{"product_id":"john-pickard-vocal-works","title":"John Pickard: Vocal Works","description":"The English composer John Pickard (b. 1963) is best known for a series of powerful orchestral works, five symphonies among them. But this album of songs – his complete output for voice and piano to date – demonstrates that he can generate drama on a smaller scale, too. These settings – of two less familiar poets of the First World War, often exploring man’s relationship with nature, and a translation of a ninth-century Anglo-Saxon phantasmagorical allegory – encompass a wide range of moods, requiring soaring vocal lines, declamatory authority and the gentlest intimacy, supported by piano textures that can flare up in freewheeling virtuosity.","brand":"Toccata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49604840161560,"sku":"5060113444134","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/3744768.jpg?v=1777638716","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/john-pickard-vocal-works","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}