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ID: ALBCD006 (EAN: 5060158190065) | 1 CD | DDD Released in: 2008
- LABEL:
- Albion Records
- Subcollection:
- Vocal and Piano
- Composers:
- WILLIAMS, Ralph Vaughan
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Interprets:
- HARTVEIT, Orjan (baritone) | YOUNG, Alistair (piano)
- Ensembles:
- Joyful Company of Singers
- Conductors:
- BROADBENT, Peter
- Other info:
This is the fourth disc from Albion Records which is part of the Vaughan Williams Society.
Albion Records Ltd, a not-for-profit record label, is dedicated to recording rare 20th century English classical music, concentrating on Ralph Vaughan Williams. The label is a subsidiary of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and each of the CDs will contain world première recordings.
These vocal works were composed from 1895 and 1954 showing Vaughan Williams lifelong affection for the human voice.
Performed by the award winning Joyful Company of Singers, under Peter Broadbent, one of Europe’s leading Chamber Choirs
Recorded in the approximate order of composition this recording shows how much Vaughan Williams adapted his style over about sixty years.
| WILLIAMS, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958) | | | 1. | No longer mourn for me (Sonnet 71, partsong for six voices (incomplete) | 3:03 | | | 2. | Echo's Lament for Narcissus ('Slow, slow, fresh fount'), madrigal for double chorus (incomplete) | 3:11 | | | Three Elizabethan Part Songs | | | 3. | Sweet Day | 2:14 | | | 4. | Willow Song | 1:44 | | | 5. | O Mistress Mine | 1:13 | | | 6. | Come away Death | 2:42 | | | 7. | Linden Lea (arranged by Arthur Somervell) | 2:24 | | | 8. | Ring out your bells | 3:38 | | | 9. | Rest | 3:02 | | | 10. | Fain would I change that note | 2:19 | | | 11. | Alister McAlpine's Lament | 2:54 | | | 12. | The Winter is Gone | 1:56 | | | 13. | Mannin Veen (Dear Mona) | 3:29 | | | 14. | Our love goes out to English skies | 2:07 | | | 15. | Loch Lomond | 3:07 | | | 16. | The Mermaid | 3:42 | | | 17. | A Farmer's Son so Sweet | 2:02 | | | 18. | The Turtle Dove | 2:55 | | | Sun, Moon, Stars and Man, song cycle for unison chorus & strings or piano (based on cantata 'The Sons of Light') | | | 19. | The New Commonwealth | 2:55 | | | 20. | Horses of the Sun | 2:36 | | | 21. | The Rising of the Moon | 2:41 | | | 22. | The Procession of the Stars | 2:03 | | | 23. | The Song of the Sons of Light | 2:14 | |
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