Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland

Boyle, Ina, Bruch, Max, Butterworth, George, Cattley, Sarah, Clarke, Rebecca, Dring, Madeleine, Finzi, Gerald, Gipps, Ruth, Gurney, Ivor, Holst, Gustav, Howells, Herbert, Maconchy, Elizabeth, Ravel, Maurice, różni kompozytorzy, Stanford, Charles Villiers, Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Williams, Grace, Williams, Roderick, Wood, Charles

Allan, Susie, Williams, Roderick

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

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.

Works:

•Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Splendour Falls
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
• The Call;
• A Clear Midnight
• The Twilight People
• When Icicles Hang by the Wall
• I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
• Menelaus
• Charles Wood: Fortune and her Wheel
• Maurice Ravel: Chanson ecossaise
• Max Bruch: O Saw Ye My Father
• Rebecca Clarke: Down by the Salley Gardens
• Grace Williams: Jim Cro
• George Butterworth: Roving in the Dew
• Gustav Holst: Darest Thou Now O Soul
• Ina Boyle: The Last Invocation
• Ivor Gurney: Reconciliation
• Charles Villiers Stanford: Joy, Shipmate, Joy
• Ruth Gipps: The Pulley
• Herbert Howells: The Sorrow of Love
• Elizabeth Maconchy: The Wind and the Rain
• Hubert Parry: Under the Greenwood Tree
• Madeleine Dring: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
• Gerald Finzi: Who is Silvia
• Sarah Cattley: A Square and Candlelighted Boat
• Roderick Williams: The Shepherd

CD x 1

SOMM Recordings

5.03.2024

0748871068322