Composer: Elizabeth Maconchy, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: James Geer, Ronald Woodley
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Resonus Classics
Catalogue: RES10317
Release: 2023
Size: 1.28 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vaughan Williams: Four Last Songs
01. I. Procris
02. II. Tired
03. III. Hands, Eyes, and Heart
04. IV. Menelaus
05. Maconchy: The Exequy
Maconchy: The Garland
06. I. The Garland
07. II. Old and Young
08. III. I Would I Were a Mirror
09. IV. No End to Love
10. Maconchy: Sailor’s Song of the Two Balconies
11. Maconchy: The Disillusion
12. Maconchy: The Swallow
13. Maconchy: The Poet-Wooer
14. Maconchy: Sleep Brings No Joy To Me
15. Maconchy: In Fountain Court
Vaughan Williams: The House of Life
16. I. Love-Sight
17. II. Silent Noon
18. III. Love’s Minstrels
19. IV. Heart’s Haven
20. V. Death in Love
21. VI. Love’s Last Gift
22. Maconchy: How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza
This second of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth presents a further two major song collections by the composer, while bringing to light another selection of songs by his student Elizabeth Maconchy.
Maconchy’s works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composer’s career from the time of her studies with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 through 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.