Solitude

Blow, John, Corbetta, Francesco, Dowland, John, Eccles, John, Purcell, Henry, Reggio, Pietro, różni kompozytorzy

Acker, Brandon, Balliett, Douglas, Mobley, Reginald

Alpha 1161

After a first album (Because, Alpha 936) devoted to Afro-American spirituals that won several awards (Opus Klassik, Edison Klassiek, GRAMMY® Award nomination), the American countertenor Reginald Mobley devotes this new recording to English repertoire with a simple combination of primarily voice, lute, and viola da gamba. Solitude opens with Henry Purcell's moving 'Tis Nature's Voice and other famous Purcell melodies, sails through John Dowland's deeply melancholy waves, and also reveals the declamatory charm of the 17th-century English composers who surrounded Samuel Pepys. We then travel to America, where contemporary composers Jonathan Woody and Douglas Balliett explore "the indomitable resilience contained in the tale of a runaway slave" as told by the brilliant African-American haiku poet Crystal Simone Smith. With Brandon Acker on lute, theorbo and baroque guitar and Douglas Balliett on viola da gamba and double bass, Reggie completes this intimate journey with songs arranged in the 19th century by the black American guitarist, composer and abolitionist Justin Holland.

Works:

•Henry Purcell: 'Tis Nature's Voice aus Hail, bright Cecilia
•Henry Purcell: Music for a While
•Henry Purcell: O Solitude, my sweetest Choice
• Francesco Corbetta: Chiacona
• Pietro Reggio: David
• John Blow / Cesare Morelli: Go, perjured Man
• Samuel Pepys / Cesare Morelli: Beauty, retire!
• Phoebus, God beloved by Men
• John Eccles: Ground aus The Mad Lover Suite
• John Dowland: Flow, my Tears
• John Dowland: Sorrow, stay
• John Dowland: Fortune my Love
• John Dowland: Time stands still
• Douglas Bailliett: Sam; Ely or July
• Jonathan Woody: Ain't you my Child
• William Foden: Barcarolle
• William Marshall Hutchison / Justin Holland: Dream Faces
• Caroline Norton / Justin Holland: Juanita
• Henry Clay Work / Justin Holland: The Ship that never returned

CD x 1

Alpha

1.10.2025

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