Roderick Williams, Susie Allan - Celebrating English Song (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 1, Loveliest of Trees
02. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 2, When I Was One-and-twenty
03. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 3, Look Not in My Eyes
04. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 4, Think No. More, Lad
05. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 5, The Lads in Their Hundreds
06. 6 Songs from a Shropshire Lad: No. 6, Is My Team Ploughing?
07. Great Things
08. Sea Fever
09. We'll to the Woods No. More: No. 2, In Boyhood
10. Marigold: No. 1, Youth's Spring-Tribute
11. A Kiss, Op. 15
12. The House of Life: No. 2, Silent Noon
13. Black Stitchel
14. Lights Out: No. 4, Lights Out
15. Captain Stratton's Fancy
16. Songs of Travel: No. 1, The Vagabond
17. 7 Elizabethan Lyrics, Op. 12: No. 1, Weep You No. More
18. Jillian of Berry
19. 7 Poems of James Joyce: No. 4, The Pleasant Valley
20. 2 Songs, Op. 28: No. 1, Flying Crooked
21. Folk Song Arrangements: The Salley Gardens (Vol. 1, No. 1)
22. Folk Song Arrangements: The Plough Boy (Vol. 3, No. 1)
23. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 1, Come Away, Come Away, Death
24. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 2, Who is Silvia?
25. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 3, Fear No. More the Heat o' the Sun
26. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 4, O Mistress Mine
27. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: No. 5, It Was a Lover and His Lass
28. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 4, Sleep



This wonderful Celebration of English Song was recorded especially for SOMM by baritone Roderick Williams deliciously partnered here by Susie Allan in a collection to gladden the hearts of all lovers of English music. SOMM is grateful to Jennie McGregor-Smith, the founder and driving force behind Celebrating English Song, the famous song series which took place at Tardebigge, Bromsgrove each summer for many years and which played an invaluable role in popularising English song. Sadly, the series closed down last June with a last recital given to a standing ovation by Roderick and Susie. The CD duplicates exactly that last programme of Roddy and Susie's Favourite Songs. It also pays a poignant tribute to some of our greatest composers of English art-song.

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