Vocal Collection - Anthology of English Song (Gurney, Ireland, Finzi etc) / Janet Baker

RRC 1265

Vocal Collection

Anthology of English Song (Gurney, Ireland, Finzi etc) / Janet Baker

Martin Isepp, piano

1 CD(s), ADD

Review:

"the great thing is that the records are back again, and 'glorious' is indeed the word, for both (ie also "Janet Baker sings Lieder" RRC 1225). The voice is absolutely radiant, the glow of youth upon it: firm, resonant, superbly controlled, and strikingly individual. The selection of songs could not be better; all are gems, especially the two by Howells, which are also two of the most inspired in performance. I found Ivor Gurney's I will go with my father a-ploughing almost unaccountably moving, and Dame Janet's singing of Finzi's Come away, death shows her already the mistress of the art of softening and colouring the voice to most lovely effect...Martin Isepp's playing is always sympathetic and particularly good in the Warlock songs. Balance favours the voice...but these are glorious discs"
(J.B. Steane, Gramophone)

Track Listing:

1. The Call (1911, from Five Mystical Songs) (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958)

2. Youth and Love (1904, Songs of Travel) (Vaughan Williams)

3. A Thanksgiving (1938) (John Ireland, 1879-1962)

4. Her Song (1925, Songs to Thomas Hardy Poems) (Ireland)

5. A Piper (1923) (Michael Dewar Head, 1900-76)

6. This is a Sacred City (By a Bierside) (1924) (Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, 1889-1960)

7. Love is a Sickness, Op.44/1 (1922) (Armstrong Gibbs)

8. The Cloths of Heaven, Op.30/3 (1916?) (Thomas Frederick Dunhill, 1877-1946)

9. Balulalow (Trad, 16th Cent. arr Peter Warlock) (1894-1930)

10. Youth (1928) (Peter Warlock)

11. King David (1921) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983)

12. Come Sing and Dance (1928) (Howells)

13. Sleep (from 5 Elizabethan Songs) (Ivor Gurney, 1890-1937)

14. I Will Go with My Father a-ploughing (Gurney)

15. To the Queen of heaven (Thomas Dunhill)

16. Come away, come away, death (from Let us garlands bring, Op.18, 1942)(Gerald Finzi, 1901-56):

17. It was a lover and his lass (from Let us garlands bring, Op.18, 1942)(Gerald Finzi, 1901-56):

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