Four Romantic Madrigals is a new edition of selected madrigals composed by John Stainer (1840–1901). Jeremy Dibble of Durham University brings Stainer’s expressive and enticing part-songs to a wider audience by presenting them in modern notation. This collection contains: 1. ‘Disappointment’ – a six-part madrigal which sets the popular ‘Pastoral Ballad IV’ of the eighteenth-century poet William Shenstone 2. ‘Dry your sweet cheek’ – an emotionally turbulent setting of Herrick’s ‘Comfort to a lady upon the death of herhusband’ from Hesperides (1648) 3. ‘The Castle by the Sea’ – a rich and complex setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s prose romance, Hyperion, for two five-part choirs(SSATB, SSATB) 4. ‘Like as a ship’ – an ambitious and harmonically colourful setting of sonnet XXXIV from Edmund Spenser’s sonnet cycle Amoretti (1595) This edition coincides with the release of the CD, English Romantic Madrigals (Hyperion, CDA68140), an exciting new recording of works by Stainer, Sir Hubert Parry, Elgar and other composers of nineteenth-century English part-songs performed by Rupert Gough and the Royal Holloway Choir.
- ISMN: 9790577012032 (M577012032)
