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Vaughan Williams - Along the Field on Wenlock Edge Merciless Beauty Ten Blake Songs, and others / Ainsley The Nash Ensemble
Vaughan Williams - Along the Field on Wenlock Edge  Merciless Beauty  Ten Blake Songs, and others / Ainsley  The Nash Ensemble
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Artists: Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Mark Ainsley, The Nash Ensemble
Label: Hyperion UK
Category: Music

List Price: $23.98
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars(3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 198492

Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.6 x 0.5

UPC: 034571171685
EAN: 0034571171685
ASIN: B00004WMWQ

Release Date: October 10, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Tracks:

  • Merciless Beauty: Your Eyen Two
  • Merciless Beauty: So Hath Your Beauty
  • Merciless Beauty: Since I From Love
  • Two English Folksongs: Searching For Lambs
  • Two English Folksongs: The Lawyer
  • Ten Blake Songs: Infant Joy
  • Ten Blake Songs: A Poison Tree
  • Ten Blake Songs: The Piper
  • Ten Blake Songs: London
  • Ten Blake Songs: The Lamb
  • Ten Blake Songs: The Shepherd
  • Ten Blake Songs: Ah, Sun-Flower
  • Ten Blake Songs: Cruelty Has A Human Heart
  • Ten Blake Songs: The Divine Image
  • Ten Blake Songs: Eternity
  • Along The Field: We'll To The Woods No More
  • Along The Field
  • Along The Field: The Half-Moon Westers Low
  • Along The Field: In The Morning
  • Along The Field: The Sigh That Heaves The Grasses
  • Along The Field: Good-Bye
  • Along The Field: Fancy's Knell
  • Along The Field: With Rue My Heart Is Laden
  • On Wenlock Edge: On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble
  • On Wenlock Edge: From Far, From Eve And Morning
  • On Wenlock Edge: Is My Team Ploughing?
  • On Wenlock Edge: Oh, When I Was In Love With You
  • On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill
  • On Wenlock Edge: Clun

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Unsurpassed setting of poetry to music   August 23, 2006
Apart from the quality of the performance here, it's worth noting that perhaps no one has done a finer job of setting great poetry to music than Vaughan Williams. His settings of Blake's poems are superb: they reveal aspects of Blake many readers miss. His settings of A. E. Housman's poems are just as good. (Housman is not listed here, but he wrote about ten of the poems on this record.) I recommend that those teaching Blake or Housman play selections from this. High school students in particular are likely to find Blake more accessible after hearing the songs.


5 out of 5 stars Incomparable singing of English music   October 4, 2001
  4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This notable recording is a welcome addition to John Mark Ainsley's catalogue of English music; his lovely, cultivated yet heartfelt voice is heard to advantage throughout the disc, wonderfully supported by the Nash Ensemble. "On Wenlock Edge" is here given the best recorded performance I know; it is superbly sung and played, with "Bredon Hill" being an especially high point, from the lovely rising phrase of the first line through the drama of the central section and the poignancy of "And would not wait for me." "Is My Team Ploughing?" is sung with real mastery; dramatic without hand-wringing, melancholy without melodrama, it is a perfect example of the art of a singer unequalled today in the interpretation of English song.


4 out of 5 stars Blake Songs are the highlight   February 19, 2001
  2 out of 4 found this review helpful

I bought this recording because I adore the Blake songs and wished to have a recording of them at long last, and these are without question the highlight of this CD for me. I enjoy all the other songs, and Mr. Ainsley sings in tune with a beautiful tone, but they tend to blend together into one long opus.


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