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A Love Letter to Liverpool
THE SPINNERS
arr. Carmel Smickersgill
1.
In My Liverpool Home
5:18
ANON
(1829) 'New Britain'
Words: John Newton • arr. Armand Rabot
2.
Amazing Grace
3:01
CHARLES IVES
Words: Traditional
3.
My Native Land
1:27
TRADITIONAL (ROUD 927)
arr. Marco Galvani
4.
Homeward Bound
4:28
SIR GRANVILLE BANTOCK
arr. Harold Boulton
5.
Song to the Seals
3:59
TRADITIONAL CAROL
[Roud 700]
arr. Grace Evangeline Mason
6.
I Saw Three Ships
2:56
JOHN IRELAND
Words: John Masefield
7.
Sea Fever
2:20
MICHAEL HEAD
Words: Ruth Pitter
8.
The Estuary
4:08
RICHARD MILLER
Words: Roger McGough
9.
The Gateway to the Atlantic
5:09
ARR. BETHAN MORGAN-WILLIAMS
Words: Stan Kelly-Bootle
10.
Liverpool Lullaby
7:04
TRADITIONAL
[Roud 1102]
arr. Armand Rabot
11.
Johnny Todd
1:51
MARK SIMPSON
Words: Melanie Challenger
From the opera Pleasure
12.
What Will They Tell Me Tonight?
4:17
STEPHEN HOUGH
Words: Langston Hughes
13.
Madam and Her Madam
0:59
PAUL MCCARTNEY /CARL DAVIS
Words Paul McCartney
14.
The World You're Coming Into
2:17
LENNON AND MCCARTNEY
arr. Alisdair Hogarth
15.
Blackbird
2:45
MANNING SHERWIN
Words: Eric Maschwitz
arr. Joshua Quinlan
16.
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
2:46
TRADITIONAL
'Londonderry Air'
Words: Frederic Weatherly • arr. Stephen Hough
17.
Danny Boy
2:57
'Aislean an Oigfear' or 'The Young Man's Dream'
Words: Thomas Moore
18.
The Last Rose of Summer
3:57
arr. Richard Miller
19.
The Leaving of Liverpool
4:44
TIMOTHY JACKSON
Words: Mandy Ross
20.
All Our Different Voices
4:25
RICHARD RODGERS
Words: Oscar Hammerstein
From the musical Carousel
21.
You'll Never Walk Alone
4:04
Total time: 74:52
Solo:Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano
Solo:Alisdair Hogarth piano
Solo:Ruby Johnston Thomas soprano (14)
Choral: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir (2)
director & conductor Simon Emery
Choral: Liverpool Philharmonic Training Choir and Melody Makers (20)
director Ali White • conductor Marie-Claire Gervasoni
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir (21)
Conductor:Ian Tracey
22 December 2018 (21)
15-17 March 2019
Notes
Liverpool is a city with a fiercely independent spirit and a rich and dramatic cultural history matching its turbulent development. The past 30 years have witnessed Liverpool’s renaissance, and, thanks to pure Scouse grit, it has reinvented itself as a city of innovation and entrepreneurialism and seen staggering levels of regeneration. Jennifer Johnston’s new album is an affectionate celebration to her native city.
One of the world’s most sought after and in demand mezzo sopranos, Jennifer’s career takes her to the world’s greatest opera houses working with some of the greatest conductors and singers or our time. Her new album is a deeply personal and affectional musical love-letter to her native Liverpool. Johnston: I have sung across the globe and experienced many wonderful places, yet I love nowhere more than Liverpool: the gateway to the Atlantic, my native land, my beloved city, my home.
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Reviews
"... The result is musically satisfying and rather touching, and Johnston lends her warm, communicative mezzo to a range of idioms…The most intriguing parts of the disc are the new works; no fewer than eight, all specially commissioned for the occasion...The cause is good, and the musical content is as intriguing as it is enjoyable. Don’t hold back."
Gramophone magazine – November 2019
"... Her mezzo really is plush, quite grand when she chooses. Johnston offers a huge selection of numbers, 21 in all, which I felt could have been trimmed down a bit. Along with old favourites (You’ll Never Walk Alone is inevitable but worth it) she offers numbers by seven of the Liverpool Philharmonic’s young composers – a nice touch " ****
Opera Now – October 2019
"... Johnston’s eclectic tribute to her native city integrates traditional, popular and classical into a seamless musical panorama, exquisitely sung throughout. A beauty."
The Sunday Times – 15 September 2019
"...This is a fierce, big-hearted and atmospheric tribute to Johnston’s home city, celebrated in rewardingly unsoupy arrangements of popular romantic, traditional and Beatles songs – Johnston handles them all with rich colours, elegance and feeling."
The Observer – 15 September 2019
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