Charles Villiers Stanford's opera "Shamus O'Brien" was his most lasting operatic success, running for 82 successive nights in London and touring the United Kingdom, before receiving 50 performances on Broadway.
Recording & Production
This album features the first complete recording of Charles Villiers Stanford's "Songs of Faith, Op.97", the first recordings of his "Three Songs of Robert Bridges, Op.43", and the first digital recording of "Four Songs from Shamus O'Brien, Op.61".
Performer Biography
Roderick Williams, a baritone on this recording, is also a composer whose works have been premiered at Wigmore and Barbican Halls and he won the British Composer Awards for best choral composition in 2016.
Compositional Technique
The "Nonsense Rhymes" by Charles Villiers Stanford, a composer, incorporate satirical quotations, musical parodies, and intellectual quips, with references to composers like Grieg, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky.
Composer Biography
Charles Villiers Stanford, a composer, possessed a highly articulate, dry humor, which he expressed through parties at his Kensington home and later in Lower Berkeley Street, entertaining friends and students.
Composer Biography
Charles Villiers Stanford, a composer, had significant teaching duties at the Royal College of Music and held the Professorship of Music at Cambridge University.
Performer Biography
Andrew West, the pianist on this recording, is the Artistic Director of the Nuremberg Chamber Music Festival since 2005 and is a Professor of Chamber Music and Accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Academy of Music.
