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Above: RVW singing with the Whitsuntide Singers
outside Chichester Cathedral. Holst was conducting.
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The Sky Above the Roof |
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1908. For voice
and piano. Text from the poem Le
ciel est pardessus le toit by
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896).
Ruth Golden: Soprano. Levering Rothfuss: Piano
©Koch 3-7168-2 H1
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The House of Life |
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Words by D.G. Rossetti.
A cyle of six sonnets.
Left: Gabriel Rossetti |
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Songs of Travel |
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Words by Robert Louis
Stephenson.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Sir Simon Rattle,
Thomas Allen (baritone).
©HMV
Left: Robert Louis Stephenson |
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The Vagabond |
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Let beauty awake |
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Youth and love |
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Whither must I wander |
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Linden Lea |
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An original song. Written
in 1901. Subtitled 'A Doset Folk Song'.
The extract here arranged for choir by William Barnes.
Choirmaster
Brian Kay.
London Philharmonic, Conductor Richard Hickox
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Left: VW on his bike. He often
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Four Poems by Fredegond
Shove |
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Music Group of London,
Ian Partridge (tenor), Jennifer Partridge (piano).
©EMI |
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Ten Blake Songs |
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The extract here is
'Infant Joy'.
For oboe and voice
Music Group of London, Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (oboe).
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