Celebrating English Song

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
November 17, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BUTTERWORTH VENABLES GURNEY
    • PERFORMER
      Williams, Allan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 17, 2017
    • UPC
      748871017726
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0177
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Loveliest of trees

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    2. No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    3. No. 3. Look not in my eyes

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    4. No. 4. Think no more, lad

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    5. No. 5. The lads in their hundreds

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    6. No. 6. Is my team ploughing?

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    7. Great Things

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    8. Sea Fever

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    9. We'll to the Woods No More: No. 2. In Boyhood

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    10. Marigold: No. 1. Youth's Spring-Tribute

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    11. A Kiss, Op. 15

      Composer: Ian Venables

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    12. The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    13. Black Stitchel

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    14. Lights Out: No. 4. Lights Out

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    15. Captain Stratton's Fancy

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    16. Songs of Travel: No. 1. The Vagabond

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    17. 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1. Weep You No More

      Composer: Roger Quilter

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    18. Jillian of Berry

      Composer: Peter Warlock

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    19. 7 Poems of James Joyce: No. 4. The Pleasant Valley

      Composer: Ernest John Moeran

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    20. Flying Crooked, Op. 28, No. 1

      Composer: Ian Venables

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    21. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, "British Isles": No. 1. The Salley Gardens

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    22. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 1. The Plough Boy

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    23. No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    24. No. 2. Who is Silvia?

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    25. No. 3. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    26. No. 4. O Mistress Mine

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    27. No. 5. It was a Lover and his Lass

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    28. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4. Sleep

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan


This wonderful Celebration of English Song was recorded especially for SOMM by baritone Roderick Williams deliciously partnered here by Susie Allan in a collection to gladden the hearts of all lovers of English music. This splendidly wide-ranging collection features two well-loved song cycles, Butterworth's Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad and Finzi's Let us Garlands bring. It also includes some of the best- known English songs of the periods before and after World War II - Ireland's world- famous Sea Feverand Great Things and The Kiss and Flying Crooked, from Ian Venables - now widely regarded as the finest living English composer of art songs and a true successor to Benjamin Britten, represented here by two irresistible settings of English folk-songs, The Salley Gardens and The Ploughboy. Also included are songs by Quilter, Gurney, Warlock and E.J. Moeran.