Treasury of English Song

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Composer or Director: Peter Warlock, John (Nicholson) Ireland, Edward Elgar, Granville Bantock, Traditional, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Roger Quilter, Maurice Jacobson, Frank Bridge, Joseph Holbrooke, Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Cyril (Meir) Scott, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Frederick Delius, Graham Peel, (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Label: EMI

Magazine Review Date: 1/1987

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Catalogue Number: EX290911-5

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Speak, music	Edward Elgar, Composer Edward Elgar, Composer Eric Marshall, Baritone Maurice Jacobson, Composer
Is she not passing fair?	Edward Elgar, Composer David Lloyd, Tenor Edward Elgar, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano
In the dawn	Edward Elgar, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Edward Elgar, Composer John Coates, Tenor
When I was one and twenty	Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Composer Anne Thursfield, Mezzo soprano Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Composer Ivor Newton, Piano
Songs of Sun and Shade, Movement: Thou art risen, my beloved (wds. M. Ratclyffe-Hall	Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Composer Madame Adami, Piano Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Composer Timothy Davies, Conductor
English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Lucasta (wds. Lovelace)	(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Robert Irwin, Baritone
English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: To Anthea (wds. Lovelace)	(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Robert Irwin, Baritone
Love's secret	Granville Bantock, Composer Edwin Schneider, Piano Granville Bantock, Composer John McCormack, Tenor
Dream of Spring	Granville Bantock, Composer Edwin Schneider, Piano Granville Bantock, Composer John McCormack, Tenor
Where be you going?	Joseph Holbrooke, Composer Joseph Holbrooke, Composer Norman Allin, Bass
(5) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: It was a lover and his lass	Roger Quilter, Composer Mark Raphael, Baritone Roger Quilter, Composer Roger Quilter, Piano
(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: Come Away Death	Roger Quilter, Composer Derek Oldham, Tenor piano trio Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: O Mistress mine	Roger Quilter, Composer Derek Oldham, Tenor piano trio Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Now sleeps the crimson petal (wds. Tennyson	Roger Quilter, Composer Derek Oldham, Tenor Miss Swale, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 2, The fuchsia tree (wds. Manx ballad: 1923)	Roger Quilter, Composer Carmen Hill, Mezzo soprano Madame Adami, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 5, Music, when soft voices die (wds. Shelley)	Roger Quilter, Composer Mark Raphael, Baritone Roger Quilter, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Love's philosophy (wds. Shelley: 1905)	Roger Quilter, Composer Mark Raphael, Baritone Roger Quilter, Composer Roger Quilter, Piano
In Summertime on Bredon	Graham Peel, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Gervase Elwes, Tenor Graham Peel, Composer
When lights go rolling	John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Stuart Robertson, Baritone
Sea Fever	John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
If there were dreams to sell	John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer George Baker, Baritone John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Madame Adami, Piano
(2) Danish Songs, Movement: The Violet	Frederick Delius, Composer Dora Labbette, Soprano Frederick Delius, Composer Thomas Beecham, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: Love's Philosophy	Frederick Delius, Composer Frederick Delius, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor
(7) Songs from the Norwegian, Movement: Evening Voices, or Twilight Fancies (wds. B. Bjö	Frederick Delius, Composer Frederick Delius, Composer Leila Megane, Mezzo soprano Madame Adami, Piano
Come to me in my dreams	Frank Bridge, Composer Frank Bridge, Composer Percy Kahn, Piano Richard Tauber, Tenor
Love went a-riding	Frank Bridge, Composer Edwin McArthur, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano
O that it were so	Frank Bridge, Composer Edward Haley, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Olga Haley, Mezzo soprano
Lovely kind	Gustav Holst, Composer Gustav Holst, Composer J. Brath, Piano Peter Dawson, Bass-baritone
Blackbird's song	Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril Scott, Piano Gertrud Johnson, Soprano
Lullaby	Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril Scott, Piano Gertrud Johnson, Soprano
(3) Irish Songs, Movement: Rann of Wandering	Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Peter Dawson, Bass-baritone
(The) White peace	Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano John McCormack, Tenor
Phyllis has such charming graces	Traditional, Composer David Lloyd, Tenor Gerald Moore, Piano Traditional, Composer
(The) House of Life, Movement: No. 2, Silent Noon	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Songs of Travel, Movement: The Vagabond	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
Songs of Travel, Movement: Let Beauty awake	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
Songs of Travel, Movement: The Roadside fire	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
As ever I saw	Peter Warlock, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Peter Warlock, Composer Philip Jones, Trumpet
There is a lady sweet and kind	Peter Warlock, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Peter Warlock, Composer Philip Jones, Trumpet
Sweet-and-twenty	Peter Warlock, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Nancy Evans, Contralto (Female alto) Peter Warlock, Composer
Consider	Peter Warlock, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Nancy Evans, Contralto (Female alto) Peter Warlock, Composer
Diaphenia	E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor
(The) Sweet o' the year	E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor

