James Geer & Ronald Woodley — Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Volume 1 (2022)

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The first of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams\’s birth presents two of his major song collections, while brig to light a substantial number of songs by the composer\’s student Elizabeth Maconchy. Her works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their original first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composer\’s career from the of her studies with Vaughan Williams in the mid-1920s though to her committed espousal of the British modernist aesthetic by the 1960s and 70s. The songs are performed by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley in this continuation of their long-standing partnership.
Tracklist
01. Songs of Travel: I. The Vagabond
02. Songs of Travel: II. Let Beauty Awake
03. Songs of Travel: III. The Roadside Fire
04. Songs of Travel: IV. Youth and Love
05. Songs of Travel: V. In Dreams
06. Songs of Travel: VI. The Infinite Shining Heavens
07. Songs of Travel: VII. Whither Must I Wander
08. Songs of Travel: VIII. Bright is the Ring of Words
09. Songs of Travel: IX. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
10. Love Stood At My Door
11. The Bee-Sting
12. The Woodspurge
13. The Cloths of Heaven
14. The Thrush
15. Impetuous Heart, Be Still
16. Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: I. Motion and Stillness
17. Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: II. Four Nights
18. Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: III. The New Ghost
19. Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: IV. The Water Mill
20. Faustus