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Download Booklet 557204 bk AudenUS 24/06/2003 11:12 Page 8 LENNOX BERKELEY (1903-1989) DDD Five Poems, Op. 53 † 9:49 1 ILauds (Among the leaves the small birds sing) 2:04 8.557204 2 II O lurcher-loving collier 2:04 3 III What’s in your mind, my dove, my coney? 1:47 4 IV Eyes look into the well 2:24 5 V Carry her over the water 1:27 BRITTEN 6 Night covers up the rigid land, Op. 14 No. 2 † 2:35 7 Lay your sleeping head, my love, Op. 14 No. 2b † 5:30 BERKELEY BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976) On This Island, Op. 11 † 13:20 8 Let the florid music praise! 3:32 Auden Songs 9 Now the leaves are falling fast 1:56 0 Seascape 2:08 ! Nocturne 4:10 On This Island @ As it is, plenty 1:32 # Fish in the unruffled lakes † 2:17 Cabaret Songs $ Night covers up the rigid land † 2:03 % To lie flat on the back † 2:23 Five Poems ^ The sun shines down † 2:03 & What’s on your mind? † 1:50 Fish in the Unruffled * Underneath the abject willow † 1:46 Cabaret Songs * 14:44 Lakes ( Tell me the truth about love 5:35 ) Funeral blues 2:32 ¡ Johnny 4:32 ™ Calypso 2:03 Della Jones, Mezzo-Soprano £ When you’re feeling like expressing your affection * 0:43 ¢ Underneath the abject willow * † 1:54 Philip Langridge, Tenor Della Jones, Mezzo-Soprano * • Philip Langridge, Tenor † • Steuart Bedford, Piano Steuart Bedford, Piano 8.557204 8 557204 bk AudenUS 24/06/2003 11:12 Page 2 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) • Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) den bis dahin unveröffentlichten Vertonungen von 1937 zusammen in Brittens Haus in Snape in der Grafschaft Settings of Poems by W.H. Auden schließlich 1997 unter dem Titel Fish in the Unruffled Suffolk wohnten. 1937 arbeiteten sie an der Lakes: Six Settings of W.H. Auden im Verlag Boosey & Orchestersuite über katalonische Volksmelodien, Mont Benjamin Britten’s post-war pre-eminence as an opera October of the following year, he completed eight Hawkes. Underneath the abject willow ist von Juic, zusammen, und 1938 widmete Britten Berkeley composer has tended to overshadow the considerable further settings, five of which were selected for the besonderem Interesse, da der Text Britten gewidmet ist sein gerade vollendetes Klavierkonzert. Vermutlich achievements of his earlier years. Between his official cycle On This Island, Op.11, for solo voice and piano, – eine unzweideutige sexuelle Einladung Audens an lernte Berkeley durch Britten Audens Gedichte kennen, Opus 1, the Sinfonietta of 1932, written when he was first performed in November 1937 at a BBC den jungen Komponisten. Gleichwohl bleibt Brittens denn seine ersten Auden-Vertonungen, Night covers up nineteen, and the completion of Peter Grimes in 1945, contemporary music concert by the soprano Sophie Vertonung bemerkenswert unpersönlich und wirkt eher the rigid land und Lay your sleeping head, my love he was fluently and prolifically writing works in every Wyss and the composer. The score was published by wie ein kalkuliertes Missverständnis. Die beiden (beide hier eingespielt), datieren aus dieser Zeit. Bei genre, many of which remain far too little known even Boosey & Hawkes in October 1938 and originally Fassungen, die Britten von diesem Lied erstellte, letzterem handelt es sich um ein weiteres Britten today. Among these are five major works involving designated ‘Vol.1’: it seems likely that Britten intended unterscheiden sich vor allem in der Begleitstimme, gewidmetes Gedicht, das dieser jedoch nie vertonte. texts written or devised by the poet W.H.Auden: the to use the three remaining settings in a second volume wobei die spätere Version für Solostimme einfacher (Berkeley folgte Audens Beispiel und dedizierte seine song cycles Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and On This which never materialised. und in ihrer Wirkung direkter ist, obwohl man sich in Vertonung ‚B.B.’) Berkeleys Fassung von Night covers Island (1937), the choral and orchestral Ballad of On This Island was Britten’s first published group beiden Fassungen eines merkwürdig unbeteiligten up the rigid land ist nachdenklicher und statischer als Heroes (1939), the operetta Paul Bunyan (completed in of songs with piano. The set is conceived more as a Ausdrucks nicht erwehren kann. Brittens; sie greift die Stimmung des Gedichts auf und 1941), and the choral Hymn to St Cecilia (1942). In sequence of self-contained vignettes, perhaps reflecting Die Four Cabaret Songs, komponiert zwischen hält sie fest anstatt sie – wie sein jüngerer Kollege es tat addition, Britten set a number of other poems by Auden the recent experience of writing the Variations on a 1937 und 1939, aber erst 1980 veröffentlicht, enthüllen – zu entwickeln. during this period which remained unpublished during theme of Frank Bridge, rather than attempting the quasi- eine andere, unbeschwertere Seite der künstlerischen In seinen 1958 entstandenen Five Poems op. 53 his lifetime and which are included on this disc. symphonic unity of Our Hunting Fathers. They are also Partnerschaft von Britten und Auden. Diese Lieder griff