Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Resonus Classics
Catalogue: RES10299
Release: 2022
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
01. I. The Vagabond
02. II. Let Beauty Awake
03. III. The Roadside Fire
04. IV. Youth and Love
05. V. In Dreams
06. VI. The Infinite Shining Heavens
07. VII. Whither Must I Wander?
08. VIII. Bright is the Ring of Words
09. VIII. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
10. Maconchy: Love Stood At My Door
11. Maconchy: The Bee-Sting
12. Vaughan Williams: The Woodspurge
13. Maconchy: The Cloths of Heaven
14. Maconchy: The Thrush
15. Maconchy: Impetuous Heart, Be Still
Vaughan Williams: Four Poems by Fredegond Shove
16. I. Motion and Stillness
17. II. Four Nights
18. III. The New Ghost
19. IV. The Water Mill
20. Maconchy: Faustus
The first of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth presents two of his major song collections, while bringing to light a substantial number of songs by the composer’s student Elizabeth Maconchy. Her works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their original first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composer’s career from the time of her studies with Vaughan Williams in the mid-1920s though to her committed espousal of the British modernist aesthetic by the 1960s and 70s. The songs are performed by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley in this continuation of their long-standing partnership.