CD recording ideas

Subject: CD recording ideas
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Date: 16 Nov 98 - 03:04 PM

From Spring onwards next year I shall be working on my first solo album (used to sing with Jinks' Stack)with a number of musicians including Tim Van Eyken, string sections etc etc.

I have masses of material which I am able to arrange and record but would welcome the thoughts of all you out there. I'm particularly interested in "bridgeing" the gap between what is normally accepted as the standard unaccompanied trad. performance style and the classical arrangements by Williams, Holst, Britten etc of song and music.

Have you any ideas about material which would fit the pastoral mode of folk song. Songs from the tradition which conjour up visions of Constable paintings etc etc.

Subject: RE: CD recording ideas
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 16 Nov 98 - 03:30 PM

Hi Graham!

'Just As The Tide Was Flowing' comes to mind.

On the topic of traditional song as art song, you might want to listen to Copland's American songs which were very successfully "arted-up" by him. There is at least 1 very nice recorded performance. Memory tells me that the singer was William Warfield.

All the best, Dan Milner