Berkeley noch einmal auf Texte von W.H. Auden Britten and Auden first met in July 1935 when they notably simpler in their relatively orthodox approach to entstanden für Hedli Anderson, bekannt geworden zurück. Interessanterweise waren alle mit Ausnahme were both working for the GPO Film Unit, an word-setting and use of more traditional harmony. durch eine Partie in The Ascent of F6 in dem des ersten Lieds, Lauds, das Auden 1952 geschrieben organization dedicated to the making of educational Perhaps the most striking song is the fourth, Nocturne, Bühnenstück von Auden und Isherwood, für das Britten hatte, bereits zuvor von Britten vertont worden: Carry documentary films. Auden became one of the major which with its daring reliance on the most economical 1937 die Musik geschrieben hatte. The Funeral Blues her over the water ist Teil des zweiten Akts von Paul influences on the young composer and while Britten of musical means sounds perhaps the most personal entstand ursprünglich für diese Produktion (gesungen Bunyan, wo es als Hochzeitslied für Slim und Tiny confessed to being somewhat intimidated by Auden’s note in the work and anticipates the inspired simplicities vom Chor und begleitet von zwei Klavieren und gesungen wird. Obwohl es unwahrscheinlich ist, dass brilliant intellect, it was undoubtedly a partnership of found in such later cycles as Les Illuminations and the Schlagzeug), wurde aber später für Solostimme und Berkeley Brittens Fassung kannte (Paul Bunyan mutual admiration and respect. Their first collaboration Michelangelo Sonnets. Klavier bearbeitet. Tell me the truth about love und verschwand nach der ersten Aufführungsserie in New was for the film Coal Face in 1935, soon followed by In January 1938, Britten completed another setting Johnny sind eindeutig von damals modischen Schlagern York von der Bühne und wurde erst 1974 wieder Night Mail in the following year. It was the success of of a poem from Look, Stranger!, Fish in the unruffled à la Cole Porter beeinflusst, wohingegen die aufgeführt), sind die Ähnlichkeiten zwischen den the latter in particular that encouraged the two men to lakes, which was subsequently published in 1947. Two lautmalerischen Eisenbahngeräusche von Calypso beiden Vertonungen, z.B. der zusammengesetzte embark on projects of a more substantial nature and in further settings, What’s in your mind and a new solo- bereits auf Midnight on the Great Western aus Brittens Rhythmus und die dreifache Wiederholung des Wortes 1936 Auden devised the text for one of Britten’s most voice version of Underneath the abject willow were Thomas-Hardy-Zyklus Winter Words von 1953 ‚agreeably’, frappant. In diesen herrlichen Liedern zeigt important early works, described by the composer as his written during the early 1940s, but remained in hinweisen. Von ähnlich heiterem Charakter ist das sich Berkeley in der gefühlvollen Textbehandlung und real Op.1, the orchestral song-cycle Our Hunting manuscript. These songs, along with the unused settings kurze When you’re feeling like expressing your der Fähigkeit, Worte und Musik zu einer festgefügten Fathers. It was soon after the première of that work at from 1937, were finally published by Boosey & affection, das vermutlich 1935 für einen Werbefilm für Einheit zu verschmelzen, Benjamin Britten ebenbürtig. the 1936 Norfolk and Norwich Festival that Britten Hawkes under the title Fish in the Unruffled Lakes: Six Telefonzellen entstand. acquired a copy of a newly published volume of settings of W.H.Auden in 1997. Underneath the abject Brittens Bekanntschaft mit Lennox Berkeley datiert Lloyd Moore Auden’s poetry entitled Look, Stranger!, two poems willow is particularly noteworthy as the text is dedicated aus der Mitte der 1930er Jahre, als beide eng from which, Underneath the abject willow and Night to Britten and is clearly Auden’s invitation for his miteinander befreundet waren und eine Zeitlang Deutsche Fassung: Bernd Delfs covers up the rigid land, were dedicated to him. He set younger friend to break his natural reticence and the first of these in November 1936 as the second of his abandon himself to the pleasures of the flesh. Yet Two Ballads for two voices and piano. During May and Britten’s jaunty setting of this text is remarkably 8.557204 2 7 8.557204 557204 bk AudenUS 24/06/2003 11:12 Page 6 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) • Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) impersonal, as if the message is being deliberately 1938, Britten dedicated his recently composed Piano Liedvertonungen nach W.H. Auden misunderstood. The two versions Britten made differ Concerto to Berkeley. It is probable that Berkeley came primarily in their accompaniments, the later solo-voice into contact with Auden’s poetry through Britten as his Durch Benjamin Brittens großartige Nachkriegskarriere Exemplar eines neuerschienenen Gedichtbandes von version being simpler and more direct in effect, but the first Auden settings, Night covers up the rigid land and als Opernkomponist wurden die beachtlichen W.H.
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