Wild Cyclamen Clare McCaldin

• Hugh Bradshaw Wood (1932-): Laurie Lee Songs
• 1 No. 1. Boy in Ice 02:57
• 2 No. 2. The Edge of Day 02:17
• 3 No. 3. The Easter Green 02:31
• 4 No. 4. Town Owl 03:14
• 5 No. 5. April Rise 03:45
• DH Lawrence Songs:
• 6 No. 1. Dog-tired 02:29
• 7 No. 2. Kisses in the Train 01:50
• 8 No. 3. Roses on the breakfast table 03:04
• 9 No. 4. Gloire de Dijon 02:07
• 10 No. 5. River Roses 03:01
• The Isles of Greece:
• 11 No. 1. Delos 02:36
• 12 No. 2. Nemea 02:44
• 13 No. 3. Ouzo Unclouded 00:45
• 14 No. 4. In the Sea Caves 01:43
• 15 No. 5. The Isles of Greece 02:00
• 16 No. 6. Bitter Lemons 02:41
• Wild Cyclamen:
• 17 No. 1. A Dream of Frances Speedwell 01:57
• 18 No. 2. Wild Cyclamen 01:28
• 19 No. 3. Beatrice and Dante 02:33
• 20 No. 4. The Garden 01:38
• 21 No. 5. The Leap 00:37
• 22 No. 6. Not to Sleep 01:54
• 23 No. 7. The Crab-Tree 02:16
• 24 No. 8. Bites and Kisses 01:38
• 25 No. 9. Horizon 03:02
• 26 No. 10. The Window Sill 02:58
• 27 No. 11. A Lost Jewel 01:18
• 28 No. 12. Hedges Freaked with Snow 01:58
• Total Runtime 01:03:01

Info for Wild Cyclamen

Composer Hugh Wood is known for his powerfully communicative and lyrical music and this latest release presents a selection of songs spanning his career. They are set to poems by DH Lawrence, Robert Graves, Laurie Lee and Lawrence Durrell, exploring themes of youth, love, lust and longing.

Wild Cyclamen (2006) – a song-cycle from twelve individual, unrelated poems by Robert Graves – depicts the rise and fall of a love affair. Hugh Wood explains: “Graves wrote no such cycle but I’ve dared to construct one. It doesn’t achieve too strong a story-line, but the songs are meant to be sung in a fixed order”.

The DH Lawrence settings (1998) include three poems Lawrence wrote about his days with Frieda in Bavaria and the Isles of Greece (2007) is a compilation of poems celebrating various aspects of Greek life and its people.

The earliest works on this recording are the Laurie Lee Songs (1956-58) written when Hugh was in his mid-twenties.

“Wood has produced more than a dozen voice-and-piano works, and here are four: three collections and a song cycle proper. The five Laurie Lee Songs, dating back to 1958, come over with a post-Brittenish freshness.” (Sunday Times, UK)

“Wood is nothing if not a craftsman, and his vocal lines are always skilful amplifications of the text while his idiomatically written piano parts set the voice off to its best advantage” (BBC Music Magazine)

Clare McCaldin, mezzo-soprano
James Gilchrist, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano
Simon Lepper, piano

No biography found.

Booklet for Wild Cyclamen