Tenebrae - Hubert Parry: Songs of Farewell on CD

Description

Following a string of five-star reviews for their previous discs of 20th-century French choral music (Poulenc´s Figure Humaine ) and Renaissance polyphony (Victoria´s Requiem), the professional chamber-choir Tenebrae go from strength to strength with this new recording of British partsongs and choral music - centred on Hubert Parry´s Songs of Farewell. Composed towards the end of Parry´s life, the Songs of Farewell have taken on something of an epithetical interpretation: they are almost a musical summation of his compositional life, reflecting Parry´s love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs as much as the influence on his work from German composers like Brahms - made more complicated as these works were composed as the country (and its music) fell out of favour at the start of the Great War.