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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...

Welsh Male Voice Choir Tradition - Welsh and English Songs / Morriston Orpheus

1 CD / Musical Concepts / 2012-06-05

Works: Welsh Traditional: Land of My Fathers, song; Cadair Idris; Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night), folk song; Rhyfelgyrch Gwyr Harlech; Cyfri'r geifr (Counting the Goats), folk song; C.F. Chudleigh-Cha...
Conductors: Sims, Ivor E.

Songbook: The Trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum

1 CD / Delphian Records / 2012-01-10

Works: Roger Quilter: Music, When Soft Voices die for voice & piano, Op. 25/5; Love's Philosophy, for voice & piano, Op. 3/1; Arvo Pärt: Vater unser, for boy soprano or unison children's chorus & piano...
Performers: Etherington, Carleton; Nicholas, Benjamin
Conductors: Nicholas, Benjamin
Ensemble: Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum

This 'songbook' is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey - essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles. This is evident most...continue...
Recording information: Merton College Chapel, Oxford (07/05/2010-07/07/2010)....continue...

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...

The British Composers Guide to Britain

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-08-23

Works: Eric Coates: Knightsbridge March; London Suite; Edward Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town), concert overture, Op. 40; Severn Suite, Op. 87; Caractacus, Op. 35; Percy Grainger: Handel in the Strand; Bri...
Performers: Adni, Daniel [Piano]; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Barrueco, Manuel; Bayl, Benjamin; Bell, David [Organ]; Benson, Garth; Bostridge, Ian; Brannigan, Owen; Bullard, Thomas; Harvey, Frederi...
Conductors: Groves, Charles, Sir; Barbirolli, John; del Mar, Norman; Ord, Boris; Previn, Andre; Layton, Stephen; Cleobury, Stephen; Ledger, Philip, Sir; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Bishop, Christopher; Irving, Rober...
Ensemble: ; London Music Group; Polyphony (Vocal Ensemble)

This bright and breezy guide takes us in 50 stops from London, round Essex and East Anglia, up to Scotland, then - via Wales and...continue...

The Very Best of Janet Baker

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-07-26

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio; George Frederick Handel: Messiah; Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah; On Wings of Song; Johannes Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53; Gesänge (2) for Alto, Viola and ...
Performers: Aronowitz, Cecil; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Butt, John [Organ, Conductor]; Hugh, Timothy; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Parsons, Geoffrey; Previn, Andre...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Boult, Adrian; Barbirolli, John; Previn, Andre; Ledger, Philip, Sir
Ensemble: ; Academy Of St Martin In The Fields; Choir Of King's College, Cambridge; English Chamber Orchestra; Hallé Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

Vaughan Williams, Finzi: Songs and Elegies / Quink

1 CD / Challenge Classics / 2011-06-14

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Come Away Death, partsong for chorus; Ring Out Ye Bells, madrigal for chorus; Love Is a Sickness, song for chorus; Rest; The unquiet grave; Hearts Music, song for chorus; Lind...

The Quink Ensemble has been one of the top a cappella ensembles for the past three decades. Here, they present a wonderful CD that gives...continue...
Recording information: NH Church, Vreeland, The Netherlands (1987)....continue...

Early One Morning: Folksongs and Spirituals

1 CD / Apex / 2011-05-31

Works: English Traditional: Blow the Wind Southerly (Northumbrian Folk Song); Early One Morning, folk song; Down by the Salley Gardens, folk song; O No, John!, folk song; O Waly, Waly, folk song; Percy Grai...
Performers: Cave, Philip; Dougan, Eamonn; Hulett, Ben
Conductors: Higginbottom, Edward

Recording information: New College Chapel, Oxford, England (1997-01-??&1997-04-??&1997-).

This is the recorded equivalent of those huge, well-worn books of 'Music All the Whole World Loves' wit...continue...

Richard Baker's Favourite Songs And Encores

1 CD / Upbeat Classics Import / 2011-05-10

Works: Gertrude Sans-Souci: When Song is Sweet, for voice & piano; Franz Schubert: An Sylvia; Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D 300; Seligkeit, D 433; Jean-Paul-Gilles Martini: Plaisir d'amour, for voice &...

Ringing Clear, the art of Handbell Ringing

1 CD / Saydisc / 2011-01-11

Works: Leon Jessel: Parade der Zinnsoldaten, Op. 123; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea; Stephen Foster: Stephen Foster Treasury for brass; Henry Clay Work: Grandfather's Clock; Felix Mendelssohn: On Wings...

Vaughan Wiliams: Carols, Songs & Hymns

1 CD / Park Records (uk) / 2010-12-07

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Golden Carol ("Now is Christèmas y-come"), carol for chorus; Blake's Cradle Song ("Sweet dreams, form a shade o'er my lovely infant's head"), carol for chorus; Hodie;...
Performers: Banks, Steve; Davis, Jub; Lewin, Giles [Violin/Bagpipe]; Prior, Maddy; Prior, Maddy & The Carnival Band; Vitale, Steno; Watts, Andy

Recording information: Blue Moon Studios, Oxfordshire; The Steppings Cumbria....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...

