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Whither Must I Wander? English Songs by Vaughan Williams, Finzi and Quilter / David John Pike, baritone; Isabelle Trub, piano

1 CD / Signum UK / 2013-01-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra); I got me flowers, song for baritone, chorus (ad lib.) orchestra (Mystical Songs no 2); Love bade me welcome, song...
Performers: Pike, David John; Trub, Isabelle

Centered around Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel, this collection of English song brings together three now influential figures in the world of British music -...continue...
Recording information: Centre ArcA, Bertrange, Luxembourg (01/2011); Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg (01/2011); Centre ArcA, Bertrange, Luxembourg (04/2012); Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxem...continue...

Silent Noon - a collection of British songs by Britten, Quilter, Purcell, Vaughan Williams et al. / Operababes, Janet Haney, piano

1 CD / Warner Classics / 2012-06-26

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Roger Quilter: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; Drink to me only with thine eyes; John Ireland: If there were dreams to sell; Benjamin B...
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Ensemble: OperaBabes

In 2001, two opera singers were discovered busking in London's Covent Garden and almost overnight were thrust into the global media spotlight, releasing two albums,...continue...
Recording information: Potton Hall & Vega Music Studios (04/2011)....continue...

The Very Best of Kathleen Ferrier: Centenary Collection - Lieder and Folksongs

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-06-05

Works: Spoken Word: Interview with Kathleen Ferrier; English Traditional: Blow the Wind Southerly (Northumbrian Folk Song); The Keel Row, Northumbrian folk song; Ca' the yowes; Benjamin Britten: Come you no...
Performers: Newmark, John; Spurr, Phyllis; Stone, Frederick
Conductors: Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Boult, Adrian; Neel, Boyd; Walter, Bruno

Kathleen Ferrier: A Centenary Celebration [4 CDs]

4 CD / Regis Records / 2012-04-02

Works: Spoken Word: Interview with Kathleen Ferrier, Montreal 1950; English Traditional: Blow the Wind Southerly (Northumbrian Folk Song); The Keel Row, Northumbrian folk song; Down by the Salley Gardens, f...
Performers: Gilbert, Max; Newmark, John; Patzak, Julius; Spurr, Phyllis
Conductors: Krauss, Clemens; Walter, Bruno

'The greatest thing in music in my life has been to have known Kathleen Ferrier and Gustav Mahler - in that order" -Bruno Walter 'No...continue...

Kathleen Ferrier Centenary Edition: The Complete Decca Recordings

15 CD / Decca / 2012-03-20

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice; Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Vergiss mein nicht, vergiss mein nicht! BWV 505; Ach, dass nicht die letzte Stunde, BWV 439; Bist du...
Performers: Ayars, Ann; Britten, Benjamin; Curzon, Clifford; Dobson, Michael; Gal, Hans; Gauntlett, Ambrose; Gilbert, Max; Greene, Eric; Gunter, Horst; Lush, Ernest; McCallum, David; Newmark, John; Parsons, Will...
Conductors: Stiedry, Fritz; Jacques, Reginald; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Neel, (Louis) Boyd; Henderson, Roy; Barbirolli, John; Boult, Adrian; Krauss, Clemens; Klemperer, Otto; Beinum, Eduard Van; Walter, Bruno

She was an artist held in awe and affection by numerous colleagues and countless fans worldwide and her reputation is undiminished to this day. A...continue...

The Power of Love: An English Songbook / Alice Coote, Graham Johnson

1 CD / Hyperion / 2012-02-14

Works: James Lyman Molloy: Love's Old Sweet Song; Maude Valérie White: So We'll Go No More A-roving, for voice & piano; The Spring Has Come, for voice & piano; The Devout Lover, for voice & piano; Edwa...
Performers: Coote, Alice; Johnson, Graham [Piano]

Alice Coote, one of the most distinctive mezzo-sopranos of today, makes her recital debut on Hyperion with pianist Graham Johnson, a stalwart of the label...continue...
Recording information: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (2010-12-15&2010-12-15&2010-)....continue...

