Soprano Deborah Sternberg brings together three song cycles themed on birds, each with its own unique flavour and expressive vocabulary. Andrew Earle Simpson’s eloquent skills as a composer and pianist are united in Birds of Love and Prey, in which both antique and modern textual sources contrast songbirds and predators in a variety of ways. Eric Kitchen uses transcriptions of actual birdsong in The Olney Avian Verse of William Cowper, while Gabriel Thibaudeau’s Cycle Avicellus portrays birds within landscapes using a language of modern impressionism.
Tracklist
Artist details
Simpson, Andrew Earle
Tennyson, Alfred - Lyricist
Aristophanes - Lyricist
Simpson, Andrew Earle - Lyricist
Keats, John - Lyricist
Ferrario, S.B. - Lyricist
Millett, E.N. - Lyricist
Barbier, Jules - Lyricist
Birds of Love and Prey
1 Prologue: Bird Cadenza 01:43
2 No. 1. O Beloved Nightingale 01:16
3 No. 2. The Tit and the Lovebird 02:15
4 No. 3. The Eagle 01:47
5 No. 4. Night Interlude 01:56
6 No. 5. The Owl and the Nightingale 05:21
7 No. 6. Bird Cadenza 00:50
8 No. 7. The Turtle Dove 04:45
9 No. 8. Interlude 01:22
10 No. 9. Blest are the Birds on the Wing 02:17
Kitchen, Eric
Cowper, William - Lyricist
The Olney Avian Verse of William Cowper
11 No. 1. The Faithful Bird 05:04
12 No. 2. To the Nightingale 03:18
13 No. 3. On the Swallow 02:06
14 No. 4. Sparrows Self-domesticated 03:39
15 No. 5. Invitation to the Redbreast 04:58
Thibaudeau, Gabriel
Bielinski, Mykalle - Lyricist
Cycle Avicellus
16 No. 1. De ton perchoir (From your perch) 05:03
17 No. 2. Blanc harfang (Snowy owl) 04:17
18 No. 3. Ils partent (They're leaving) 04:54
19 No. 4. Envol (Soaring) 03:51
Total Playing Time: 01:00:42
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