Once Were Angels: The Tradition of Boy Trebles

1 CD / Griffin Records / 2010-06-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea; I got me flowers, song for baritone, chorus (ad lib.) orchestra (Mystical Songs no 2); British Isles Traditional: I Will Give My Love an Apple, folk song; Wolfgang...
Performers: Birch, John; Blaze, Robin; Bowyer, Jeremy; Brough, Andrew; Carroll, Dara; Criswell, Michael; Davey, Peter; Davis, James; Dutton, Paul; Ginn, Michael; Higginbottom, Edward; Hunt, Donald [Choral Conduc...

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...

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...

Serenade - Songs by Beethoven / David Daniels, Martin Katz

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, song Op. 46; Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531/Op. 7 no 3; Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D 774; Nacht und Träume, D 827; Adelaide, D 95; Antonio Cal...
Performers: Daniels, David; Katz, Martin

Vaughan Williams for Band

1 CD / Emblem Import / 2009-02-17

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Flourish for Wind Band, overture to a pageant for military band; Toccata marziale; English Folk Song Suite; Sea Songs; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The wasps; The Old Hundredth (...
Performers: Band Of The Grenadier Guards

Recording information: Angel Studios, Islington, London, England....continue...

Vaughan Williams - The Collector's Edition / Willcocks, Boult, Bean, Barbirolli, et al

30 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-07-08

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 1 "A sea symphony"; A London Symphony (Symphony no 2) (Original 1913 version); Symphony no 8 in D minor; Symphony no 3 for soprano or tenor & orchestra ("Pastoral"...
Performers: Adler, Larry; Allen, Thomas; Angas, Richard; Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]; Aronowitz, Cecil; Asch, David van; Bainbridge, Elisabeth; Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Balmain, Ian; Barlo...
Conductors: Handley, Vernon; Boult, Adrian; Silvestri, Constantin; Banks, Eric; Groves, Charles, Sir; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Barbirolli, John; Hickox, Richard; O'Brien, Brendan; Davies, Meredith; Willcocks, Davi...
Ensemble: ; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; King's College Choir, Cambridge; London Madrigal Singers; London Music Group; London Philharmonic Orch...

This 30-CD budget boxed set contains all of the hits, as well as other gems such as 'A Sea Symphony', 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols', 'On...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...

From the Heart

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2007-11-13

Works: David MacIntyre: Ave Maria, for chorus; Joseph Rheinberger: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (Psalm 84), Op. 35; Ron Jeffers: Missa Brevis in tempore violentiae; Anonymous: Flos Regalis, for 4 voice...
Performers: Hominick, Eric; Reinhardt, Lorraine

Composer's Collection - Vaughan Williams / Corporon, et al

2 CD / GIA Publications / 2007-04-10

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite; Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus'; Symphony no 8 in D minor; Flourish for Wind Band, overture to a pageant for military band; England's Pleasant Lan...
Performers: Clardy, Mary Karen
Conductors: Corporon, Eugene;
Ensemble: North Texas Wind Symphony; Showa Wind Symphony

"The performances are expert, and the sound-which ranges from single wind instrument solos to a fullband replete with thundering timpani and bass drum that can...continue...

The English Song Series 14 - Vaughan Williams

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-10-18

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra); The House of Life, song cycle for voice & piano; Linden Lea; Poems by Fredegond Shove (4), for voice & piano
Performers: Burnside, Iain [Piano]; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]

As in his Symphonies and large-scale choral works, the musical essence of Vaughan Williams can be heard in his songs, which demonstrate a peerless sensitivity...continue...

Silent Noon / Bryn Terfel, Malcolm Martineau

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2005-04-12

Works: Roger Quilter: Shakespeare Songs (3) for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 6; Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal for voice & piano, Op. 3/2; Elizabethan Lyrics (7) for voice & piano, Op. 12; Ivor Gurney: E...
Performers: Martineau, Malcolm; Terfel, Bryn

"The bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, with Malcolm Martineau a true partner at the piano, offers another program of English songs and is in glorious voice, his...continue...

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 Very Best of Janet Baker

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2002-04-09

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op. 70; On Wings of Song; Johannes Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53; Gesänge (2)...
Performers: Aronowitz, Cecil; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Butt, John [Organ, Conductor]; Hugh, Timothy; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Parsons, Geoffrey; Previn, Andre [Conductor/Piano]
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae; Boult, Adrian; Barbirolli, John; Previn, Andre; Ledger, Philip, Sir
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; English Chamber Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

"And it really is the very best. [Janet Baker's] early Schubert with Gerald Moore, together with the single example of her Mahler, reveal a deep...continue...

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, etc / Luxon, Willison

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-01-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra); Tired, song for voice & piano (Last Songs no 2); In the Spring ("My love is the maid"), song for voice & piano; L...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, 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