Composer: Ernest Farrar, Michael Dewar Head, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock
Performer: Ossian Huskinson, Matthew Fletcher
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD707
Release: 2022
Size: 598 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Warlock: My Own Country
02. Head: A Vagabond Song
03. Head: Sweet chance
04. Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
05. I. The Vagabond
06. II. Let Beauty Awake
07. III. The Roadside Fire
08. IV. Youth and Love
09. V. In Dreams
10. VI. The Infinite Shining Heavens
11. VII. Whither Must I Wander
12. VIII. Bright is the Ring of Words
13. IX. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Farrar: Vagabond Songs, Op 10
14. No. 1, The Wanderer’s Song
15. No. 2, Silent Noon
16. No. 3, The Roadside Fire
As a recipient of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Scholarships scheme, British bass-baritone Ossian Huskinson explores the powerfully appealing archetype of the vagabond in its various iterations across English Song. Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel forms an ideal starting point, containing the complete cycle of a hero’s journey: the adventure, the highs and lows, and the return home as a changed person. Inspired by the same vagabond theme, a younger generation has perpetuated the tradition; Ossian interprets songs by Farrar, Warlock and Head.
In 2022, four exceptional recipients of the Academy’s 2020/21 Bicentenary Scholarships scheme – Julie Park, Camilla Harris, Ossian Huskinson and Charlie Lovell-Jones – will each release a new album to coincide with the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary celebrations