Description
- MAUD (Tennyson)
- I hate the dreadful hollow
- A voice by the cedar tree
- She came to the village church
- O let the solid ground
- Birds in the high Hall-garden
- Maud has a garden
- Go not, happy day
- I have led her home
- Come into the garden, Maud
- The fault was mine
- Dead, long dead
- O that ‘twere possible
- Epilogue: My life has crept so long
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH (1885-1916)
- SIX SONGS FROM ‘A SHROPSHIRE LAD’ (A.E. Houseman)
- Loveliest of trees
- When I was one-and-twenty
- Look not in my eyes
- Think no more, lad
- The lads in their hundreds
- Is my team ploughing?
- Twilight, Op. 59 No. 6 (G. Parker) 3.27
- Clapham Town End (Trad. ed. Percy) 3.15
- The River, Op. 60 No. 2 (‘P.D’Alba’) 3.30
- The Shepherd’s Song, Op. 16 No. 1 (B. Pain) 2.44
- Modest and Fair from The Spanish Lady (Jonson) 1.51
- Still to be neat The Spanish Lady (Jonson) 1.53
- Rondel, Op. 16 No. 3 (Longfellow, after Froissart) 1.44
- O Salutaris Hostia (ed. Percy Young) 4.41
Total time: 68’58”
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Performance: *****
Recording: ****
A masterly interpreter of English song, John Carol Case is caught here very late in his career, though in fine voice.
George Hall, BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2015
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The beautiful drawn-out opening phrases of ‘Loveliest of trees’ immediately instils confidence….. It is worth buying the disc for this mini-cycle alone.
Tully Potter, MusicWeb International, November 2015