| Toccata Classics |  |
| Disc No: TOCC 0005 | |
| Price: Sek. 160 | |
| Name: Havergal Brian The Soul of Steel | |
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Havergal Brian (1876–1972) is renowned as the composer of 32 powerful symphonies (then the largest symphonic cycle since Haydn), 21 of them composed after his 80th birthday; his First Symphony, The Gothic, is reputed to be the largest ever composed. But in the first part of his career Brian was also active on a smaller scale, his songs attracting the advocacy of singers as prominent as John McCormack and John Coates. The range of emotion in these songs is nonetheless vast, from folky innocence via Shakespearean irony to deep tragedy. Brian Rayner Cook’s performances can be taken as authoritative: he studied the songs with the composer. The CD is completed by the Legend, Brian’s only surviving piece of chamber music. |
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| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Brian, Havergal (1876-1972) | When Icicles Hang by the Wall | Brian Rayner Cook, baritone Roger Vignoles, piano Stephen Levine, violin | ||
| Brian, Havergal | Take, O Take Those Lips Away | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Sorrow Song | |||
| Brian, Havergal | The Message | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Farewell | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Care-Charmer Sleep | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Since Love is Dead | |||
| Brian, Havergal | The Soul of Steel | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Why Dost Thou Wound and Break My Heart? | |||
| Brian, Havergal | On Parting | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Lady Ellayne | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Renunciation | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Love is a Merry Game | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Piping Down the Valleys Wild | |||
| Brian, Havergal | The Chimney Sweeper | |||
| Brian, Havergal | The Land of Dreams | |||
| Brian, Havergal | The Defiled Sanctuar | |||
| Brian, Havergal | Legend, for violin and piano |