Label: EMI

Magazine Review Date: 1/1987

Media Format: Vinyl

Media Runtime: 0

Catalogue Number: EX290911-3

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Speak, music	Edward Elgar, Composer Edward Elgar, Composer Eric Marshall, Baritone Maurice Jacobson, Composer
Is she not passing fair?	Edward Elgar, Composer David Lloyd, Tenor Edward Elgar, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano
In the dawn	Edward Elgar, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Edward Elgar, Composer John Coates, Tenor
When I was one and twenty	Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Composer Anne Thursfield, Mezzo soprano Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Composer Ivor Newton, Piano
Songs of Sun and Shade, Movement: Thou art risen, my beloved (wds. M. Ratclyffe-Hall	Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Composer Madame Adami, Piano Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Composer Timothy Davies, Conductor
English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Lucasta (wds. Lovelace)	(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Robert Irwin, Baritone
English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: To Anthea (wds. Lovelace)	(Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Robert Irwin, Baritone
Love's secret	Granville Bantock, Composer Edwin Schneider, Piano Granville Bantock, Composer John McCormack, Tenor
Dream of Spring	Granville Bantock, Composer Edwin Schneider, Piano Granville Bantock, Composer John McCormack, Tenor
Where be you going?	Joseph Holbrooke, Composer Joseph Holbrooke, Composer Norman Allin, Bass
(5) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: It was a lover and his lass	Roger Quilter, Composer Mark Raphael, Baritone Roger Quilter, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: Come Away Death	Roger Quilter, Composer Derek Oldham, Tenor piano trio Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: O Mistress mine	Roger Quilter, Composer Derek Oldham, Tenor piano trio Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Now sleeps the crimson petal (wds. Tennyson	Roger Quilter, Composer Derek Oldham, Tenor Miss Swale, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 2, The fuchsia tree (wds. Manx ballad: 1923)	Roger Quilter, Composer Carmen Hill, Mezzo soprano Madame Adami, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(6) Songs, Movement: No. 5, Music, when soft voices die (wds. Shelley)	Roger Quilter, Composer Mark Raphael, Baritone Roger Quilter, Piano Roger Quilter, Composer
(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Love's philosophy (wds. Shelley: 1905)	Roger Quilter, Composer Mark Raphael, Baritone Roger Quilter, Composer Roger Quilter, Piano
In Summertime on Bredon	Graham Peel, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Gervase Elwes, Tenor Graham Peel, Composer
When lights go rolling	John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Stuart Robertson, Baritone
Sea Fever	John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
If there were dreams to sell	John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer George Baker, Baritone John (Nicholson) Ireland, Composer Madame Adami, Piano
(2) Danish Songs, Movement: The Violet	Frederick Delius, Composer Dora Labbette, Soprano Frederick Delius, Composer Thomas Beecham, Piano
(3) Songs, Movement: Love's Philosophy	Frederick Delius, Composer Frederick Delius, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor
(7) Songs from the Norwegian, Movement: Evening Voices, or Twilight Fancies (wds. B. Bjö	Frederick Delius, Composer Frederick Delius, Composer Leila Megane, Mezzo soprano Madame Adami, Piano
Come to me in my dreams	Frank Bridge, Composer Frank Bridge, Composer Percy Kahn, Piano Richard Tauber, Tenor
Love went a-riding	Frank Bridge, Composer Edwin McArthur, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Kirsten Flagstad, Soprano
O that it were so	Frank Bridge, Composer Edward Haley, Piano Frank Bridge, Composer Olga Haley, Mezzo soprano
Lovely kind	Gustav Holst, Composer Gustav Holst, Composer J. Brath, Piano Peter Dawson, Bass-baritone
Blackbird's song	Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril Scott, Piano Gertrud Johnson, Soprano
Lullaby	Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril (Meir) Scott, Composer Cyril Scott, Piano Gertrud Johnson, Soprano
(3) Irish Songs, Movement: Rann of Wandering	Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Peter Dawson, Bass-baritone
(The) White peace	Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Arnold (Edward Trevor) Bax, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano John McCormack, Tenor
Phyllis has such charming graces	Traditional, Composer David Lloyd, Tenor Gerald Moore, Piano Traditional, Composer
(The) House of Life, Movement: No. 2, Silent Noon	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer
Songs of Travel, Movement: The Vagabond	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
Songs of Travel, Movement: Let Beauty awake	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
Songs of Travel, Movement: The Roadside fire	Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer Robert Irwin, Baritone
As ever I saw	Peter Warlock, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Peter Warlock, Composer Philip Jones, Trumpet
There is a lady sweet and kind	Peter Warlock, Composer Anonymous Pianist(s), Piano Peter Warlock, Composer Philip Jones, Trumpet
Sweet-and-twenty	Peter Warlock, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Nancy Evans, Contralto (Female alto) Peter Warlock, Composer
Consider	Peter Warlock, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Nancy Evans, Contralto (Female alto) Peter Warlock, Composer
Diaphenia	E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor
(The) Sweet o' the year	E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer E(rnest) J(ohn) Moeran, Composer Gerald Moore, Piano Heddle Nash, Tenor

