Vaughan Williams - A Birthday Garland / Roderick Williams & Susie Allan

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SOMM Recordings
Release Date
March 29, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ina Boyle, Max Bruch, George Butterworth, Sarah Cattley, Rebecca Clarke, Madeleine Dring, Gerald Fin
    • PERFORMER
      Roderick Williams, Susie Allan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 29, 2024
    • UPC
      748871068322
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0683
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. The Splendour Falls

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    2. Fortune and Her Wheel

      Composer: Charles Wood

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    3. Linden Lea

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    4. Chanson ecossaise: Ye Banks and Braes O Bonnie Doon

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    5. 12 Schottische Volkslieder: No. 6. O sahst du den Vater? (O Saw Ye My Father?)

      Composer: Max Bruch

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    6. Down by the Salley Gardens

      Composer: Rebecca Clarke

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    7. 2 Welsh Folk Songs: No. 1. Jim Cro

      Composer: Grace Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    8. 11 Folk Songs from Sussex: No. 9. Roving in the dew

      Composer: George Butterworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    9. Darest Thou Now, O soul

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    10. A Last Invocation

      Composer: Ina Boyle

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    11. Reconciliation

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    12. 3 Poems by Walt Whitman: No. 2. A Clear Midnight

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    13. Songs of Faith, Op. 97: No. 6. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

      Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    14. 4 Baritone Songs, Op. 4b: No. 4. The Pulley

      Composer: Ruth Gipps

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    15. 5 Mystical Songs: No. 4. The Call (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    16. 2 Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan: No. 1. Twilight People

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    17. 5 Songs, Op. 2: No. 4. The Sorrow of Love

      Composer: Herbert Howells

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    18. 4 Shakespeare Songs: No. 2. The Wind and the Rain

      Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    19. English Lyrics, Set 6: No. 6. Under the Greenwood Tree

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    20. 7 Shakespeare Songs: No. 5. Take, O Take Those Lips Away

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    21. 3 Songs from Shakespeare: No. 2. When Icicles Hang by the Wall

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    22. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 2. Who is Silvia?

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    23. Songs of Travel: No. 9. I Have Trod the Upward and Downward Slope

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    24. 4 Last Songs: No. 4. Menelaus

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    25. No. 1. Bedroom Dawn

      Composer: Sarah Cattley

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    26. No. 2. The Coast: Norfolk

      Composer: Sarah Cattley

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    27. No. 3. Bicker's Cottage

      Composer: Sarah Cattley

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    28. No. 4. The Country Bedroom

      Composer: Sarah Cattley

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    29. No. 5. Waking in the Attic Bedroom

      Composer: Sarah Cattley

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan

    30. The Shepherd

      Composer: Roderick Williams

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Susie Allan


SOMM RECORDINGS is delighted to announce Vaughan Williams – A Birthday Garland, the debut on disc of baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan’s popular concert tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams originally marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth in 2022.

Curating a “fantasy birthday party concert” in tribute to “the grand-daddy of 20th-century English song”, Williams has assembled pieces by RVW and 18 fellow composers. The result is a wide-ranging celebration of the rich variety of English song over a century and more that pays tribute to Vaughan Williams’ influence with songs inspired by poets ranging from Shakespeare and Tennyson to W.B. Yeats and Walt Whitman.

First recordings include Herbert Howell’s The Sorrow of Love, a setting of the Irish poet Seamus O’Sullivan; Sarah Cattley’s A Square and Candle-lighted Boat, treating verses by RVW’s cousin, Frances Cornford; and Roderick Williams’ own distinctive take on William Blake’s The Shepherd.

The 30-song recital includes songs by RVW’s teachers (Stanford, Parry, Wood, Bruch, Ravel), friends (Holst, Gurney, Howells, Butterworth, Finzi and others), and pupils (Grace Williams, Ina Boyle, Ruth Gipps, Elizabeth Maconchy and Madeleine Dring). Vaughan Williams’ biographer Simon Heffer provides authoritative booklet notes.

SOMM’s previous Vaughan Williams releases include the widely acclaimed four-volume Vaughan Williams Live series (SOMM ARIADNE 5016, 5018, 5019-2, 5020); Mark Bebbington and Rebeca Omordia’s “compelling” (International Piano) survey of his Piano Music (SOMMCD 0164); and the “priceless document” (MusicWeb International) coupling the Fifth Symphony and Dona nobis pace (SOMMCD 071).

Roderick Williams and Susie Allan’s previous SOMM releases include Celebrating English Song (SOMMCD 0177), lauded by Gramophone as “a treat”; the Ivor Gurney-focused Severn & Somme (SOMM 057), “strongly recommended” by BBC Music Magazine; and Somervell’s A Shropshire Lad and Maud (SOMMCD 0615), “performances of much beauty, empathy and sensitivity” (British Music Society).