Fame's Great Trumpet
Mark Wilde (tenor), Joseph Spooner (cello) & David Owen Norris (piano)
David Owen Norris's attractive settings of Donne, Sassoon and others are followed by Britten's magnificent Donne cycle. Strong performances.
Fame's Great Trumpet
Mark Wilde (tenor), Joseph Spooner (cello) & David Owen Norris (piano)
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David Owen Norris's attractive settings of Donne, Sassoon and others are followed by Britten's magnificent Donne cycle. Strong performances.
About
EM Records joins the centenary celebrations for Benjamin Britten, with his Holy Sonnets of John Donne, alongside settings of the same poet by David Owen Norris, and Norris’s staggeringly powerful First World War song-cycle Think Only This.
Contents and tracklist
- David Owen Norris, Mark Wilde
- David Owen Norris, Mark Wilde, Joseph Spooner
- David Owen Norris, Mark Wilde
Awards and reviews
December 2013
David Owen Norris's attractive settings of Donne, Sassoon and others are followed by Britten's magnificent Donne cycle. Strong performances.
October 2013
Wilde proves an impressive soloist...[his] voice may not be very beautiful, but it is ideally steady and precise...A great credit to all who contributed to a most attractive disc.
2nd December 2013
I was most moved by ‘The Soldier’. Norris captures an English pastoral atmosphere which comes as something of a surprise after much of the earlier music. This is an eclectic cycle, quite different from the consistency of language found in Britten