Author:

Here are some old friends, fondly remembered from 78rpm days, and some discoveries (for me, at any rate). If one occasionally smiles at the 'ghastly good taste' of some of the phrasing, particularly from the male singers, one finds much more to admire—the superb diction, for example, and the interpretative thought behind almost every performance. Fortunate, though, the later singers who were accompanied by Gerald Moore—in that department, the revolution he wrought is obvious to hear.
It is a surprise to find Tauber singing Frank Bridge, rather well, too, and sounding slightly more at ease with the idiom than Flagstad does in Love went a-riding,exciting though her performance is. Peter Dawson is well represented by a 1922 Silent Noon (a trifle mannered), a rare Holst song from 1923 and, best of all, a stirring performance of Bax's fine Rann of Exile. M c Cormack sings Bax's The White Peace with marvellous conviction and is in persuasively honeyed form in two Bantock songs, one of them an attractive setting of Blake's poem Love's Secret. Elgar wanted him to sing Gerontius and I wonder if it would have been a good idea. No fewer than five famous interpreters of that role are among the tenors on these records, although only one of them is heard in Elgar—John Coates, whose 1915 In the Dawn tantalizingly suggests how magnificent he must have been—I can understand why Elgar preferred him to Elwes, represented by a rather strained account of Peel's Bredon Hill, also recorded in 1915.
In a Delius group, Dora Labbette, accompanied by Beecham, sounds sweetly fragile. Heddle Nash, third of the Gerontius singers (the others are Tudor Davies and Parry Jones), is pressingly urgent in Love's philosophy, surely a classic performance and a notable example of this stylish tenor's art. Twilight fancies is sung dramatically by the mezzo Leila Megane, on this evidence a considerable performer. Even more impressive is Olga Haley, whose 1918 recording of Bridge's O that it were so has real tension.
Two Cyril Scott songs are winningly sung by an Australian soprano and pupil of Melba, Gertrude Johnson, accompanied by the composer. These are a real discovery. Admirers of George Baker, David Lloyd and Derek Oldham will find good examples of their favourites, but the Norman Allin example is poor and Tudor Davies tends to over-heat a Coleridge-Taylor song. It is instructive to hear Mark Raphael's singing of Quilter though I don't like it much, but I do like Robert Irwin's clear, unaffected and sympathetic performances of Parry, Ireland and Vaughan Williams, while Nash's Linden Lea is a lesson for modern singers in how to turn a phrase to perfection.'