The Best of Yvonne Kenny

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2011-10-11

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka; Gypsy Songs, Op. 55; George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Messiah; Alcina; Richard Strauss: Lieder (4), Op. 27; Four Last Songs; Rudolf Sieczynski: Wien, du Stadt meiner Tr...
Performers: Almonte, Caroline; Chindamo, Joe; Kenny, Yvonne; Martineau, Malcolm; Sandilands, Ron; Vries, Doug de
Conductors: Kamirski, Wlodzimierz; Fritzsch, Johannes; Bonynge, Richard; Noble, Guy; Dyer, Paul

Down by the Salley Gardens: 19th & 20th Century English Songs / Bejun Mehta

1 CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2011-09-13

Works: Herbert Howells: King David for voice & piano; Songs, Op. 22; The Little Boy Lost, song; Roger Quilter: Shakespeare Songs (5), Op. 23; Come away death, for voice & piano, Op. 6/1; O mistress mine, fo...
Performers: Drake, Julius [Piano]; Mehta, Bejun [Countertenor Vocal]

Down by the Salley Gardens offers a vivid and varied cross-section of English song, ranging from the Edwardian aesthetic of Quilter and early Vaughan Williams...continue...
Recording information: Teldex Studio Berlin (09/2010)....continue...

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...

Shakespeare Inspired / Mezzo Michelle Breedt

1 CD / TwoPianists / 2011-05-31

Works: Edward Elgar: Pageant of Empire, songs (8) for voice (or chorus) & orchestra; Pleading, Op. 48; Thomas Arne: When Daisies pied and Violets blue, song; Mervyn Horder: When Daisies Pied, for voice & pi...
Performers: Breedt, Michelle; Schumann, Nina

South African-born Michelle Breedt, best known for her stellar performances of Wagner in particular, her versatility from the opera to the concert is remarkably captured...continue...
Recording information: Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University, South Africa (11/22/2010-11/28/2010)....continue...

Relaxing Classics: The Healing Power of the Voice

2 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2010-10-26

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus; Zaide; Henry Purcell: Oedipus; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147; Cantata no 208; Cantata no 170; Cantata BWV...
Performers: Anderson, Richard; Bradley, Jonathan; Campbell, Fiona; Greene, Andrew; Kenny, Yvonne; Kerrigan, Annalisa; Kimmorley, Sharolyn; Macliver, Sara; Martineau, Malcolm; McMahon, Paul; Montgomery, Belinda; ...
Conductors: Walker, Antony; Weymark, Brett; Noble, Guy; Kelly, Brett; Lang-Lessing, Sebastian; Stanhope, Paul; Milton, Nicholas; Chu, Philip;
Ensemble: ; Cantillation; Ensemble Battistin

20th Century Classics: Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-08-10

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Wasps; The lark ascending; Flos campi; Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus'; Norfolk Rhapsody no 1 in E mino...
Performers: Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Balmer, Christopher; Bowen, Kenneth; Burrowes, Norma; Case, John Carol; Chang, Sarah; Dickerson, Bernard; Evans, Wynford; Hayward, Marie; Keyte, Chr...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Handley, Vernon; Haitink, Bernard; Willcocks, David; Boult, Adrian;
Ensemble: ; London Early Music Group

An Anthology Of English Song

1 CD / Dal Segno / 2010-03-03

Works: Henry David Leslie: Annabelle Lee; Amy Woodeforde-Finden: Indian Love Lyrics (4); W.S. Gwynn Williams: My little Welsh Home, song; Carrie Jacobs-Bond: A perfect day; Roger Quilter: Now Sleeps the Cri...
Performers: Allen, Thomas; Burrows, Stuart; Herincx, Raimund; Jeffes, Peter; Masterson, Valerie; Rees, Jonathan; Walker, Sarah; White, Patricia

Recording information: The Henry Wood Hall (03/11/1989)....continue...

