Charles Wood: Songs for Voice & Piano Carolyn Dobbin, Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

• Charles Wood (1866 - 1926): O Captain! my Captain!:
• 1 Wood: O Captain! my Captain! 04:36
• The Sailor Man:
• 2 Wood: The Sailor Man 02:11
• Birds:
• 3 Wood: Birds 03:11
• The Blackberry Blossom:
• 4 Wood: The Blackberry Blossom 03:20
• Oh! Skylark, for thy wing!:
• 5 Wood: Oh! Skylark, for thy wing! 03:13
• The Ride of the Witch:
• 6 Wood: The Ride of the Witch 01:11
• The Enchanted Valley:
• 7 Wood: The Enchanted Valley 02:01
• Fortune and her Wheel:
• 8 Wood: Fortune and her Wheel 01:42
• Over here:
• 9 Wood: Over here 02:18
• Ethiopia Saluting the Colours:
• 10 Wood: Ethiopia Saluting the Colours 04:04
• I’d roam the world over with you:
• 11 Wood: I’d roam the world over with you 03:54
• Darest thou now, O soul:
• 12 Wood: Darest thou now, O soul 03:22
• Denny’s Daughter:
• 13 Wood: Denny’s Daughter 03:05
• Beside the River Loune:
• 14 Wood: Beside the River Loune 03:44
• By the bivouac’s fitful flame:
• 15 Wood: By the bivouac’s fitful flame 03:38
• O love, ’tis a calm starry night:
• 16 Wood: O love, ’tis a calm starry night 03:09
• At the mid hour of night:
• 17 Wood: At the mid hour of night 03:04
• At Sea:
• 18 Wood: At Sea 03:25
• Shall I forget:
• 19 Wood: Shall I forget 02:41
• The Outlaw of Loch Lene:
• 20 Wood: The Outlaw of Loch Lene 03:23
• Credhe’s Lament for Cail:
• 21 Wood: Credhe’s Lament for Cail 03:47
• Ask me no more:
• 22 Wood: Ask me no more 03:24
• To Music:
• 23 Wood: To Music 02:32
• Total Runtime 01:10:55

Info zu Charles Wood: Songs for Voice & Piano

Charles Wood, der sich seines Rufs als Hauptvertreter der anglikanischen Kirchenmusik sicher ist, offenbart in seinen weltlichen Liedern ein tieferes, vielseitigeres Talent. Er schöpft aus reichhaltigen literarischen Einflüssen - von Christina Rossetti bis Walt Whitman - sowie aus einem tiefen Interesse an der irischen kulturellen Wiederbelebung und schafft durch die Balance zwischen zarter Lyrik und reichhaltigen harmonischen Strukturen eine komplexe Landschaft von emotionaler und intellektueller Tiefe.

Für Carolyn Dobbins drittes Album bei Delphian wird sie von den Meistern des britischen Liedes Roderick Williams und Iain Burnside in herzlichen Interpretationen begleitet, die diesen stimmungsvollen Werken Leben einhauchen.

Carolyn Dobbin, Mezzosopran
Roderick Williams, Bariton
Iain Burnside, Klavier

Carolyn Dobbin
Carrickfergus born, Northern Irish mezzo-soprano and Samling Foundation Scholar, Carolyn Dobbin, trained on the Opera Theatre Company Young Artist Programme in Dublin and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She was Associate Artist at Welsh National Opera 2010-11 and soloist at Luzerner Theatre Switzerland 2012-2014.

In 23/24/25 carolyn will sang the role of Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, the Bach B minor and Dvorak Stabat Mater both with the Ulster orchestra and jac Van Steen, Verdi Requiem in Sloan Square, a recital with Ruth McGinley, the role of Lena in La Ciociara by Marco Tutino for Wexford Festival Opera shown live on RTE, Opera Vision and ARTETV and la marquise de Berkenfield in La Fille du Regiment also for Wexford Festival Opera, Siegrune in Die Walküre as part of the Longborough Festival Operas Ring Cycle and the London Opera Company and two further CD recordings with Delphian records. One on female composers from Ulster and the other with Roderick Williams and Iain burnside on Charles Wood. She will perform the roles of Mistress Quickly in Falstaff at Westgreen house, The Sorceress from Dido and Aeneas conducted by Christian Curnyn in Berlin, Irish collective and the AKAMUS Germany and Madam Larina in Eugene Onegin with NI opera, both Erda Siegried London Opera Comoany) and Ruth in Pirates of Penzance for English National opera (understudy) and she will perform Mary in Der Fliegende Holländer with Grange Park Opera and Sir Bryn Terfel and again with Iirish National Opera ( Fergus Sheil, Rachel Hewer) in 2025. Other roles in 2025 include Mistress Quickly at the St Endellion Festival with Roderick Williams, Darren Jeffries, Peter Hoare, mark Padmore, Rachel Nicholls, Elin Pritchard, conducted by Paul Daniel and then Florence Pike in London with more details to follow…. BBC RADIO 3 recital in the summer more details to follow.

