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English Love: Songs of Passion, Pain & Pleasure / / Mark Stone, baritone; Stephen Barlow, piano

1 CD / Stone Records / 2011-08-09

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Love bade me welcome, song for baritone, chorus (ad lib.) orchestra (Mystical Songs no 3); John Dowland: Awake sweet love, P 92; Come Again; Roger Quilter: Go, ...
Performers: Barlow, Stephen; Stone, Mark [Baritone Vocal]

Featuring the world premiere recording of Stephen Barlow's "If thou would'st ease thine heart," this disc includes 25 beautiful English love songs superbly performed by...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK (11/11/2008-11/13/2008)....continue...

Earth and Air and Rain - Songs by Gerald Finzi

2 CD / Hyperion / 2009-08-11

Works: Gerald Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15; Till Earth Outwears, song cycle for soprano (or tenor) & piano, Op. 19; I Said to Love for baritone & piano, Op 19b; A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14; B...
Performers: Benson, Clifford; Hill, Martyn; Varcoe, Stephen [Baritone Vocals]

"This welcome reissue of Hyperion's 1990 recording (66161) presents 43 of Finzi's 50 Hardy settings. Martyn Hill and Stephen Varcoe both have glowing light lyric...continue...

Finzi: Before & After Summer, Till Earth Outwears, etc

2 CD / Lyrita / 2008-02-12

Works: Gerald Finzi: Before and after the Summer for baritone & piano, Op 16; Till Earth Outwears, song cycle for soprano (or tenor) & piano, Op. 19; I Said to Love for baritone & piano, Op 19b; A Young Man...
Performers: Case, John Carol; Ferguson, Howard; Jenkins, Neil; Tear, Robert

"I do hate the bilge and bunkum about composers trying to 'add' to a poem - that a fine poem is complete in itself, and...continue...

English Song Series 12 - Finzi / Williams, Burnside

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-05-17

Works: Gerald Finzi: I Said to Love for baritone & piano, Op 19b; Let Us Garlands Bring, song cycle for voice & piano (or string orchestra), Op. 18; Before and after the Summer for baritone & piano, Op 16
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]

"...I haven't encountered [Roderick Wiliams'] work before, but if this is representative, I'll gladly seek him out again. The voice is a rich, darker than...continue...