Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Vol. 1

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Label
Resonus Classics
Release Date
March 31, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Elizabeth Maconchy, Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • PERFORMER
      James Geer, Ronald Woodley
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 31, 2023
    • UPC
      5060262793275
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RES10299
    • LABEL
      Resonus Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. The Vagabond

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    2. No. 2. Let Beauty Awake

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    3. No. 3. The Roadside Fire

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    4. No. 4. Youth and Love

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    5. No. 5. In Dreams

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    6. No. 6. The Infinite Shining Heavens

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    7. No. 7. Whither Must I Wander?

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    8. No. 8. Bright Is the Ring of Words

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    9. No. 9. I Have Trod the Upward and Downward Slope

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    10. Love Stood at My Door

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    11. The Bee-Sting

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    12. The Woodspurge

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    13. The Cloths of Heaven

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    14. The Thrush

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    15. Impetuous Heart, Be Still

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    16. No. 1. Motion and Stillness

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    17. No. 2. Four Nights

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    18. No. 3. The New Ghost

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    19. No. 4. The Water Mill

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley

    20. Faustus

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley


The first of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams's birth presents two of his major song collections, while bringing to light a substantial number of songs by the composer's student Elizabeth Maconchy. Her works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their original first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composer's career from the time of her studies with Vaughan Williams in the mid-1920s though to her committed espousal of the British modernist aesthetic by the 1960s and 70s. The songs are performed by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley in this continuation of their long-standing partnership.