Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry is often thought of as a choral composer but he was prolific in most genres. The Sonnets and Songs Without Words are influenced by Mendelssohn's piano works similarly entitled Songs Without Words. The pieces were written over 10 years and were originally published in three sets. All three sets are combined in this fantastic volume.
SKU: ST.MB49
ISBN 9790220212093.
This is a representative collection of solo songs by a seminal figure in the English Musical Renaissance. 36 items selected from the English Lyrics show a fine sense of word setting and poetic subtlety, with texts by Sir Philip Sidney, Shelley, Scott, Lovelace, Beddoes, Byron, Keats, Sir John Suckling, Julian Sturgis, Beaumont and Fletcher, Meredith, Haywood, Herrick, Thomas Lodge and Rossetti. The four Shakespeare Sonnets are also included.
