Vaughan Williams - Folk Songs Vol.1
£13.25
In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Albion Records
Cat No: ALBCD042
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 23rd October 2020
Contents
Artists
Mary Bevan (soprano)Nicky Spence (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Jack Liebeck (violin)
William Vann (piano)
Works
English Folk Songs (6)Folk Songs from Sussex
Sea Songs from The Motherland Song Book Vol.4
Artists
Mary Bevan (soprano)Nicky Spence (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Jack Liebeck (violin)
William Vann (piano)
About
This first album has 23 tracks including 15 world premieres. It includes Folk Songs from Sussex (1912) and Six English Folk Songs (1935). Later volumes will include songs collected in the Eastern Counties (1908), the Appalachian Mountains (about 1938) and from Newfoundland (1946).
Vaughan Williams is well known as a collector of folk songs, but his own collection by no means predominates in this series; most of the arrangements were made and published as a collaborative effort, drawn from many sources. The 14 songs from Sussex on this album were all collected by Percy Merrick from Henry Hills, a farmer from Lodsworth, Sussex, around 1900. Some will be well-known in other arrangements; others will be unfamiliar.
Praised by Opera for her “dramatic wit and vocal control”, British soprano Mary Bevan is internationally renowned in baroque, classical and contemporary repertoire, and appears regularly with leading conductors, orchestras and ensembles around the world.
Opera singer Nicky Spence is one of Scotland’s proudest sons and his unique skills as a singing actor and the rare honesty of his musicianship are steadfastly earning him a place at the top of the classical music profession.
Roderick Williams is one of this country’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award.
In 2010, British violinist Jack Liebeck won a Classical Brit in the young British classical performer category.
Folk Songs from Sussex (1912):
1. Bold General Wolfe
2. Low Down in the Broom
3. The Thresherman and the Squire
4. The Pretty Ploughboy
5. O Who is that that Raps at my Window?
6. How Cold the Wind doth Blow
7. Captain Grant
8. Farewell Lads
9. Come, All You Worthy Christians
10. The Turkish Lady
11. The Seeds of Love
12. The Maid of Islington
13. Here’s Adieu to all Judges and Juries
14. Lovely Joan
Six English Folk Songs (1935):
15. Robin Hood and the Pedlar
16. The Ploughman
17. One Man, Two Men
18. The Brewer
19. Rolling in the Dew
20. King William
Sea Songs from The Motherland Song Book, Volume 4 (1919):
21. The Golden Vanity
22. Just as the Tide was Flowing
23. The Spanish Ladies
Reviews
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here