2020 brought her debut with Irish National Opera as the Witch in Humperdincks Hansel and Gretel , Mary in Der Fliegende Hollander with Sir Bryn Terfel at Grange Park Opera, Cuniza in Verdis first opera Oberto for Chelsea Opera Group at the Cadogan Hall, and the inaugural performance with the newly formed Les Foyer des Artistes.

She also performed a couple of other online operas during lockdown, one with INO written by Conor Mitchell called Message for Marty, another Auschwitz lovers by filip Holacky for Opera Harmony, shown on opera vision world wide and also NIOpera ‘Northern Songs’ video at Dunluce castle and Glenarm. She performed Mrs Peachums guide to love and marriage, performed in the award winning film,’ old friends and other days’ by NI opera and causeway pictures and Ulster Touring Operas inaugural tour , and sang Siegrune in Die Walküre at Longborough.

In 2019 she performed the role of Smeton in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at Longborough Festival Opera and performed Fenena in Verdi’s Nabucco and Alisa in Lucia Di Lammermoor for Dorset Opera Festival, performed the role of Mrs Peachum in Mrs Peachum school for love and marriage, as well as recitals, one of which is in the Houses of Parliament.

In opera, Carolyn Dobbin has worked with numerous companies including Irish National Opera, Dorset Opera Festival, English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, English Touring Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Castleward Opera, Stadttheater Bern (Switzerland), Mid Wales Opera, Opera Della Luna, Opera Holland Park, Opera Theatre Company, The Opera Group, Raymond Gubbay Ltd and Welsh National Opera. Her repertoire includes Chloe / All That Money Can Buy, the title role in Carmen, Alisa / Lucia di Lammermoor, Miss Catchall / Vera of Las Vegas, Bradamante / Alcina, Teodata / Flavio, Lisetta / Il mondo della luna, Dorabella / Così fan tutte, Zweite Dame / Die Zauberflöte, Idamante / Idomeneo, Nicklaus / Les contes d’Hoffmann, Dido and First Witch / Dido and Aeneas at the Barbican, Ottavia / L’incorazione di Poppea, Cherubino / Le nozze di Figaro, Irene / Theodora, Concepcion / L’heure espagnole, Orlofsky / Die Fledermaus, Meg Page / Falstaff, Maddalena / Rigoletto, and Flora Bervoix / La traviata.

In 2010-11, Carolyn Dobbin was a WNO Associate Artist and the recipient of the WNO Chris Ball Bursary and Sir John Moores Award. She sang the roles of Mercedes / Carmen and Zweite Dame / Die Zauberflöte, as well as covering the title role in Bizet’s Carmen and Maddalena / Rigoletto.

Other stage performances include Janet / The Doctor’s Tale for ROH Linbury and Scipio / Caligula and Hannah / The Passenger, both for English National Opera; shown on BBCRadio3 Andronico / Tamerlano for Capella Cracoviensis; Meg Page / Falstaff for Opera Holland Park; Emilia / Otello for Dorset Opera; and Maddalena / Rigoletto for Grange Park Opera, Irene / Theodora with the Hannover band. ....

Roderick Williams
is one of the UK’s most sought-after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing repertoire from the baroque to world premieres.

Opera engagements have included major roles at leading opera houses worldwide including the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, English National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Dallas Opera, the Bregenz Festival and Oper Köln. He has been involved in many world premieres including Alexander Knaifel’s Alice in Wonderland, several operas by Michel van der Aa, the title role in Robert Saxton’s The Wandering Jew, and the UK premiere of Sally Beamish’s Judas Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment.

