, love, let us be true / to one another! for the world … hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light. … "
Performers: Jonathan Lemalu; Malcolm Martineau, piano; Belcea Quartet.
Contents: Songs by English and American composers: Roger Quilter, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Richard Rodney Bennett, John Ireland, George Butterworth, Gerald Finzi, William Bolcom.
Russell Platt wrote in the New Yorker: "Much of the music featured in 'Love Blows as the Wind Blows,' a new album from the young New Zealand bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu (on EMI), shows that a certain Handelian decorum still held sway over British vocal music in the early twentieth century. Songs by Quilter and Finzi have an undeniable charm, but the most vibrant pieces are by composers in the American orbit -- such as Barber's 'Dover Beach,' which Lemalu (accompanied by the Belcea Quartet) performs with an impressively robust lyricism" ("Classical Notes: The King's English," 3/20/06, p. 42).
In Dover Beach, Samuel Barber set the famous poem by Matthew Arnold, which concludes: "Ah, love, let us be true / to one another! for the world … hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light. … "
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