Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel & The House of Life
£20.00
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor); David Willison piano
HTGCD 128-29 – 5060332663118
Product information:
These celebrated recordings of Anthony Rolfe Johnson performing English song with David Willison at the piano, hail from the mid-1970s. Rolfe Johnson was at the beginning of his career and the voice is light, dextrous and youthful. original tapes in the BBC archives and have been sensitively re-mastered.
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; The House of Life
Butterworth: Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’
John Ireland: The Land of Lost Content
Peter Warlock: A Prayer to St. Anthony (Arthur Symons)
The Sick Heart (Arthur Symons)
My Own Country (Hilaire Belloc)
Passing By (Bruce Blunt)
Pretty Ring Time (William Shakespeare)
Ivor Gurney: Down the Salley Gardens (W.B. Yeats)
An Epitaph (Walter de la Mare)
Desire in Spring (Francis Ledwidge)
Black Stitchel (Wilfrid Gibson)
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‘Rolfe Johnson’s singing is masterly in so many respects’ Gramophone