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"VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SONGS".(John Mark Ainsley)(Brief Article)(Review)
John Mark Ainsley [] "VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SONGS" Along the Field, On Wenlock Edge, Merciless Beauty, Ten Blake Songs, and other songs. With Watkins, cello; Hulse, oboe; Brown, piano; the Nash Ensemble. Texts. Hyperion CDA67168
From Hyperion comes an absorbing, thoughtfully assembled recital of songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, spanning more than fifty years of the famously long-lived composer's career. Tying the program together is the illustrious provenance of the verses Vaughan Williams chose to set, themselves encompassing a generous expanse of time and range of styles: from a group of exceptionally lovely rondels by Chaucer to the familiar poems by Housman that inspired the major cycles On Wenlock Edge and Along the Field.
With their intricate texts and generally spare accompaniments, these songs demand an interpreter of intelligence and refinement, and such they find in John Mark Ainsley. To be sure, listeners who require visceral thrills and machismo from their singers will likely deem this recording rather tepid fare. Elegant, gentlemanly, possessed of a cultivated lyric tenor voice, Ainsley is not at his best when contending with the ...
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