Wood: Wild Cyclamen

This latest NMC release of works by composer Hugh Wood presents a selection of career-spanning songs exploring themes of youth, love, lust and longing, set to poems by DH Lawrence, Robert Graves, Laurie Lee and Lawrence Durrell. Wild Cyclamen (2006) – twelve individual, unrelated Robert Graves poems– depicts the rise and fall of a love affair. Hugh Wood explains: “Graves wrote no such cycle but I’ve dared to construct one.” The DH Lawrence settings (1998) celebrate various aspects of Greek life and its people. The Laurie Lee Songs (1956-58) are the earliest works on this recording.

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