James Gilchrist & Nathan Williamson: One Hundred Years Of Br

SOMM Recordings announces the third and final volume of the enthusiastically received One Hundred Years of British Song. Receiving first recordings are John Woolrich’s settings of Irish poet Matthew Sweeney, The Unlit Suburbs, an evocative exercise in “alternative realism”, and Geoffrey Poole’s stylistically wide-ranging The Eye of the Blackbird, with texts from Virginia Woolf, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Requiem Mass. (SOMM)