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Vaughan Williams, Rolfe, Johnson
English Song Series 3
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. It Was A Lover And His Lass
2. The Lawyer
3. The Splendour Falls
4. The Water Mill
5. Tired
6. Silent Noon
7. Searching For Lambs
8. Nocturne
9. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!
10. Lord, Come Away
11. Come Love, Come Lord
12. Five Mystical Songs: I. Easter
13. Five Mystical Songs: II. I Got Me Flowers
14. Five Mystical Songs: III. Love Bade Me Welcome
15. Five Mystical Songs: IV. The Call
16. Five Mystical Songs: V. Antiphon
17. On Wenlock Edge: I. On Wenlock Edge
18. On Wenlock Edge: II. From Far, From Eve And Morning
19. On Wenlock Edge: III. Is My Team Ploughing?
20. On Wenlock Edge: IV. Oh, When I Was In Love With You
21. On Wenlock Edge: V. Bredon Hall
22. On Wenlock Edge: VI. Clun
23. Dirge For Fidele

CD Details

All Artists: Vaughan Williams, Rolfe, Johnson, Duke Quartet
Title: English Song Series 3
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Naxos
Original Release Date: 1/1/2003
Re-Release Date: 2/18/2003
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 747313211425

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CD Reviews

Wonderful performances of stirring music

Gontroppo | Bathurst, NSW Australia | 04/27/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD contains some of Vaughan Williams' best vocal music. The singers are superb and the accompanist is sensitive.I love the whole CD, but adore
Searching For Lambs, which is a touching love song, set for violin and tenor duet
Silent Noon
It Was A Lover and His Lass
Antiphon, the last song in the set of Five Mystical Songs. It is a great song of faith, set by an infamous agnostic. The Church would be the poorer without Vaughan Williams wonderful hymns and arrangements of hymns. [I also recommend Vaughan Williams' Hymnal and Pilgrm's Progress.].I bought this set to hear On Wenlock Edge and am not disappointed. It is a great song cycle.By the way, this bargain-priced CD includes all the song texts.One of my favourite vocal CDs. Highly recommended."

A satisfying bouquet of RVW's songs rescued from the archive

Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 10/26/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Naxos bought up a defunct British record label, Collins Classics, which issued this song recital in 1996. Two major works -- "On Wenlock Edge" and "Five Mystical Songs" -- are filled out with various individual songs, some of them folksong arrangements. The program is mostly thrice-familiar to English music lovers, but Americans may need to be in a comfy, treacle-pudding-and-Guinness mood, snuggled in an old armchair. Which is to say, this music dwells a lot on reverie and local color.

Rolfe-Johnson's tenor can turn frail and reedy under pressure, but the young Simon Keenlyside was on the verge of a major international career thanks to his solid, forthright baritone -- he's a trifle less artistic than Rolfe-Johnson but more dashing. My only complaint is that Graham Johnson provides very dull accompaniments; there were many moments when I wanted to kick him along. I should also mention that the "Five Mystical Songs" are more effective in their more often encountered orchestral arrangement with chorus."