Nicky Spence, Julius Drake - Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & Other Songs (2022)
Nicky Spence, Julius Drake - Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & Other Songs (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68378 | Recorded: 2020
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 281 Mb | Total time: 69:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68378 | Recorded: 2020
The song cycles of Ralph Vaughan Williams recorded here, some of them including instruments other than the piano, are some of his most characteristic early works. One hears both his growing interest in folk song and his indebtedness to Ravel, put together with a piquant kind of youthful ambition. In the opening Four Hymns for tenor, piano, and viola, the generally agnostic or atheist Vaughan Williams composed some lovely examples in the rare genre of religious art song. The only really well-known set here is 1909's On Wenlock Edge, and the Britishness of the whole project is shown by the fact that the annotator does not feel it necessary to name the author of the texts. It is A.E. Housman, whose faux-simple verses are ideally suited to the natural voice of tenor Nicky Spence. The other song cycle is The House of Life (1903), to poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and here one senses most strongly, in the active piano parts and in other respects, the effects of Vaughan Williams' studies with Ravel. As an entr'acte, there are three delightful folk song settings, and Spence has a praiseworthy lack of affectation in these. The church sound is not right for these little works, but in general, this is an enjoyable RVW release with some songs that even the composer's enthusiasts may not know.–James Manheim
Performer:
Nicky Spence tenor
Julius Drake piano
Timothy Ridout viola (1-4)
Piatti Quartet (14-19)
Track List:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Four Hymns, for tenor, piano and viola
01. Lord! Come away!
02. Who is this fair one?
03. Come Love, come Lord
04. Evening Hymn
The house of Life, for tenor and piano
05. Love-sight
06. Silent noon
07. Love's minstrels
08. Heart's haven
09. Death in Love
10. Love's last gift
15 Folk songs from the Eastern Counties
11. No.10 The saucy bold robber
12. No.15 Harry the tailor
Six English folk songs
13. No.4 The brewer
On Wenlock Edge, for tenor, piano and string quartet
14. On Wenlock Edge
15. From far, from eve and morning
16. Is my team ploughing?
17. Oh, when l was in love with you
18. Bredon Hill
19. Clun
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Nicky Spence, Julius Drake - Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge & Other Songs (2022)
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