HOWARD FRY (Baritone)
THE DORIAN TRIO :
SIR HUBERT PARRY (1848-1918) left us no fewer than twelve books of English
Lyrics, and many people rank some of these among the classics of song. From the sixth set comes a delicate setting of a well-known poem from Thomas Ford's Music of Sundry Kinds (1607), each verse of which ends 'And yet I love her till I die.'
The next fragment (from Set 3) fits vivacious music to Suckling's brisk rallying of the pale lover whose maiden won't listen to his prayers. Meekness and silence, he is sharply told, are of no use ; and the conclusion of the whole matter is : * If of herself she will not love, Nothing will make her. The Devil take her ! '
A Lover's Garland (again from the sixth set) ia a graceful song with verses from the Greek, by that famous lyric writer, Alfred Perceval Graves, ' I'm weaving sweet violets ... Frail narcissus ... for Heliodora's brow.'
THIS Trio is in four Movements, the first ot which is preceded by a brief, rather slow
Introduction. The almost mystical little opening theme of this appears again, still more significantly, when it leads in the second main tune of the Movement proper, and it re-appears in the Coda.
In the Second Movement a very dainty tune alternates with highly-contrasted material—the gruff Beethoven. In the Third Movement wo have his grave beauty, and in the Finale much of his forthrightness.