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| ARTIST: | John Rutter, David Rix, Duke Dobing, Rachel Masters, Christopher Hooker, Anonymous, English Anonymous, Disa English, Traditional, Christmas Traditional |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Collegium |
| TYPE: | Band, Band Music, Baroque Individual Dance Movement for Orchestra, Choral, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Vocals, Folk Song, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Orchestral, Renaissance Polyphonic Song, Secular Choral Music a cappella, Unknown Genre/Unspecified Instrumentation, Vocal |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | I know where I'm going, She moved through the fair, The lark in the clear air, Down by the sally gardens, Dashing away with the smoothing iron, The spring time of the year, The sprig of thyme, The bold grenadier, The British Grenadiers, The dark eyed sailor, The keel row, The girl I left behind me, Just as the tide was flowing, The cuckoo, O waly, waly, She's like the swallow, The lover's ghost, Willow song, The willow tree, Wassail song, The miller of Dee, O can ye sew cushions, Afton water, Golden slumbers |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 040888012023 |
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Customer Reviews of The Lark in the Clear Air
Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing This is very typical of John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. Superbly performed, meaning not too forceful or too delicate. Diction and tone excellent. The folk song is not necessairly as entertaining or enjoyable as some of their other repertoire, nor is it as meaningful, but it still a powerful listening experience. The money for this recording will be well spent. The arrangements, well chosen, showcase beautiful, evocative choral singing. Vaughan Williams' arrangements are best, and he is well known for his arrangements of folk songs. Rutter's are good, but his harmonies are too often predictable or saccharine. <
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>Best are: Dashing away with the smoothing iron (5), The Dark Eyed Sailor (10), The Girl I Left Behind Me (12), Just as the tide was flowing (13), O waly, waly (15)
Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter
This is a collection of Irish, Scottish, and English folk songs beautifully caressed by The Cambridge Singers under the masterful direction of John Rutter. He seems to possess an uncanny ability to create a uniquely lush and lyrical sound with a choir.
In listening to these songs, I find that they have the capacity to simultaneously evoke feelings of melancholy and joy, and, ultimately leave me to conclude that I have been visited by sheer beauty.
The Lark touches my own heart!
In this review I am going to be exceptionally candid! This CD is a wonderfully arranged and performed set of traditional songs that will be treasured by any lover of this delicate yet vigorous music. I was a child of post war England in a poor suburb of South East England and our music teacher used to make us sing these songs which came from The National Song Book and from the folk song collectors, notably Vaughan Williams who put so much of this national flavor into his two collections, 'The English Hymnal' and 'Songs of Praise'. Before our generation the BBC had set up a radio programme called 'Listen with Mother' which we followed the established tradition of listening to them in those years of austerity (its funny you know, but we did not seem to get bored like they do today) on November evenings when the pea souper fogs swirled around the blue mercury lamps as the coal glowed orange in the grate. This music transported us to May mornings, harvesting, landscapes peopled with grenadiers, young love sick swains tip toeing in forbidden rooms at night etc. from these bleak afternoons and gave us the promise of the return of the season when we will be able to walk the Downs under blue skies once more. They also made us think that we were part of a continuum of being young, loving, having children and growing old and dying on this misty offshore island as hundred of generations had done before us. This self-consciousness of these characteristics that made us English and in their understated passion they revealed to us the promises of adulthood together with its victories, disillusionments and inevitable tragedies. Alas, the powers that dictate the conventional wisdom today have consigned these songs to the trash basket of history in the name of multiculturalism and globalism. The songs are not sung today as they appear too ethnocentric in a pluralistic society for our contemporary captains of society. This is a shame for those of us with no real English blood could still participate and enjoy these lovely songs that summon up the freshness of a spring morning or the pangs of a spurned lover in a few lines of beautifully stated verse. These are universal feelings that just happened to be in an English setting, which was where we were! The arrangements here are sublime, particularly 'She moved through the Fair' which always moves me to tears. The subject 'What are the English?' is a current topic for the UK is still settling down after Devolution and finding its own identity. They could do worse than playing 'The Lark in the Clear Air' to answer this question tout court. Please buy, but be warned: this stuff can be dangerously upsetting in its waves of nostalgia. It is like meeting a long lost (and forgotten) friend. That is an (almost lost) part of yourself.