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Above: RVW singing with the Whitsuntide
Singers outside Chichester Cathedral. Holst was conducting.
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The Sky Above
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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
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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
©CHANDOS
Left: VW on his bike.
He often collected folk songs by touring public houses
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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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