The silken voices of Vox Plexus present a verdant panorama of part song. Finzi’s mellifluous vision of Robert Bridges’ lyric poetry, the scintillatingly lush chromaticism of Delius, and the fresh harmonic piquancy of Britten, all sing the praises of the British countryside. Kodály’s hauntingly wordless Mountain Nights captures the grandeur of soaring peaks, Stenhammar swoons to the fragrance of sunsets in Jacobsen’s florid prose, and Saint-Saëns illuminates us as he evokes eternal nature, before the much-loved shepherd’s song Le baylere transports us blissfully into the springtime afternoon.
Artists
VOX PLEXUS
Lily Flynn
Elspeth Bawden
Liz Chong
Mei Wah Chan
Anish Nair
Dylan Casey
Thomas Drent
Lachlan McDonald
Performing
FINZI I praise the tender flower Clear and gentle stream
DELIUS To be sung on a summer night on the water I To be sung on a summer night on the water II On Craig Ddu Wanderer’s Song
BRITTEN Marsh flowers Evening primrose
KODÁLY Mountain Nights I
STENHAMMAR September I seraillets have
SAINT-SAËNS Calme des nuits Les Fleurs et les arbres
RICHARDS Le baylere
