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Celebrating English Song
SOMM Recordings

Celebrating English Song

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Composer
BUTTERWORTH VENABLES GURNEY
Artist
Williams, Allan
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Nov 17, 2017
Catalog #
SOMMCD 0177
UPC
748871017726

About

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.

Tracklist 28 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Loveliest of trees 02:48
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Loveliest of trees
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  2. 2 No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty 01:22
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty
    Duration
    01:22
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  3. 3 No. 3. Look not in my eyes 02:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Look not in my eyes
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  4. 4 No. 4. Think no more, lad 01:23
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Think no more, lad
    Duration
    01:23
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  5. 5 No. 5. The lads in their hundreds 02:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. The lads in their hundreds
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  6. 6 No. 6. Is my team ploughing? 04:12
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Is my team ploughing?
    Duration
    04:12
    Composer
    George Butterworth
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  7. 7 Great Things 02:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    Great Things
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    John Ireland
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  8. 8 Sea Fever 02:28
    Track
    8
    Title
    Sea Fever
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    John Ireland
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  9. 9 We'll to the Woods No More: No. 2. In Boyhood 01:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    We'll to the Woods No More: No. 2. In Boyhood
    Duration
    01:54
    Composer
    John Ireland
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  10. 10 Marigold: No. 1. Youth's Spring-Tribute 03:50
    Track
    10
    Title
    Marigold: No. 1. Youth's Spring-Tribute
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    John Ireland
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  11. 11 A Kiss, Op. 15 04:18
    Track
    11
    Title
    A Kiss, Op. 15
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Ian Venables
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  12. 12 The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon 04:11
    Track
    12
    Title
    The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  13. 13 Black Stitchel 02:14
    Track
    13
    Title
    Black Stitchel
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Ivor Gurney
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  14. 14 Lights Out: No. 4. Lights Out 03:47
    Track
    14
    Title
    Lights Out: No. 4. Lights Out
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Ivor Gurney
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  15. 15 Captain Stratton's Fancy 02:40
    Track
    15
    Title
    Captain Stratton's Fancy
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Ivor Gurney
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  16. 16 Songs of Travel: No. 1. The Vagabond 03:10
    Track
    16
    Title
    Songs of Travel: No. 1. The Vagabond
    Duration
    03:10
    Composer
    Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  17. 17 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1. Weep You No More 02:05
    Track
    17
    Title
    7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1. Weep You No More
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Roger Quilter
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  18. 18 Jillian of Berry 00:39
    Track
    18
    Title
    Jillian of Berry
    Duration
    00:39
    Composer
    Peter Warlock
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  19. 19 7 Poems of James Joyce: No. 4. The Pleasant Valley 01:25
    Track
    19
    Title
    7 Poems of James Joyce: No. 4. The Pleasant Valley
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Ernest John Moeran
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  20. 20 Flying Crooked, Op. 28, No. 1 01:10
    Track
    20
    Title
    Flying Crooked, Op. 28, No. 1
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Ian Venables
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  21. 21 Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, "British Isles": No. 1. The Salley Gardens 02:42
    Track
    21
    Title
    Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, "British Isles": No. 1. The Salley Gardens
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  22. 22 Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 1. The Plough Boy 02:05
    Track
    22
    Title
    Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 1. The Plough Boy
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  23. 23 No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death 03:40
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  24. 24 No. 2. Who is Silvia? 01:33
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 2. Who is Silvia?
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  25. 25 No. 3. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun 05:09
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 3. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  26. 26 No. 4. O Mistress Mine 02:00
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 4. O Mistress Mine
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  27. 27 No. 5. It was a Lover and his Lass 02:37
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 5. It was a Lover and his Lass
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Gerald Finzi
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
  28. 28 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4. Sleep 03:08
    Track
    28
    Title
    5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4. Sleep
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Ivor Gurney
    Performer
    Roderick Williams, Susie Allan