IDAGIO | Venables: On the Wings of Love - Venetian Songs 747313251476

Featuring

Andrew Kennedy
Richard Hosford
Iain Burnside
Ian Venables

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Composer Biography

Ian Venables is the President of The Arthur Bliss Society and Chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society, and has orchestrated and edited works by Gurney.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ian Venables believes that when a composer's music fully aligns with a poet's intentions, a new art form called 'art-song' is created.

Composer Biography

Ian Venables is an expert on the 19th-century poet and literary critic John Addington Symonds, having set five of his poems to music and contributed an essay to a book about him.

Performer Biography

Iain Burnside, the pianist, has a strong association with the Rosenblatt Recital Series and has recorded extensively, particularly British music, for labels like Naxos and Signum.

Performer Biography

Andrew Kennedy, the tenor on this recording, won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize in 2005 and the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists' Award in 2006.

Composer Biography

Ian Venables, born in Liverpool in 1955, studied music at Trinity College of Music, London, and later in Birmingham.

Performer Biography

Richard Hosford, the clarinetist, has been principal clarinet of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 1994 and was previously principal clarinet with the London Philharmonic.