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James Joyce 's Chamber Music (Second Part)

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1.
Be Not Sad 04:29
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2.
In The Dark Pine-Wood 02:24
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3.
His Love 00:23
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4.
He Who Hath Glory Lost 01:37
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5.
His Companion 00:23
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6.
Of That So Sweet Imprisonment 03:31
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7.
This Heart 05:24
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8.
Between Kiss And Kiss 01:05
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9.
Silently She's Combing 03:19
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10.
On The Drappled Grass 00:50
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11.
Lightly Come Or Lightly Go 04:59
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12.
Thou Leanest To The Shell Of Night 01:48
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13.
At Ghosting Hour 00:54
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14.
Though I Thy Mithridates Were 02:39
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15.
Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing 02:52
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16.
Dear Heart 03:47
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17.
Love Came To Us 02:04
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18.
O, It Was Out By Donnycarney 02:49
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19.
Bat 01:53
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20.
Rain Has Fallen 01:31
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21.
Now O Now 05:58
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22.
The Wind Is Whistling 01:34
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23.
Sleep Now 02:58
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24.
Unquiet 01:21
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25.
All Day I Hear The Noise Of Waters 04:55
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26.
I Hear An Army 05:00
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27.
Fluttering Whips 02:15
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about

This is the second volume of musical settings of James Joyce poems by Martyn Bates, published in 1996.

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Matthews in May, 1907.

The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication ("All day I hear the noise of waters"
and "I hear an army charging upon the land").

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released January 24, 2016

Released barely four months after Chamber Music, Vol. 1, this 27-track follow-up completes the song cycle, putting half of James Joyce's 1902 chapbook Chamber Music into a cappella musical settings. Where Vol. 1 had occasionally colored the pieces with ambient keyboards and acoustic instruments, Chamber Music, Vol. 2 is a strictly voice-only affair, the most purely minimalist recording of Bates' entire career. As before, Bates sets Joyce's poetry into melodies taken (often piecemeal) from British and Irish folk tradition, a canny idea that helps to reveal the influence of popular ballad singing on the Irish author's idiosyncratic but surprisingly traditional sense of meter. Often, musical settings of poetry sound forced and awkward; these 27 miniatures sound like Joyce had written these poems to these melodies, and the results are far more natural sounding than is usually the case with this kind of experiment. Bates would experiment further with both folk music and poetry for the next several years, but the two volumes of Chamber Music are the pinnacle of his explorations.
Stewart Mason /AMG

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