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~ Amy Woodforde-Finden (Composer), Annie Fortescue Harrison (Composer), Caroline Norton (Composer), Elisabeth Lutyens (Composer), Elizabeth Maconchy (Composer), et al.
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  • Composer: Amy Woodforde-Finden, Annie Fortescue Harrison, Caroline Norton, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, et al.
  • Audio CD (21 May 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Hyperion
  • ASIN: B00026W65Y
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 146,159 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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On this CD:
  1. My Mother
    Composed by Miss L. H. of Liverpool
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  2. Juanita
    Composed by Caroline Norton
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  3. Orpheus
    Composed by Virginia Gabriel
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  4. In the gloaming
    Composed by Annie Fortescue Harrison
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  5. (The) Throstle
    Composed by Maude Valerie White
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  6. My soul is an enchanted boat
    Composed by Maude Valerie White
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  7. (The) Devout Lover
    Composed by Maude Valerie White
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  8. So we'll go no more a-roving
    Composed by Maude Valerie White
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  9. Slave Song
    Composed by Teresa Del Riego
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  10. Thoughts have wings
    Composed by Liza Lehmann
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  11. Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral
    Composed by Liza Lehmann
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  12. Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral
    Composed by Liza Lehmann
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  13. (4) Indian Love Lyrics
    Composed by Amy Woodforde-Finden
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  14. (4) Indian Love Lyrics
    Composed by Amy Woodforde-Finden
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  15. (3) Songs
    Composed by Dame Ethel Smyth
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  16. (A) widow bird sate mourning
    Composed by Liza Lehmann
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  17. Ah, moon of my delight
    Composed by Liza Lehmann
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  18. (The) Lily of a Day
    Composed by Liza Lehmann
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  19. (The) Aspidistra
    Composed by Rebecca Clarke
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  20. Shy one
    Composed by Rebecca Clarke
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  21. In Praise of Woman
    Composed by Elizabeth Poston
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  22. As I walked out one evening
    Composed by Elisabeth Lutyens
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  23. Have you seen but a bright lily grow
    Composed by Elizabeth Maconchy
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  24. Meditation for his Mistress
    Composed by Elizabeth Maconchy
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  25. Crabbed age and youth
    Composed by Madeleine Dring
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  26. Dedications
    Composed by Madeleine Dring
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

  27. Epitaph
    Composed by Phyllis Tate
    with Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Graham Johnson

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply astonishing, 26 Feb 2006
By Dr. Kenneth W. Douglas "drkennydouglas" (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
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Whatever you do, don't miss out on this mid-price re-issue on Hyperion's "budget" Helios label. As well as being a moving and revelatory historical document, it is a collection of some of the finest art songs written in Britain over the past 150 years. The fact that all of them were written by female composers gives the disc a fascinating feminist subtext, making it quietly subversive in its own way: why isn't this music better known? Added to all of that, Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Graham Johnson put their heart and soul into these performances, along with their usual impeccable technique.

Graham Johnson's programme notes are fascinating as always, with some interesting thoughts as to why female composers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century turned so much of their attention to songs with piano rather than larger-scale instrumental works (a combination of financial necessity with the difficulty in access for women of this era to the specialist education required for orchestral composition).

The songs themselves are notable both for their variety and their astonishingly high quality for largely unknown repertory: everything from the touching simplicity of 18th-century Miss LH of Liverpool's "My Mother" through to Phyllis Tate's sombre and thoroughly modern "Epitaph". Highlights along the way include Maude Valerie White's complex yet ethereal "My Soul is an Enchanted Boat", Teresa De Riego's haunting "Slave Song", six very varied but consistently masterly songs by Liza Lehmann, and two delightfully humorous recent songs by Madeleine Dring. There is also the wonderfully tongue-in-cheek title song, "In Praise of Woman" by Elizabeth Poston; and what for me is the absolute highlight, Elisabeth Lutyen's darkly moving setting of W.H. Auden's great poem "As I walked out one evening" (which makes very telling use of a Schubertian major-minor ambiguity in an entirely late-twentieth-century manner).

Re-issued for under seven quid, this disc is required listening for anyone with an interest in lieder or in British music, as well as being a remarkable testament to the untold historical experience of female composers.

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