Oh Fair to See - Songs by English Composers / Donald Kaasch

1 CD / Globe / 2009-09-01

Works: Gerald Finzi: Till Earth Outwears, Op. 19; Oh fair to see, Op. 13; Ralph Vaughan Williams: House of life; Benjamin Britten: On this Island, Op. 11
Performers: Kaasch, Donald; Lockwood, Peter

Dreams and Fancies

1 CD / CRD Records / 2009-05-01

Works: John Ireland: If there were dreams to sell; Frederick Delius: Songs (7) from the Norwegian, for voice & piano, RT v/9; Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Silver, for voice & piano, Op. 30/2; Five Eyes, for voice...
Performers: Vignoles, Roger [Piano]; Walker, Sarah

Kathleen Ferrier [Box Set]

10 CD / Decca Import / 2008-11-04

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen, BWV 11 "Ascension Oratorio"; Vergiss mein nicht, vergiss mein nicht! BWV 505; Ac...
Performers: Ayars, Ann; Britten, Benjamin; Dobson, Michael; Gauntlett, Ambrose; Gilbert, Max; Greene, Eric; Lam, Basil; Lofthouse, Thornton; Lush, Ernest; McCallum, David; Newmark, John; Parsons, William; Peasgo...
Conductors: Stiedry, Fritz; Jacques, Reginald; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Neel, (Louis) Boyd; Henderson, Roy; Barbirolli, John; Walter, Bruno; Krauss, Clemens

Mystical Songs: Choral Music of Vaughan Williams

1 CD / ABC Classics Import / 2008-10-07

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: O clap your hands; O taste and see; Mystical Songs (5) for baritone, chorus ad lib & orchestra (or organ); Loch Lomond, folk song for baritone & male chorus; Folksongs from th...
Performers: Biber, Kristy; Bradley, Jonathan; Leighton-Jones, Michael; Reynolds, Timothy; Robinson, Julie; Stagg, Siobhan

The Choir of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, is renowned for its fine singing of music from the Anglican Cathedral tradition. This disc features the...continue...

The Essential Vaughan Williams / Willcocks, Boult, Bean, Barbirolli, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-06-24

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Linden Lea; Fantasia on Greensleeves; House of life; English Folk Song Suite; The Vagabond ("Give to me the life I love"), song for voice & piano (or orche...
Performers: Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Asch, David van; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bayl, Benjamin; Bean, Hugh; Bostridge, Ian; Bowen, Kenneth; Burrowes, Norma; Case, John C...
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Barbirolli, John; ; Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Bishop, Christopher; Neary, Martin; Moore, Philip; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; King's College Choir, Cambridge; London Music Group; London Symphony Orchestra; The Wallace Collection; Winchester Cathedral Choir; York Minster Choir

This essential collection presents 30 Vaughan Williams favorites on 2 CDs. It includes such classic recordings as 'The Lark Ascending' with Hugh Bean, the 'Tallis...continue...

The Best of Vaughan Williams

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-06-24

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Forty-Ninth Parallel; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Linden Lea; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); The wasps; House of life; Variants (5) of 'D...
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Greed, David; Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Maltman, Christopher; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Penny, Andrew; Judd, James; Bakels, Kees; Lloyd-Jones, David; Daniel, Paul
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Dublin RTE Concert Orchestra; English Northern Philharmonia; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

One of the leading English composers of his generation, Vaughan Williams went some way towards creating a specifically English musical idiom, influenced by his interest...continue...

The English Songbook / Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-03-04

Works: Charles Villiers Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci, ballad for voice & piano; Songs (50) of Old Ireland, for voice & piano, "My love's an arbutus"; Ivor Gurney: Elizabethan Songs (5) for voice & pia...
Performers: Bostridge, Ian; Drake, Julius [Piano]

"These 24 songs are, according to Bostridge, among 'the greatest and best-loved in the English tradition' and add up to a recital of infinite lyrical...continue...

