Barber - String Quartet, Serenade, Dover Beach & Songs
Thomas Allen & Roger Vignoles, with Eric Cutler, Bradley Moore
Endellion String Quartet
Mostly a wide-ranging choice of Barber's songs, intense and rather Brittenish in idiom, but polished and often warm-hearted, plus his String Quartet, source of the famous Adagio. —
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Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
- Endellion String Quartet (string quartet), Thomas Allen (baritone)
- Recorded: 1990-07-03
- Recording Venue: 1-3 July 1990 / Blackheath Concert Halls, London
Barber: Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 1
- Endellion String Quartet (string quartet)
- Recorded: 1990-07-03
- Recording Venue: 1-3 July 1990 / Blackheath Concert Halls, London
I. Un poco adagio - Allegro con spirito
II. Andante con moto
III. Dance (Allegro giocoso)
Barber: Three Songs, Op. 2
- Roger Vignoles (piano), Thomas Allen (bass-baritone)
- Recorded: 1993-04-09
- Recording Venue: 8-9 April 1993 / St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol
The daisies (James Stephens)
With rue my heart is laden (A. E. Housman)
Bessie Bobtail (James Stephens)
Barber: Three Songs, Op. 10
- Roger Vignoles (piano), Thomas Allen (bass-baritone)
- Recorded: 1993-04-09
- Recording Venue: 8-9 April 1993 / St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army
Excerpt,
- Roger Vignoles (piano), Thomas Allen (bass-baritone)
- Recorded: 1993-04-09
- Recording Venue: 8-9 April 1993 / St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol
III. Sure on this shining night (James Agee)
IV. Nocturne (Frederic Prokosch)
Barber: Three Songs, Op. 45
- Thomas Allen (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
- Recorded: 1993-04-09
- Recording Venue: 8-9 April 1993 / St George's Church, Brandon Hill, Bristol
Now have I Fed and Eaten up the Rose (James Joyce / Gottfried Keller)
A Green Lowland of Pianos (Czeslaw Milosz / Jerzy Harasymowicz)
O Boundless, Boundless Evening (Christopher Middleton / Georg Heym)
Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11
- Endellion String Quartet (string quartet)
- Recorded: 1990-07-03
- Recording Venue: 1-3 July 1990 / Blackheath Concert Halls, London
I. Molto allegro e appassionato
II. Adagio
III. Molto adagio - Presto
Barber: Despite and Still, Op. 41
- Bradley Moore (piano), Eric Cutler (vocals)
- Recorded: 2003-05-21
- Recording Venue: 20-21 May 2003, Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London
A Last Song
My Lizard (Wish for a Young Love)
In the Wilderness
Solitary Hotel
Despite and Still