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Hagman Review: Vaughan Williams Folk Songs - new CD (48) RE: Review: Vaughan Williams Folk Songs - new CD 11 Apr 21


Vol. 2 of this projected four-volume series has just been issued.

Contains:                                 

                                           Roud No.

Nine English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachian Mountains (c. 1938, published 1967):

1 The Rich Old Lady                T      183      1’54
2 The Tree in the Wood             B      129      2’34
3 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor      B      4       4’03
4 The Lovers’ Tasks                S & T 12/21093 3’18
5 John Randolph                     S & T 10       4’20
6 Fair Margaret and Sweet William   S      253      4’42
7 Barbara Ellen                     B      54       4’34
8 The House Carpenter               S      14       5’35
9 The Twelve Apostles               T & B 133      3'01

Two English Folk Songs for voice & violin (c 1913, published 1935):

10 Searching for Lambs             T & V   576      3’30
11 The Lawyer                      T & V   922      1’49

A Selection of Collected Folk Songs Volume 1 (1917):

12 Down by the Riverside          B       1438    1’27
13 I will give my Love an Apple    S       330      1’24
14 The Carter                      T       2408    1’47
15 The Painful Plough             B       355      3’49
16 My Boy Billy                   S       326      2’03
17 The Fox                         T       131      1’02
18 The Female Highwayman          S       7       2’40
19 Farmyard Song                   S & T   544      2’41

Total recording time: 56’22

Key: S = Soprano; T = Tenor; B = Baritone, V = Violin

The piano accompanies tracks 1 to 9 and 12 to 19

Mary Bevan soprano, Nicky Spence tenor, Roderick Williams baritone, Thomas Gould violin, William Vann piano

(Apols for the formatting of the table - but you get the gist, I'm sure: Title - Configuration - Roud No. - Time.)


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