Stanford: Children's Songs / Whately, Brynmor John, Allan

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
September 2, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Charles Villiers Stanford
    • PERFORMER
      Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 02, 2022
    • UPC
      748871065529
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0655
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Bed in Summer

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    2. No. 2. Pirate Story

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    3. No. 3. Foreign Lands

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    4. No. 4. Windy Nights

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    5. No. 5. Where Go the Boats?

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    6. No. 6. My Shadow

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    7. No. 7. Marching Song

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    8. No. 8. Foreign Children

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    9. No. 9. My Ship and Me

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    10. No. 1. Spring

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    11. No. 2. The Silence

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    12. No. 3. The City Child

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    13. No. 4. The Vision

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    14. No. 1. A Song of the Bow

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    15. No. 2. Drop Me a Flower

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    16. No. 3. The Winds of Bethlehem

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    17. No. 4. The Monkey's Carol

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    18. No. 5. Lullaby

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    19. No. 6. The Unknown Sea

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    20. No. 1. Two Little Stars

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    21. No. 2. The Pedlar

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    22. No. 3. Little Snowdrop (Spring)

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    23. No. 4. The Piper of the Spring

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    24. No. 5. Speedwell

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    25. No. 6. The Dream Ship

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    26. No. 1. Summer

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    27. No. 2. What Do You See?

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    28. No. 3. The Piper

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    29. No. 4. The Secret Place

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    30. No. 5. Night

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    31. No. 6. The Dust-Man

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    32. Witches' Charms

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    33. Summer's Rain and Winter's Snow

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    34. Fairy Lures

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    35. The Hoofs of the Horses

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan

    36. A Japanese Lullaby

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    37. Worship

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Kitty Whately, Susie Allan

    38. The King's Highway

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan


SOMM Recordings continues its widely acclaimed championing of the music of Charles Villiers Stanford with a captivating collection of his Children’s Songs by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and baritone Gareth Brynmor John, accompanied by pianist Susie Allan. Including numerous first recordings and the first complete album release of his setting of 14-year-old Helen Douglas Adam’s enchanting Songs from the Elfin Pedlar, it throws revealing new light on an important but largely overlooked aspect of Stanford’s output. Stanford, as his biographer and British music authority Jeremy Dibble comments in his authoritative notes, “was very much alive to the importance of children’s participation in music” following the transformative introduction of signing to the school curriculum in 1870. This delightful compendium of songs intended for children reveals the composer to be as acutely sensitive to his eclectic choice of texts as to his intended audience. It features premiere recordings of the early, Robert Louis Stevenson-set A Child’s Garland of Songs (Op.30), the mid-period Four Songs (Op.112) and later Six Songs (Op.175), together with seven other standalone songs, including the simple pastoral message of Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow and delightfully capricious Fairy Lures. SOMM’s previous Stanford recordings include his String Quintets (SOMMCD 0623) and complete String Quartets (SOMMCD 0160, 0185, 0607) with the Dante Quartet, praised by Gramophone for their “ardent, alert and thoroughly lived-in performances”, and Partsongs with the Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir led by Paul Spicer (SOMMCD 0128), which Limelight described as “excellent... beautifully sung”. SOMM’s world-premiere recording of The Travelling Companion (SOMMCD 274-2) was hailed “a landmark” by Gramophone, who lauded Songs of Faith, Love and Nonsense (SOMMCD 0627) as “a hugely enjoyable anthology... production values and presentation leave nothing to be desired”.