Ralph Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel Nr.1-9 (CD)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside

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+The House of Life; Linden Lea; 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove

Artists:: Roderick Williams, Iain Burnside
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2004
UPC/EAN:: 0747313264322
Release date:: 26.9.2005
Series:: Naxos English Song Series

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Although Vaughan Williams is best known as a symphonist and for large-scale choral works, the essence of his music can also be found in his songs, which demonstrate a peerless sensitivity to the beauty of the English language. Songs of Travel, composed in 1904 at a time when the composer's personal voice was emerging, have been described as a "kind of English Winterreise". Together with The House of Life, settings of six sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, they are the first to mark a significant advance from the Edwardian parlour song towards true English art song. Volume 3 of the Naxos English Song Series (8.557114) features Vaughan Williams' famous Housman settings On Wenlock Edge."