Treasury of English Song

Speak, music

Is she not passing fair?

In the dawn

When I was one and twenty

Songs of Sun and Shade, Movement: Thou art risen, my beloved (wds. M. Ratclyffe-Hall

English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Lucasta (wds. Lovelace)

English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: To Anthea (wds. Lovelace)

Love's secret

Dream of Spring

Where be you going?

(5) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: It was a lover and his lass

(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: Come Away Death

(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: O Mistress mine

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Now sleeps the crimson petal (wds. Tennyson

(6) Songs, Movement: No. 2, The fuchsia tree (wds. Manx ballad: 1923)

(6) Songs, Movement: No. 5, Music, when soft voices die (wds. Shelley)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Love's philosophy (wds. Shelley: 1905)

In Summertime on Bredon

When lights go rolling

Sea Fever

If there were dreams to sell

(2) Danish Songs, Movement: The Violet

(3) Songs, Movement: Love's Philosophy

(7) Songs from the Norwegian, Movement: Evening Voices, or Twilight Fancies (wds. B. Bjö

Come to me in my dreams

Love went a-riding

O that it were so

Lovely kind

Blackbird's song

Lullaby

(3) Irish Songs, Movement: Rann of Wandering

(The) White peace

Phyllis has such charming graces

(The) House of Life, Movement: No. 2, Silent Noon

Songs of Travel, Movement: The Vagabond

Songs of Travel, Movement: Let Beauty awake

Songs of Travel, Movement: The Roadside fire

As ever I saw

There is a lady sweet and kind

Sweet-and-twenty

Consider

Diaphenia

(The) Sweet o' the year

Treasury of English Song

Speak, music

Is she not passing fair?

In the dawn

When I was one and twenty

Songs of Sun and Shade, Movement: Thou art risen, my beloved (wds. M. Ratclyffe-Hall

English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: Lucasta (wds. Lovelace)

English Lyrics, Set 3, Movement: To Anthea (wds. Lovelace)

Love's secret

Dream of Spring

Where be you going?

(5) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: It was a lover and his lass

(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: Come Away Death

(3) Shakespeare Songs, Movement: O Mistress mine

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 2, Now sleeps the crimson petal (wds. Tennyson

(6) Songs, Movement: No. 2, The fuchsia tree (wds. Manx ballad: 1923)

(6) Songs, Movement: No. 5, Music, when soft voices die (wds. Shelley)

(3) Songs, Movement: No. 1, Love's philosophy (wds. Shelley: 1905)

In Summertime on Bredon

When lights go rolling

Sea Fever

If there were dreams to sell

(2) Danish Songs, Movement: The Violet

(3) Songs, Movement: Love's Philosophy

(7) Songs from the Norwegian, Movement: Evening Voices, or Twilight Fancies (wds. B. Bjö

Come to me in my dreams

Love went a-riding

O that it were so

Lovely kind

Blackbird's song

Lullaby

(3) Irish Songs, Movement: Rann of Wandering

(The) White peace

Phyllis has such charming graces

(The) House of Life, Movement: No. 2, Silent Noon

Songs of Travel, Movement: The Vagabond

Songs of Travel, Movement: Let Beauty awake

Songs of Travel, Movement: The Roadside fire

As ever I saw

There is a lady sweet and kind

Sweet-and-twenty

Consider

Diaphenia

(The) Sweet o' the year

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