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Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

~ Roderick Williams (Baritone), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Ian Burnside (Piano)

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Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Audio CD (3 Oct 2005)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Naxos
ASIN: B000B6N6A4
Other Editions: MP3 Download

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Song Title Artist Time Price

1. Songs of Travel: The Vagabond Iain Burnside 3:24 �0.69

2. Songs of Travel: Let Beauty awake Iain Burnside 1:55 �0.69

3. Songs of Travel: The Roadside Fire Iain Burnside 2:18 �0.69

4. Songs of Travel: Youth and Love Iain Burnside 3:32 �0.69

5. Songs of Travel: In Dreams Iain Burnside 2:19 �0.69

6. Songs of Travel: The Infinite Shining Heavens Iain Burnside 2:15 �0.69

7. Songs of Travel: Whither must I wander? Iain Burnside 4:12 �0.69

8. Songs of Travel: Bright is the ring of words Iain Burnside 2:10 �0.69

9. Songs of Travel: I have trod the upward and the downward slope Iain Burnside 2:04 �0.69

10. The House of Life: Love-sight Roderick Williams 4:19 �0.69

11. The House of Life: Silent Noon Roderick Williams 4:09 �0.69

12. The House of Life: Love's Minstrels Roderick Williams 5:20 �0.69

13. The House of Life: Heart's Haven Roderick Williams 3:42 �0.69

14. The House of Life: Death in Love Roderick Williams 4:30 �0.69

15. The House of Life: Love's Last Gift Roderick Williams 4:19 �0.69

16. Linden Lea Iain Burnside 2:44 �0.69

17. 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: Motion and Stillness Iain Burnside 1:52 �0.69

18. 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: Four Nights Iain Burnside 3:36 �0.69

19. 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: The New Ghost Iain Burnside 5:15 �0.69

20. 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: The Water Mill Iain Burnside 3:00 �0.69

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5.0 out of 5 stars This performance is a pleasure to listen to, 14 Sep 2006

By	Bernard Davis "Bernard Davis" (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

When Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the Songs of Travel song cycle in 1904 it was still usual for people as far down the social scale as the lower middle classes to entertain themselves around the family piano. The latest popular songs would be purchased as sheet music to be played and sang along to. It is a mark of Vaughan Williams particular genius that he is able to evoke precisely the right atmosphere in for the subject of each song by simple means so that good amateur musicians can play them. This simplicity allows his constant melodic invention to sing out clearly. It is the genius of this recording that it creates the intimate atmosphere of a performance around the home piano, whilst also being a performance of the highest standard.

I much prefer this performance to that with Bryn Terfel singing. Bryn Terfel has a fine richly coloured voice that is well suited to opera, but it is rather too big a beast for these more intimate songs. Here the baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Iain Burnside make an ideal pairing. Roderick Williams brings the character out of the songs without overpowering them. Iain Burnside displays a deft touch and understanding of Vaughan Williams style of piano writing in which arpeggios of notes sound out rather like muted peals of bells. The sound engineering is excellent.

The works on this disc are all in similar style. Both Songs of Travel, based on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, and The House of Life based on poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, were composed in 1904 when Vaughan Williams was a young 32 year old composer. The Four Poems by Fredegond Shrove from 1925 are in a more developed, but similar style. The House of Life is the longest cycle here and the most expressive, with Vaughan Williams clearly relishing Robert Louis Stevenson's descriptions of the life of a vagabond on the road. However, there is no dipping in quality all the way to the last song on the CD, The Water Mill, in which the piano part revels in the energy of the flowing stream and the turning wheel.

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