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| ARTIST: | Benjamin Britten, Frederick Delius, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, E. J. Moeran, Charles Villiers Stanford, English & Irish Traditional, John Rutter, Nicholas Sears, The Cambridge Singers |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Collegium |
| TYPE: | Vocal, Classical Vocals, Vocal Music, Part Song/Glee/Music for Unaccompanied Voices, Miscellaneous Music, Choral Music, Classical Music, Miscellaneous, Folk Song, Classical, Secular Choral Music a cappella, Choral, Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Secular Choral Music |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | The Blue Bird (Op.119,No.3), Two Unaccompanied Part Songs: To Be Sung Of A Summer Night On The Water - I, Two Unaccompanied Part Songs: To Be Sung Of A Summer Night On The Water - II, There Is Sweet Music (Op.53, No.1), My Love Dwelt In A Northern Land, Three Shakespeare Songs: 1. Full Fathom Five, Three Shakespeare Songs: 2. The Cloud-Capp'd Towers, Three Shakespeare Songs: 3. Over Hill, Over Dale, The Sailor And Young Nancy, Brigg Fair, Londonderry Air, The Three Ravens, My Sweetheart's Like Venus, The Oak And The Ash, Quick! We Have But A Second, Five Flower Songs, Op.47: 1. To Daffodils, Five Flower Songs, Op.47: 2. The Succession Of The Four Sweet Months, Five Flower Songs, Op.47: 3. Marsh Flowers, Five Flower Songs, Op.47: 4. The Evening Primrose, Five Flower Songs, Op.47: 5. Ballad Of Green Broom |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 040888010425 |
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Customer Reviews of There Is Sweet Music: English Choral Songs 1890-1950
The Inimitable British Choral Music It is such pleasure to see this re-release of 1986 recording by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers from the Great Hall of University College School, London. The original recording has long been a favorite of legions of devotees of the British Choral tradition and this collection remains one of the finest samplings of significant a capella songs available. <
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>Opening with the hauntingly simple and beautiful 'The blue bird' by CV Stanford (to whom this album was dedicated), the tone of the CD is set as a stroll through the mists and bogs of the English countryside. Songs by Frederick Delius (one featuring the then unappreciated tenor soloist Mark Padmore!), Edward Elgar, various folk songs beautifully arranged for four-part chorus, the 'Five Flower Songs' by Benjamin Britten, and finally the extraordinary 'Three Shakespeare Songs' set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams are all included in this generous recital. <
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>Vaughan Williams songs are brief but immaculately written choral works. 'Full fathom five' and 'The cloud-capped towers' find all the mystery in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' while 'Over hill, over dale' is the quintessential musical rendering of the fairies frolics from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. Rutter and the Cambridge Singers are splendid and the acoustic of the recording hall adds just the right amount of resonance to complete the magic of these songs. Highly recommended! Grady Harp, January 07
Yes, Indeed there is! Right Here!
Gorgeous, acapella choral music. The Cambridge Singers really can sing something besides John Rutter! English Choral sounds at their very best, with magical harmonic resolutions that transcend all emotion. I've listened to it at least 150 times and could never possibly tire of it!
Outstanding music, very well sung
This is a wonderful album, featuring some of the best choral music ever to come out of England, and undoubtedly one of the best recordings I have heard from the Cambridge Singers. The folk song arrangements are clever and apt (though I agree with another reviewer's comment that the soloist in 'Brigg Fair' does not really do it justice), and the Shakespeare songs by Vaughan Williams are a vital part of the choral repertoire.
However, it was Elgar's rarely-sung title track that impressed me the most. It is set for 8-part choir, with the men in one key and the women a semitone higher! Now that may sound like it couldn't possibly work, but believe me, the result is inspired. Using Tennyson's classic text, Elgar weaves an eerie harmonic fabric that manages to maintain a soothing yet somehow unsettled quality. Even at the end, as the word "sleep" echoes back and forth in the two keys, one is never quite sure which gender will 'resolve' the conversation and let the listener lie. It's a masterpiece, and only a really good choir could hope to pull it off.
Another highlight is a very well known work, Stanford's 'The Blue Bird', which is extremely well-sung. In fact, I have yet to hear a recorded version of this that is as brilliantly lethargic or controlled.
At times we might desire a more Eastern-European 'bite' to the singing tone (I do not mean to imply that this is just a glorified cathedral choir with pure, non-vibrato projection - far from it!), but this is THEIR music after all, and it has all the more beauty for the treatment it has been given here.