New Album Releases: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - FOLK SONGS, VOL 1 (Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams & William Vann)

Artist:
Mary Bevan
Nicky Spence
Roderick Williams
William Vann

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
01:08:29

Record Label:
Albion Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, iTunes

Release Date
October 23, 2020

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Product Description: This is the first in a series of four albums recording all 80 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 80 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements, so there is a good deal of unknown - but very beautiful - music to be found here. This first album has 23 tracks including 15 world premières. It includes Folk Songs from Sussex (1912) and Six English Folk Songs (1935). Later volumes will include songs collected in the Eastern Counties (1908), the Appalachian Mountains (about 1938) and from Newfoundland (1946). Vaughan Williams is well known as a collector of folk songs, but his own collection by no means predominates in this series; most of the arrangements were made and published as a collaborative effort, drawn from many sources. The 14 songs from Sussex on this album were all collected by Percy Merrick from Henry Hills, a farmer from Lodsworth, Sussex, around 1900. Some will be well-known in other arrangements; others will be unfamiliar.

TRACK LIST:

1 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 1, Bold General Wolfe by Roderick Williams and William Vann (2:06)

2 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 2, Low Down in the Broom by Benedict Hymas, Cara Curran, Helen Ashby, James Arthur, Kate Ashby, Nicholas Ashby, Nicky Spence and William Vann (3:09)

3 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 3, The Thresherman and the Squire by Roderick Williams and William Vann (2:34)

4 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 4, The Pretty Ploughboy by Roderick Williams and William Vann (3:11)

5 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 5, O Who Is That That Raps at My Window? by Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams and William Vann (3:34)

6 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 6, How Cold the Wind Doth Blow by Jack Liebeck, Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and William Vann (5:30)

7 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 7, Captain Grant by Roderick Williams and William Vann (2:22)

8 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 8, Farewell, Lads by Mary Bevan and William Vann (4:54)

9 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 9, Come, All You Worthy Christians by Roderick Williams and William Vann (2:30)

10 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 10, The Turkish Lady by Nicky Spence and William Vann (2:53)

11 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 11, The Seeds of Love by Jack Liebeck, Mary Bevan and William Vann (3:33)

12 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 12, The Maid of Islington by Roderick Williams and William Vann (3:08)

13 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 13, Here’s Adieu to all Judges and Juries by Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and William Vann (2:18)

14 . Folk-Songs of England, Book 5 ."From Sussex" (Ed. C. Sharpe): No. 14, Lovely Joan by Nicky Spence and William Vann (4:11)

15 . 6 .English Folk Songs: No. 1, Robin Hood and the Pedlar by Mary Bevan and William Vann (3:41)

16 . 6 .English Folk Songs: No. 2, The Ploughman by Nicky Spence and William Vann (1:41)

17 . 6 .English Folk Songs: No. 3, One Man, Two Men by Mary Bevan and William Vann (1:54)

18 . 6 .English Folk Songs: No. 4, The Brewer by Roderick Williams and William Vann (1:46)

19 . 6 .English Folk Songs: No. 5, Rolling in the Dew by Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence and William Vann (2:08)

20 . 6 .English Folk Songs: No. 6, King William by Roderick Williams and William Vann (2:46)

21 . The Golden Vanity by Benedict Hymas, Cara Curran, Helen Ashby, James Arthur, Kate Ashby, Nicholas Ashby, Nicky Spence and William Vann (2:44)

22 . 5 .English Folk Songs: No. 3, Just as the Tide Was Flowing by Benedict Hymas, Cara Curran, Helen Ashby, James Arthur, Kate Ashby, Nicholas Ashby, Nicky Spence and William Vann (3:13)

23 . The Spanish Ladies by Roderick Williams and William Vann (2:39)

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