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Season Songs

Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Eugene Asti (piano), Andrew Leach (piano)

Season Songs
Richard Edgar-Wilson's light, clear tenor is effective in the great Winter Words, and in three atmospheric cycles by composers from Britten's native Suffolk.

BBC Music Magazine, October 20134 out of 5 stars

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Season Songs

Richard Edgar-Wilson (tenor), Eugene Asti (piano), Andrew Leach (piano)

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Richard Edgar-Wilson's light, clear tenor is effective in the great Winter Words, and in three atmospheric cycles by composers from Britten's native Suffolk.

BBC Music Magazine, October 20134 out of 5 stars

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Celebrating Benjamin Britten’s centenary, internationally renowned tenor Richard Edgar-Wilson presents his skilfully composed and colourful song-cycle ‘Winter Words’. The recording is complemented by three other cycles from living composers. Each set of songs draws from poetry, including works by two of Britain’s most prominent poets – Thomas Hardy and R.S.Thomas.

“In Richard Edgar-Wilson, Pimlico Opera has a Peter Quint of quintessential Englishness, trying and tasting every graphically set word in a lightly-sprung, crisply enunciated tenor.” Hilary Finch / The Times - on a production of the ‘Turn of the Screw’

  • Release date: 13th May 2013
  • Label: EM Records
  • Catalogue number: EMRCD014
  • Length: 58 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52
Work length21:02
I. At Day-Close in November
Track length1:45
II. Midnight on the Great Western
Track length4:48
III. Wagtail and Baby
Track length2:05
IV. The Little Old Table
Track length1:22
V. The Choirmaster's Burial
Track length3:45
VI. Proud Songsters
Track length1:07
VII. At the Railway Station, Upway
Track length2:52
VIII. Before Life and after
Track length3:18
Parry, John: Six Songs
Work length13:58
I. Night
Track length1:43
II. A Year to Remember
Track length1:34
III. Red Sky
Track length2:53
IV. Dancing Lesson
Track length3:24
V. Snow
Track length1:39
VI. Making Music
Track length2:45
Parry, B: Season Songs
Work length13:45
  • Richard Edgar-Wilson, Sam Wilson
I. Love and June
Track length1:40
II. Summer Song
Track length1:55
III. September
Track length1:03
IV. Autumn
Track length2:00
V. November Dawn
Track length1:33
VI. Winter Madness
Track length1:35
VII. In April
Track length2:27
VIII. Spring
Track length1:32
Leach, A: Four Songs
Work length9:59
  • Richard Edgar-Wilson, Andrew Leach
I. January
Track length2:24
II. The Hearth
Track length2:26
III. The Cry
Track length2:04
IV. On the Farm
Track length3:05

Awards and reviews

October 2013

Richard Edgar-Wilson's light, clear tenor is effective in the great Winter Words, and in three atmospheric cycles by composers from Britten's native Suffolk.
4 out of 5 stars

September 2013

Edgar-Wilson has a beautiful clear tenor that is ideally suited to suggesting Britten's depths with a certain lightness of sound...[he] and Asti are perfectly attuned to the worlds they convey...It is one of those projects where everything gels and speaks in the most compelling way.

15th November 2013

This CD has been put together with great love and imagination...There is outstanding musicianship on display here, not least in the accomplished and stylish contributions of Edgar-Wilson. Yet my admiration makes it harder for me to confess that I find some of his singing difficult to listen to...Despite my reservations, there is so much to enjoy here
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