Composer: Gustav Theodore Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Robert Irwin, Stuart Robertson, Edgar Coyle, Peter Dawson, Gerald Moore, Black Dyke Mills Band, BBC Chorus, Band of HM Grenadier Guards
Conductor: Rae Jenkins, Leslie Woodgate, Julius Harrison
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Albion
Catalogue: ALBCD027
Release: 2016
Size: 161 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
01. No. 1. The Vagabond
02. No. 3. The Roadside Fire
03. No. 8. Bright Is the Ring of Words
Vaughan Williams: The House of Life
04. No. 2. Silent Noon
05. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
06. Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
07. Vaughan Williams: Sea Songs
08. Vaughan Williams: For all the saints (Sine nomine)
Vaughan Williams: Five English Folksongs
09. No. 5. Wassail song
Holst: 6 Songs, Op. 16
10. No. 4. Lovely kind and kindly loving
Holst: This have I done for my true love, H128, Op. 34
11. No. 1
Holst: 3 Festival Choruses, Op. 36a
12. No. 2. Turn Back, O Man
13. Holst: Suite No. 1 for Military Band in E flat major, Op. 28 No. 1, H105
14. Holst: A Moorside Suite
Holst: Two Songs without Words, Op. 22
15. No. 2. Marching Song
16. Holst: Wassail Song
The recordings included on this album are mainly taken from the collection of David Michell.
David was born in 1929 in Beckenham, South London, and began his passion for collecting 78s in his very early years. He was educated at Gresham School and went into a career in the railways. Retirement provided the opportunity to search for rare gramophone records with even more determination. By 2015, he had collected many thousands of discs. His records have been much sought after for reissue and Albion Records is deeply grateful to him for his support and encouragement.
David plays his beloved 78s on an enormous EMG horn gramophone which reproduces even the earliest of his discs with remarkable clarity and warmth.