Wood reviews
Parry: Songs of Farewell, etc
George Purves (treble); Westminster Abbey Choir/James O'Donnell (Hyperion)
Songs of Vain Glory
This beautifully programmed recital will make you want to rush out and buy as many volumes of British songs as you can. It collects – imaginatively, coherently, and to deeply moving effect – 23 songs on the theme of war.
Calen-O: Songs from the North of Ireland
Northern Irish mezzo-soprano Carolyn Dobbin has set herself the task of collecting and performing art song from her homeland, and here – aided and abetted by one of the most enthusiastically knowledgeable of today’s accompanists – presents a first selection on disc.