Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Performer: Joyful Company of Singers, Ørjan Hartveit, Alistair Young
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Albion
Catalogue: ALB006
Release: 2009
Size: 211 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. No Longer Mourn for Me (Sonnet 71)
02. Echo’s Lament for Narcissus
3 Elizabethan Part Songs
03. No. 1, Sweet Day
04. No. 2, The Willow Song
05. No. 3, O Mistress Mine
06.Come Away, Death
07. Linden Lea (Arr. A. Somervell)
08. Ring Out Your Bells
09. Rest
10. Fain Would I Change That Note
11. Alister McAlpine’s Lament
12. The Winter Is Gone
13. Mannin Veen
14. Our Love Goes Out to English Skies: March
15. Loch Lomond
16. The Mermaid
17. A Farmer’s Son So Sweet
18. The Turtle Dove
19. The New Commonwealth
Sun, Moon, Stars & Man
20. No. 1, Horses of the Sun
21. No. 2, The Rising of the Moon
22. No. 3, The Procession of the Stars
23. No. 4, The Songs of the Sons of Light
This is the fourth 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. These vocal works were composed from 1895 and 1954 showing Vaughan Williams lifelong affection for the human voice. Performed by the award winning Joyful Company of Singers, under Peter Broadbent, one of Europe’s leading Chamber Choirs. Recorded in the approximate order of composition this recording shows how much Vaughan Williams adapted his style over about sixty years.