Vaughan Williams - The First Songs of Travel: The 1954 Standen-Stone Recital
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Label: Albion Records
Cat No: ALBCD055
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 23rd June 2023
Contents
Works
A Christmas CarolSea Songs (6)
Salt-Water Ballads (3)
Four by the Clock
Songs of the Sea (5), op.91
Silent Noon
Songs of Travel (9)
Captain Stratton's Fancy
Artists
Richard Standen (bass-baritone)Frederick Stone (piano)
Works
A Christmas CarolSea Songs (6)
Salt-Water Ballads (3)
Four by the Clock
Songs of the Sea (5), op.91
Silent Noon
Songs of Travel (9)
Captain Stratton's Fancy
Artists
Richard Standen (bass-baritone)Frederick Stone (piano)
About
This was the first recording of the (then) entire Songs of Travel and includes premiere recordings of five of the songs. We now know the full cycle of nine songs, but only eight of them were published in the composer's lifetime. The ninth song was not found until after the composer's death, some four years after this recording was made. Standen's performance of Songs of Travel was highly regarded by Vaughan Williams.
Richard Standen lived from 1912 to 1987. He appeared on many recital and concert broadcasts on the BBC and soloed in the Bach passions under Vaughan Williams's baton. He was a popular soloist in choral festivals throughout Great Britain and the European continent during 25 years of active performing, as well as a popular song recitalist. For 20 years he was a well-regarded professor of voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, beginning in 1963.
Frederick Stone is only known today as Kathleen Ferrier's accompanist on a frequently reissued recital disc, but he had a remarkable 30-year career as a staff accompanist for the BBC and appeared in hundreds of broadcasts with many of the great and near-great performers of his time. This release pays homage to an artist who, sadly now almost forgotten, should be much better known.
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