Artist: Francesca Chiejina, Fleur Barron, Natalie Burch
Album: Our Indifferent Century: Britten | Finzi | Marsey | Ward
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:04:31
Total Tracks: 17
Total Size: 1,03 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Francesca Chiejina – On this Island, Op. 11: No. 1, Let the florid music praise! (04:01)
1-02. Francesca Chiejina – On this Island, Op. 11: No. 2, Now the leaves are falling fast (02:15)
1-03. Francesca Chiejina – On this Island, Op. 11: No. 3, Seascape (02:34)
1-04. Francesca Chiejina – On this Island, Op. 11: No. 4, Nocturne (04:35)
1-05. Francesca Chiejina – On this Island, Op. 11: No. 5, As it is, plenty (01:56)
1-06. Francesca Chiejina – Removal and other powers (07:05)
1-07. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 1, Childhood among the Ferns (03:53)
1-08. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 2, Before and after Summer (03:01)
1-09. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 3, The Self-unseeing (02:57)
1-10. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 4, Overlooking the River (02:43)
1-11. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 5, Channel Firing (06:16)
1-12. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 6, In the Mind’s Eye (02:23)
1-13. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 7, The Too Short Time (03:01)
1-14. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 8, Epeisodia (02:34)
1-15. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 9, Amabel (03:10)
1-16. Fleur Barron – Before and after Summer, Op. 16: No. 10, He Abjures Love (04:49)
1-17. Francesca Chiejina – Stranger-friends (07:10)

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In 1914 Thomas Hardy wrote of ‘our indifferent century’; a generation later W.H. Auden urgently sought to fuse the political with the creative.

Today, profoundly unsettled by the turn of the world’s politics, three artists respond with a programme that explores the changes and challenges we face presently, but one that also offers hope, levity an even a degree of irreverence, and never loses sight of the joy and beauty of nature.

Hardy and Auden found their perfect musical counterparts in the songwriting of Finzi and Britten; in our own times William Marsey and Joanna Ward add their own musical voices of political urgency and wistful yearning.