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Composer:
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Artist(s):
James Gilchrist
Fitzwilliam String Qt

Background: James Gilchrist has established a reputation as the leading figure in English song interpretation. Vaughan Williams, a tour de force of English song, set AE Housman's 'On Wenlock Edge' following a visit with Ravel in Paris. The French influence can be clearly heard in the distinctive piano quintet accompaniment - an innovation in English song.

This is a premiere recording of Gurney's masterpiece 'Ludlow & Teme' using the composer's revised and corrected version which, after studying with Vaughan Williams, he declared to be his favourite: 'the alterations are simple (and striking).'

'The Curlew', imaginatively scored for flute, cor anglais and string quartet, recalls a peaceful English countryside despite the stormy relationship between Warlock and the poet WB Yeats.

Bliss and poet Cecil Day-Lewis (father of actor Daniel) wrote the expressive and poignant 'Elegiac Sonnet' for the late pianist Noel Mewton-Wood, described as 'the best talent that I've discovered in the British Empire for years' by Thomas Beecham.

CATALOGUE NR: CKD296
RECORD LABEL: Linn
FORMAT: Hybrid SACD
PRICE: £ 12.95 including VAT, or £ 11.02 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 02-Jul-2007

COMPOSER: Ralph Vaughan Williams  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: On Wenlock Edge
TRACKS: On Wenlock Edge (Ralph Vaughan-Williams). The Curlew (Peter Warlock). Elegiac Sonnet (Arthur Bliss). Ludlow & Teme (Ivor Gurney).
ARTISTS: James Gilchrist   Fitzwilliam String Qt    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: this multichannel SACD Hybrid plays on all modern CD players - Aug-2007 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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