Name: Day of These Days: The British Isles Reflected in Song
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Day of These Days: The British Isles Reflected in Song

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Day of These Days: The British Isles Reflected in SongSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Such a morning it is, wrote Laurie Lee and this album, taking its title from his poem, is rooted in such particular moments of lived experience, capturing that fleeting, introspective British light. Bass baritone Tristan Hambleton and pianist Simon Lepper create a landscape of songs by Britten, Sally Beamish, Judith Weir, Huw Watkins, Tarik ORegan, Errollyn Wallen and others, many in first recordings, drawn together

If the whole project was built around the MacRae commission

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a disc of Benjamin Britten’s three solo suites

Recorded on 23-25 April 2025 in the Parish Church of St Cuthbert

The music on this album emerges from various points in that eventful decade

"The music makes great demands on the singers

In the turbulent religious climate of Elizabethan England William Byrd wrote — and

here proves himself a fine Elgarian and an inventive programmer

the tone is just right

very exciting

clean-lined yet surging"

Book II wowed critics across the board in January 2012