Notable operatic engagements have included Oronte in Charpentier’s Medée, Toby Kramer in van der Aa’s Sunken Garden, Don Alfonso / Cosi fan Tutte and Sharpless / Madam Butterfly and baritone in a staging of Britten’s War Requiem for English National Opera, the title role in Eugene Onegin for Garsington Opera, the title role in Billy Budd for Opera North, van der Aa’s After Life at Melbourne State Theatre and at Opera de Lyon, and van de Aa’s Upload for Dutch National Opera, the Bregenz Festival, Oper Köln and at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. He has also appeared as Papageno and as Ulisse / Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria for the Royal Opera House, Toby Kramer for Dallas Opera, and Christus / St John Passion in staged performances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, both under Sir Simon Rattle. In 2023 he sang Germont in La Traviata at the St Endellion Festival and recorded the role for a new film by Opera Glassworks which was released on Sky Arts in January 2025. Future engagements include Yeletsky / Pique Dame for Garsington Opera.

Recent and future concert engagements include performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Hallé, Britten Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Gabrieli Consort, The Sixteen, The King’s Consort, Le Concert Spirituel, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Berlin Philharmonic, RIAS Kammerchor, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Bayerische Rundfunk, San Francisco Symphony, Music of the Baroque Chicago, New York Philharmonic, Utah Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Sao Paulo Symphony, Bach Collegium Japan, and Singapore Symphony. He is a regular performer at the BBC Proms, featuring as the soloist in the Last Night in 2014, and most recently appearing in the St Matthew Passion in 2021, and the world premiere of Matthew Kaner’s ‘Pearl’ in 2022. Other recent engagements included tours of Japan with the BBC SO, of Europe with the RIAS Kammerchor, and of North America with Bach Collegium Japan.

He is an accomplished recital artist who can be heard regularly at venues and festivals including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, LSO St Luke’s, the Perth Concert Hall, Ludlow Song Festival, Oxford Lieder Festival, Howard Assembly Room in Leeds, Bath International Festival, Three Choirs Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, the Concertgebouw and the Musikverein. In 2019 he performed all three Schubert cycles at Wigmore Hall. His recital programmes often feature repertoire by British composers, including many new works. He appears frequently on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 as both performer and presenter.

His numerous recordings include Vaughan Williams, Berkeley and Britten operas for Chandos, and an extensive repertoire of English song with pianist Iain Burnside for Naxos. Other recent recordings include an award-winning disc of French song with Roger Vignoles for Champs Hill Records, the three Schubert Cycles with Iain Burnside for Chandos, and recordings of Stanford and Somervell with Susie Allan for Somm. He has also recorded Schubert’s Winter Journey in a new translation by Jeremy Samms with Christopher Glynn for Signum. He sang Captain Balstrode / Peter Grimes with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra for Chandos (Gramophone Recording of the Year 2021). He has also recorded his own arrangement of Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad and other English repertoire with the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder, also for Chandos.

He is an established composer and has recently taken up the role of Composer in Association of the BBC Singers. Commissions include a major work, World without End, for the RIAS Kammerchor and BBC Singers, as well as a commission to celebrate the centenary of the RAF. He was Artistic Director of Leeds Lieder + in April 2016 and Artist in Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 2020-2022. Currently he is ‘singer-in-residence’ for Music in the Round in Sheffield, presenting concerts and leading on dynamic and innovative learning and participation projects that introduce amateur singers, young and old, to performing classical song repertoire. In 2023 he was Artistic Director of the St Endellion Summer Festival, and Artist in Residence at the Aldeburgh Festival.

In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award, and in June 2017 was awarded an OBE for services to music. He also performed at the Coronation of King Charles III in 2023.

Iain Burnside
Thanks to prolific careers both as pianist and award-winning broadcaster, Iain is one of the UK’s best-known musicians. Iain has worked with a broad roster of international singers: Dame Margaret Price, Rosa Feola, Ailish Tynan, Joyce DiDonato, Laurence Brownlee, Roderick Williams, and Bryn Terfel, among many others. He has recorded more than 60 CDs, often created around neglected composers, where his curatorial skills are displayed to the full. He is a great champion of young singers, playing a crucial role in introducing them to a wider audience. Recent highlights include a Rachmaninov Song Series at Wigmore Hall with outstanding Slavic singers, following his acclaimed Delphian recordings of Rachmaninov and Medtner. Other Delphian collaborations range from Schubert Lieder to songs from each of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland.

Innovative programme planning has led Iain to expand his concert work into a hybrid form of music theatre, creating staged work around Brahms (Shining Armour), Wagner (The View from the Villa) and Gurney (A Soldier and a Maker). He has broadcast extensively on both radio and TV, notably as host of BBC R3’s acclaimed Voices series.

In addition to a long association with London’s Guildhall School, Iain is Visiting International Artist at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. Competitions where he has served as a jury member include Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels, Busoni and Honens piano competitions and Wigmore Hall International Song Competition. He is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange Park Opera, Surrey.