Credits:

Belinda Williams / Mark Wilde & David Owen Norris

Description:

The Worlds First Recording of W.S. Bennetts Complete Art Songs!EMRecords, the in-house label of the English Music Festival, which continues to release a steady stream of little-known works and new compositions from modern British music.William Standley Bennett (18161875), a 19th-century British composer and pianist who also enjoyed a reputation as a concert pianist, frequently visited Germany and was friends with Mendelssohn and Schumann. At that time, musical exchange between English and German was thrivingas evidenced by the publication of songs by Elgar and Britten in Germanand this recording features the complete song cycle of W.S. Bennett, including 12 songs in English and German published in London and Leipzig (a world premiere recording).Parrys Four Shakespeare Sonnets also exist in a German version translated by Bodenschott; Belinda Williams sings th