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The Sons of the Morning - Piano music of Vaughan Williams and Ivor Gurney / Iain Burnside, piano

1 CD / Albion / 2013-01-08

Works: Ivor Gurney: Five Preludes for piano; Chorale Prelude on Rockingham, for piano; Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lake in the Mountains, for piano (from the film score "The 49th Parallel"); Hymn tune Prelu...
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]

Albion Records presents the world première recording of Job - A Masque for Dancing in an arrangement for solo piano by Vally Lasker, written to...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk (01/18/2012-01/20/2012)....continue...

Vaughan Williams: Archive - 5 Tudor Portraits; On Wenlock Edge; Merciless Beauty. Bonus CD: Vaughan Williams talks about Bach

2 CD / Albion / 2012-07-10

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge, song cycle for tenor, piano & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra); Merciless beauty; Prelude on 3 Welsh Hymn Tunes, for brass band; Tudor Portraits (5), cho...
Performers: Anderson, Robert B.; Rankin, Nell; Watson, Gordon; Young, Alexander [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Adams, Bernard; Steinberg, William

Albion presents a special collection of archive recordings featuring the words and music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. On Wenlock Edge features tenor Alexander Young accompanied...continue...

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Garden of Proserpine; In The Fen Country; The Captain's Apprentice / Jane Irwin, Mary Brevan, Leigh Melrose

1 CD / Albion / 2011-08-09

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Garden of Prosperine, for soprano, chorus & orchestra; In the Fen Country; Folksongs from the Eastern Counties (15); Patrick Hadley: Fen and Flood, cantata for chorus & or...
Performers: Irwin, Jane; Melrose, Leigh; Vocal], Mary Bevan [Soprano
Conductors: Daniel, Paul
Ensemble: ; Joyful Company of Singers

Vaughan Williams completed The Garden of Proserpine, scored for soprano soloist, chorus and full orchestra, in 1899. For the twenty-something composer, it was a first...continue...
Recording information: The Lighthouse, Poole (09/27/2010-09/28/2010)....continue...

Vaughan Williams: Rare Songs from the Operas / Fox, Williams, et al

1 CD / Albion / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover; Sir John in Love; The Pilgrim's Progress
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Fox, Sarah; Pochin, Juliette; Staples, Andrew; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]

This is the first CD issued by Albion. 'The Sky Shall Be Our Roof' is comprised of 19 songs from Ralph Vaughan Williams operas. An...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Music in the Heart [Includes Bonus Disc]

2 CD / Albion / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to music; Pilgrim's Journey, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra (or organ; arr. from the opera "The Pilg; English Hymnal; Spoken Word: Vaughan Williams speaks a...
Performers: Allen, Stiles; Allin, Norman; Baillie, Isobel; Bove, Louis; Easton, Robert; Henderson, Roy; Herbert, William; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Manton, Stephen; Mitchell, Ena; Nash, Heddle [Tenor Vocals]...
Conductors: Vaughan Williams, Ralph; Pfohl, Henry

Music in the Heart features a rare recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams conducting his Serenade to Music from a performance in 1951, the Pilgrim's Journey...continue...

Kissing Her Hair: Twenty Early Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams

1 CD / Albion / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: To Daffodils, song for voice & piano; Rondel ("Kissing her hair I sat against her feet"), for alto or baritone & piano (incomplete); How Can the Tree but Wither?, song for voi...
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Fox, Sarah; Staples, Andrew; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]

Kissing Her Hair is a collection of early Vaughan Williams songs. One, "Rondel," from which the title is gained, is unpublished and this is its...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Westleton, Suffolk, UK / Henry Wood Hall, (03/2007/05/2007)....continue...

Vaughan Williams: Where Hope is Shining

1 CD / Albion / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sonnet 71 ("No longer mourn for me"), partsong for six voices (incomplete); Echo's Lament of Narcissus ("Slow, slow, fresh fount'), madrigal for double chorus (incomplete); El...
Performers: Hartveit, Orjan; Robson, Tom [Vocals]; Young, Alistair
Conductors: Broadbent, Peter

The choral works on Where Hope is Shining were composed from 1895 to 1954. Performed by the award winning Joyful Company of Singers and recorded...continue...
Recording information: St Paul's Church, New Southgate, London, England (03/29/2008-03/30/2008)....continue...

Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons

1 CD / Albion / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Songs of the Four Seasons, cantata for female chorus & orchestra; In Windsor Forest, cantata (adapted from the opera "Sir John in Love")
Conductors: Willcocks, David
Ensemble: Dmitri Ensemble

Both the Folk Songs of the Four Seasons and In Windsor Forest are world premiere recordings. Folk Songs of the Four Seasons is the most...continue...
Recording information: West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, England....continue...