Vaughan Williams: Songs (Incls 'On Wenlock Edge' for tenor, piano & string quartet / 10 Blake Songs)

 
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Songs (Incls 'On Wenlock Edge' for tenor, piano & string quartet / 10 Blake Songs)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / The Nash Ensemble

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 September 2000

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1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950)

'John Mark Ainsley's performance is among his best on record in these austerely beautiful, imaginatively scored settings' - Gramophone

Tracks:

MERCILESS BEAUTY
Your eyën two [2'35]
So hath your beauty [2'35]
Since I from love [1'12]

TWO ENGLISH FOLKSONGS
Searching for lambs [2'40]
The Lawyer [1'42]

TEN BLAKE SONGS
Infant Joy [1'21]
A Poison Tree [2'18]
The Piper [2'04]
London [1'48]
The Lamb [2'40]
The Shepherd [0'59]
Ah, Sun-flower [1'23]
Cruelty has a human heart [1'50]
The Divine Image [2'14]
Eternity [1'36]

ALONG THE FIELD
We'll to the woods no more [1'31]
Along the field [2'55]
The half-moon westers low [1'31]
In the morning [1'04]
The sigh that heaves the grasses [2'12]
Good-bye [2'07]
Fancy's Knell [3'13]
With rue my heart is laden [1'26]

ON WENLOCK EDGE
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble [3'36]
From far, from eve and morning [2'12]
Is my team ploughing? [3'48]
Oh, when I was in love with you [0'36]
Bredon Hill [7'36]
Clun [3'42]