Klever Kaff

1 CD / Regis Records / 2006-08-24

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo; George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint John Passion, BWV 245; Mass in B minor, BWV 232; Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op....
Performers: Dobson, Michael; Gauntlett, Ambrose; Spurr, Phyllis; Stone, Frederick; Walter, Bruno
Conductors: Stiedry, Fritz; Boult, Adrian; Walter, Bruno

English Song / Langridge, Lott, Keenleyside, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-03-22

Works: Charles Villiers Stanford: A Soft Day, for voice & piano; A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster, for voice & piano, no 6, "Irish Skies" Op. 140/6; Liza Lehmann: Cherry Ripe (arr. of aria by Chas. Ed. Horn);...
Performers: Asti, Eugene; Bedford, Steuart; Constable, John [Keyboards]; Davies, Neal [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Edgar-Wilson, Richard; Greevy, Bernadette [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Gritton, Susan; Hancock-Child, Nik; H...
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Ensemble: Duke Quartet

England boasts a long and distinctive tradition of song, equaled to that of any region in the world. This anthology offers a recent survey ranging...continue...

Rune of Hospitality - Rubbra, Vaughan Williams

1 CD / Deux Elles / 2004-05-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Last Songs (4) for voice & piano; Poems by Fredegond Shove (4), for voice & piano; House of life; Edmund Rubbra: Sonnets (2) by William Alabaster, Op. 87; Preludes (8) for pia...
Performers: Chambers, Mark; Dods, Alison; Mason, David; Page, David le

Bach: Mass in B minor; Brahms, etc / Kathleen Ferrier, etc

3 CD / Guild / 2004-01-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV 232; Spoken Word: Broadcast Commentary on Brahms; Kathleen Ferrier Gives Spoken Introduction to 1952 London Recital; Johannes Brahms: Serious Songs (4), Op...
Performers: Ludwig, Walther; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth; Vocals], Paul Schoffler [Baritone
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Gluck, Lully, Finzi, Britten, Warlock, et al / Janet Baker

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2003-05-20

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: O del mio dolce ardor; Jean-Baptiste Lully: Amadis, LWV 63; Benedetto Marcello: Il mio bel foco; Lennox Berkeley: Poems (5) of W. H. Auden, for high voice & piano, Op. 53; ...
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Parsons, Geoffrey

"There can be no more golden a legend than Janet Baker singing English song; and this latest BBC Legend - a live recital from the...continue...

The English Song Series 3 - Vaughan Williams

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-02-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: It Was a Lover and His Lass, partsong for female chorus; The Lawyer, folk song for voice & violin (English Folksongs for voice & violin no 2); The Splendour Falls, song for vo...
Performers: Fuller, Louisa; Johnson, Graham [Piano]; Keenlyside, Simon; Metcalfe, John; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]

"Safely stowed, another derelict from the Collins English song series comes aboard the well-stocked Naxos vessel, bound, we'll hope, for along and prosperous voyage. It...continue...

Twenty-Four Aspects of an Amourous Nature / Jeffes, Woodcock

1 CD / Symposium / 1995-06-01

Works: John Ireland: The Salley Gardens, for voice & piano (from "Songs Sacred and Profane"); The sacred flame, for voice & piano; Frank Bridge: Isobel, for voice & piano, H. 102; Love went a-riding, for vo...
Performers: Jeffes, Peter; Woodcock, David

Vaughan Williams: World Of Vaughan Williams

1 CD / Decca Import / 1990-10-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Linden Lea; House of life; The Vagabond ("Give to me the life I love"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra) (Songs of Travel; The lark ascending; S...
Performers: Alan, Hervey; Brown, Iona; Flood, David; Tear, Robert
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Fiedler, Arthur; Wicks, Allan
Ensemble: ; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble