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ACD149

Charms and Knots

Performers:


Christine Griffiths



Composers:


David Griffiths




Serious songs of a serious young man – these cycles represent to some extent a spiritual journey. Though written at a time of happiness, newly married with a baby son, gainfully employed at Auckland and later Otago University and involved in a rich variety of musical activities, they carry a cry from the heart for certainty. The tenuous options of Shoriken and the capriciousness of human love give way to a place of rest through the Herbert songs; as Luigi Santucci writes,‘Wrestling with Christ’. Earnest they may be and yes, in a sense, a personal testimony.

1.

Shoriken (1979)

poems by Charles Brasch

David Griffiths

20:20

17.

Five Songs of Love (1979): Change

poems by A.R.D.Fairburn

David Griffiths

2:54

18.

Five Songs of Love (1979): Song

poems by A.R.D.Fairburn

David Griffiths

2:00

19.

Five Songs of Love (1979): Choice

poems by A.R.D.Fairburn

David Griffiths

1:17

20.

Five Songs of Love (1979): Meeting

poems by A.R.D.Fairburn

David Griffiths

2:00

21.

Five Songs of Love (1979): Let us Make an End

poems by A.R.D.Fairburn

David Griffiths

3:00

22.

Charms & Knots (1987): The Knell

poems by George Herbert

David Griffiths

3:22

23.

Charms & Knots (1987): Charms & Knots

poems by George Herbert

David Griffiths

4:23

24.

Charms & Knots (1987): Bitter Sweet

poems by George Herbert

David Griffiths

1:38

25.

Charms & Knots (1987): The 23rd Psalm

poems by George Herbert

David Griffiths

5:00

26.

Charms & Knots (1987): A True Hymn

poems by George Herbert

David Griffiths

2:36