Come, Let Us Make Love Deathless
James Geer (tenor), Ronald Woodley (piano)
By avoiding fussy rhetoric and allowing Holst’s setting to speak serenely on its own terms, they find the music’s effortless nobility, even if they cannot make its fortissimo ending sound other...
Come, Let Us Make Love Deathless
James Geer (tenor), Ronald Woodley (piano)
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By avoiding fussy rhetoric and allowing Holst’s setting to speak serenely on its own terms, they find the music’s effortless nobility, even if they cannot make its fortissimo ending sound other...
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This latest disc from EM Records, ‘Come, let us make love deathless’, explores two very different and intriguing aspects of early twentieth-century English music, with twenty-five songs by Gustav Holst (1874–1934) and Joseph Holbrooke (1878–1958), including World Première recordings of twelve works.
James Geer is fast gaining a reputation as one of the UK’s most engaging lyric tenors, whose voice has a particularly natural attraction to English songs of this period. He is partnered on the disc by Ronald Woodley, whose combined expertise as performer and musicologist brings a fresh research dimension to these new and rarely performed repertories. The recording was made in August 2018 in the Bradshaw Hall of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, engineered and produced by Andrew Hallifax.
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March 2020
By avoiding fussy rhetoric and allowing Holst’s setting to speak serenely on its own terms, they find the music’s effortless nobility, even if they cannot make its fortissimo ending sound other than bombastic. The rest of the cycle, though, is beautifully and straight-forwardly present – and scrupulously prepared.
