PRESIDENT: SIR ANDREW DAVIS CBE
Kissing Her Hair
Twenty early songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams
The twenty songs on this CD were composed over 30 years and demonstrate in the early songs of 1895 and 1896 a remarkable assurance. They show that Vaughan Williams was aware of the beauty and musical quality of lyric poetry in his early twenties and had the technical ability to successfully match words to music.
CRITICAL REVIEWS
Gramophone
September 2008
…a real discovery … heard in full mastery…
Rob Barnett
Musicweb International
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- To Daffodils (Baritone)
- Rondel (Baritone)
- How Can the Tree But Wither (Baritone)
- Claribel (Tenor)
- Linden Lea (Baritone)
- Blackmwore by the Stour (Baritone)
- Boy Johnny (Baritone)
- If I Were a Queen (Soprano and Tenor)
- Tears, Idle Tears (Baritone)
- Orpheus With His Lute (Soprano)
- When I Am Dead, My Dearest (Soprano)
- The Winter’s Willow (Baritone)
- Chanson de Quête (Baritone)
- La Ballade de Jésus Christ (Baritone)
- The Splendour Falls (Baritone)
- Dreamland (Soprano)
- The Sky Above the Roof (Baritone)
- Nocturne (baritone)
- A Clear Midnight (baritone)
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (baritone)
Sarah Fox Soprano
Andrew Staples Tenor
Roderick Williams Baritone
Iain Burnside Piano
Catalogue Number: ALBCD002
Release Date: 18 February 2008
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