Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Sarah Fox, Andrew Staples, Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Albion
Catalogue: ALB002
Release: 2009
Size: 178 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. To Daffodils
02. Rondel
03. How Can the Tree but Wither?
04. Claribel
05. Linden Lea
06. Blackmwore by the Stour
07. Boy Johnny
08. If I Were a Queen
09. Tears, Idle Tears
10. Orpheus with His Lute
11. When I Am Dead, My Dearest
12. The Winter’s Willow
13. Chanson de quête
14. La ballade de Jésus Christ
15. The Splendour Falls
16. Dreamland
17. The Sky Above the Roof
3 Poems by Walt Whitman
18. No. 1, Nocturne
19. No. 2, A Clear Midnight
20. No. 3, Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
This is the second disc from Albion Records which is part of the Vaughan Williams Society.
Albion Records Ltd, a not-for-profit record label, is dedicated to recording rare 20th century English classical music, concentrating on Ralph Vaughan Williams. The label is a subsidiary of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and each of the CDs will contain world première recordings.
The disc again boasts the talents of Iain Burnside, Roderick Williams, Sarah Fox and Andrew Staples.
This second disc Kissing Her Hair, is a collection of early Vaughan Williams songs. One, Rondel, from which the title is gained, is unpublished and unrecorded; it is serenely beautiful and is as it was written when the composer was only 22. It will change perceptions of the quality of music Vaughan Williams was composing at this early age. This CD was released to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer. The picture on the cover is that of Ralph Vaughan William’s first wife Adeline