Martin Shaw Songs: The Airmen
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Label: Delphian
Cat No: DCD34105
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 6th February 2012
Contents
Works
At Columbine's GraveBab-Lock-Hythe
Bird Or Beast?
Brookland Road
Child Of The Flowing Tide
Come Away
Cuckoo
Death
Full Fathom Five
Heffle Cuckoo Fair
I Know A Bank
Invictus
Jack Overdue
Old Clothes And Fine Clothes
Over The Sea With The Soldier
Perilous Ways
Pity The Poor Fighting Men
Summer
The Accursed Wood
The Airmen
The Banks Of Allan Water
The Bubble Song
The Conjuration
The Dip
The Egg-Shell
The Land Of Heart's Desire
The Little Waves Of Breffny
The Melodies You Sing
The Merry Wanderer
The Rivulet
The World's Delight
Tides
Venizel
When Daisies Pied
Wood Magic
Ye Banks And Braes
Artists
Sophie Bevan (soprano)Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Works
At Columbine's GraveBab-Lock-Hythe
Bird Or Beast?
Brookland Road
Child Of The Flowing Tide
Come Away
Cuckoo
Death
Full Fathom Five
Heffle Cuckoo Fair
I Know A Bank
Invictus
Jack Overdue
Old Clothes And Fine Clothes
Over The Sea With The Soldier
Perilous Ways
Pity The Poor Fighting Men
Summer
The Accursed Wood
The Airmen
The Banks Of Allan Water
The Bubble Song
The Conjuration
The Dip
The Egg-Shell
The Land Of Heart's Desire
The Little Waves Of Breffny
The Melodies You Sing
The Merry Wanderer
The Rivulet
The World's Delight
Tides
Venizel
When Daisies Pied
Wood Magic
Ye Banks And Braes
Artists
Sophie Bevan (soprano)Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
About
Shaw delighted in describing himself as a cockney, a title he could claim under Samuel Rowlands's definition of one born within the sound of the Bow Bells. He studied under Stanford at the Royal College of Music, together with a generation of composers that included Holst, Vaughan Williams and John Ireland. He then embarked upon a career as a theatrical producer, composer and conductor, the early years of which he described as "a long period of starving along".
With Gordon Craig, he founded the Purcell Operatic Society in 1899, dedicated to reviving the music of Henry Purcell and other English composers of the period, many of whose works had fallen into long neglect. In 1903, Martin joined Ellen Terry's company at the Imperial Theatre, where he composed and conducted the music for productions of The Vikings and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Craig, Ellen Terry's son.
Shaw toured Europe as conductor to Isadora Duncan, extensively described in his 1929 autobiography 'Up to Now' published by Oxford University Press. During this period he gave music lessons and took posts as organist and director of music, first at St Mary's, Primrose Hill 1902-1920, later at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1920-1924. In 1918 he co-founded the League of Arts, the Royal School of Church Music and was an early organiser of hymn festivals. He did much editorial and executive work in connection with popularising music, the encouragement of community singing and raising standards of choral singing in small parish churches. In 1932 Shaw received the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music. He was appointed an OBE in 1955 and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM) in 1958.
Morning Has Broken, which Martin Shaw commissioned specially from his old friend Eleanor Farjeon, became a No.1 hit for Cat Stevens in 1972.
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