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Divine Art announces new album of English Song from Trevor Alexander and Peter Crockford

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Trevor Alexander © Peter Crockford/Divine Art

Baritone Trevor Alexander and pianist Peter Crockford have joined Divine Art Recordings for an album celebrating English Song – art-songs by composers well and not-so-well known, and some of the best examples of what is often called the Parlour Ballad so beloved of audiences in the early years of the 20th century.

The album, to be released in the late summer, is to be titled “Dreams, Desires, Desolation”. The artists say:  “Dreams, Desires, Desolation was created out of our love for English Song. The album comprises a real mixture of very familiar songs, along with some relatively unknown ones, and a few which were very popular in their day but have fallen out of fashion. There are also three world premiere recordings. We believe, despite the mixture of styles, each song brings something valid to our concept.”

Since graduating from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Trevor Alexander has worked for numerous companies including Royal Opera, English National Opera, D’Oyly Carte and The Royal Shakespeare Company. He has sung many of the standard baritone operatic roles as well as appearing in musicals and cabaret. He has sung in opera productions and concerts all over the Middle and Far East, and his repertoire is extensive and varied. 

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Peter Crockford © Trevor Alexander/Divine Art

Peter Crockford studied at the Birmingham School of Music and The Royal Northern College of Music. In his early career he was an accompanist and repetiteur for various opera companies including Glyndebourne. He has travelled the world widely as accompanist and Musical Director/Conductor. He conducted the European Tour of West Side Story and was Assistant to the Musical Director at the Stadt Theater, Freiburg. He continues to pursue a career of coaching and playing in concert.     

Dreams, Desires, Desolation

Label: Divine Art

Catalogue number: DDX 21114

Artists: 

  • Trevor Alexander (baritone)
  • Peter Crockford (piano)

Works:

  • Is my Team Ploughing? (George Butterworth)
  • Come to Me in my Dreams (Frank Bridge)
  • I Hear You Calling Me (Charles Marshall)
  • Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Roger Quilter)
  • Go Song of Mine (Clive Pollard) – World premiere recording
  • Do not Go my Love (Richard Hageman)
  • Silent Noon (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
  • Remembrance (Howard Keel)
  • Dream Song (Victor Hely-Hutchinson)
  • What shall I your True Love Tell? (Frank Bridge)
  • Love’s Garden of Roses (Haydn Wood)
  • Autumn (Peter Gellhorn) – World premiere recording
  • If there were Dreams to sell (John Ireland)
  • Silver (Cecil Armstrong Gibbs)
  • The Cloths of Heaven (Clive Pollard) – World premiere recording
  • The Sky above the Roof (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
  • Lullaby (Cyril Scott)
  • Kashmiri Song (Amy Woodforde-Finden)
  • I Arise from Dreams of Thee (Roger Quilter)
  • Journey’s End (Frank Bridge)
  • How Could I ever Know(Lucy Simon)

Recorded in 2022 at the Henry Wood Hall, London