Sarah Leonard - A Century of English Song, Vol. 2 (2014)

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Title: A Century of English Song, Vol. 2
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: SOMM Recordings
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 77:10 min
Total Size: 271 MB
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Tracklist:

1. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1. My heart is like a singing bird
2. English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 5. From a city window
3. No. 6. The Maiden
4. No. 5. Armida's garden
5. English Lyrics, Set 1: No. 1. My True Love Hath my Heart
6. English Lyrics, Set 1: No. 2. Good:night
7. English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 3. Crabbed age and youth
8. No. 1. Loveliest of trees
9. No. 2. When I was one:and-twenty
10. No. 3. There pass the careless people
11. No. 4. In summer-time on Bredon
12. No. 5. The street sounds to a soldier's tread
13. No. 6. On the idle hill of summer
14. No. 7. White in the moon the long road lies
15. No. 8. Think no more lad, laugh, be jolly
16. No. 9. Into my heart an air that kills
17. No. 10. The lads in their hundreds
18. Love in Springtime: Young Love Lies Sleeping
19. Shepherd's cradle song
20. Come to me in my dreams
21. A Fire of Turf, Op. 139: No. 6. The Fair
22. Songs of Faith, Op. 97: No. 4. To the Soul
23. The Calico Dress
24. No. 1. Corrymeela
25. No. 2. The Fairy Lough
26. No. 3. Cuttin' Rushes
27. No. 4. Johneen
28. No. 5. A Broken Song
29. No. 6. Back to Ireland


This CD is devoted to Parry, Somervell, and Stanford, three of the greatest songwriters of the Late-Victorian Renaissance. Parry is considered to be a very fine composer indeed, and this collection includes some of the best of his songs. The Stanford songs are, perhaps, better known, and Somervell’s setting of the Shropshire Lad cycle is more than just a minor masterpiece. A rare treat!

Sarah Leonard – Soprano
Paul Leonard – Baritone
Malcolm Martineau – Piano