Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

 
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
James Gilchrist (tenor), Philip Dukes (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)

[ Chandos / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 20 January 2018

Having previously recorded British repertoire on Chandos, James Gilchrist joins the pianist Anna Tilbrook nine years after their previous recording, in a lyrical journey through some of Vaughan Williams's best songs and rarely heard chamber works. They are joined by Philip Dukes, 'Great Britain's most outstanding viola player', according to The Times. This album captures the composer's love for both the voice and the viola, bringing together five works for tenor and piano, two for tenor, viola, and piano, and two works for viola and piano alone. Central to the recording is the fresh, invigorating, and at times reflective cycle 'Songs of Travel,' composed between 1901 and 1904, of special interest is also an arrangement of 'Rhosymedre' by the chief music critic of The Times, Richard Morrison, recorded here for the first time and performed by the same forces who gave the premiere of the arrangement in St. John's Smith Square in 2016 to critical acclaim.

Tracks:

Songs of Travel
6 Studies in English Folksong (Version for Viola & Piano)
The Sky above the Roof
Orpheus With His Lute
The House of Life
The Winter's Willow
Romance for viola & piano
Preludes (3) on Welsh Hymn Tunes (Bryn Calfaria, Rhosymedre & Hyfrydol), for organ
4 Hymns