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Booklet-Paginated:Layout 1 7/4/13 4:01 PM Page 1 Solentthe Fifty Years of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams booklet-paginated:Layout 1 7/4/13 4:01 PM Page 1 SolentThe Fifty years of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Three Impressions for Orchestra: Burley Heath, The Solent and Harnham Down Songs of Travel (Book 1) for baritone and orchestra Four Hymns for tenor, viola and strings Incidental Music to The Mayor of Casterbridge Prelude on an Old Carol Tune Andrew Kennedy (tenor) Roland Wood (baritone) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Paul Daniel booklet-paginated:Layout 1 7/4/13 4:01 PM Page 3 The ABOUT ALBION RECORDS Solent Since its formation in 1994, The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society - a registered charity Fifty years of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams - has sought to raise the profile of the composer through publications, seminars and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958) sponsorship of recordings The Society’s successes include the publication of Ursula Vaughan Williams’ autobiography and the sponsorship of significant performances, THREE IMPRESSIONS FOR ORCHESTRA (world première recording) especially of the operas. More recently, the Society has been closely involved with 1 Burley Heath (completed by James Francis Brown) 5’31 2 The Solent 11’46 important premières including the Cambridge (doctoral) Mass, Willow Wood, and The 3 Harnham Down 6’54 Garden of Proserpine. SONGS OF TRAVEL (BOOK 1) arranged for baritone and orchestra by the composer* With over 1,000 members, the Society’s record label, Albion Records, is devoted to 4 The Vagabond 2’57 recordings of rare RVW. Each Albion CD contains at least one world première 5 The Roadside Fire 2’26 6 Bright is the Ring of Words 1’48 recording, and these abound among the many rare and beautiful songs to be found on FOUR HYMNS FOR TENOR, VIOLA OBBLIGATO AND STRINGS** our early recordings, The Sky Shall Be Our Roof and Kissing Her Hair. 7 Lord! Come away ~ Maestoso 3’52 Music in the Heart includes Vaughan Williams conducting his Serenade to Music and we 8 Who is this fair one? ~ Andante moderato 4’43 9 Come Love, come Lord ~ Lento 3’40 have supplemented this with a more recent archive recording. The Garden of 10 Evening Hymn (O Gladsome Light) ~ Andante commoto 3’34 Proserpine, a recording of an early work, spent five weeks in The Specialist Classical 11 WEYHILL FAIR SONG* 0’41 Chart in 2011 and also reached the Classic FM Top Forty. Other releases include INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE (world première recording) Symphony No. 6 arranged for two pianos and Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. On 12 Casterbridge 2’26 Christmas Day, a recording of folk songs and folk carols, was a seasonally popular 13 Intermezzo 2’19 release for Christmas 2011 but is a wonderful recording at any time of year. Finally, in 14 Weyhill Fair (A to E) 1’57 2012 we issued Sons of the Morning, a CD of piano music by Vaughan Williams and 15 PRELUDE ON AN OLD CAROL TUNE 5’24 Gurney including the world première of Job, arranged by Vally Lasker. The pianist is 57’12 Iain Burnside in his first solo recording. * Roland Wood (baritone) ** Andrew Kennedy (tenor) ** Nicholas Bootiman (viola) For further information visit www.albionrecords.org or www.rvwsociety.com Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (leader Thelma Handy) Paul Daniel 2 23 booklet-paginated:Layout 1 7/4/13 4:01 PM Page 5 The Solent PRODUCTION CREDITS Fifty Years of Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Executive Producer: Stephen Connock MBE A and R Manager: Charles Padley Vaughan Williams was just thirty when he composed The Solent in 1902 and eighty Fulfillment: Mark and Sue Hammett Booklet notes: Stephen Connock when he completed the Prelude on an Old Carol Tune in 1952. Over this astonishing period, a time of two World Wars and unprecedented social, economic and political Recorded at The Friary, Liverpool on 2-3 April, 2013 change, Vaughan Williams’ music remained broadly consistent. Of course, he grew in Albion Records would like to thank staff of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for their help and support throughout this recording confidence and technical accomplishment and both folk song and the period of study with Ravel in early 1908 added colour and a fresh texture to his music. What was Producer: Andrew Walton Engineer: Mike Clements remarkable, however, was the consistency of style – from the visionary melody that opens The Solent to the richly harmonised setting of the carol On Christmas Night the Cover picture: The Needles off the coast of the Isle of Wight, on the Western Solent. Copyright Fleur Piercy and reproduced with permission. Joy-Bells Ring of 1952 – the music is recognisably Vaughan Williams. Over this fifty years, another feature remains constant and that is Vaughan Williams’ WITH THANKS preoccupation with life as a spiritual and personal journey, one fraught with danger Albion Records is deeply grateful to Michael Kennedy (Chairman), Hugh Cobbe (Director) and all and often ending in tragedy, but showing noble and courageous human endeavour in the Trustees of the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust without whose steadfast and generous support the face of fate and adversity as we progress towards ‘the Unknown Region’. This this recording would not have been possible. focus, sometimes using the sea as a metaphor for the perils of the journey, is shown in We would also like to warmly acknowledge the support of the following individual sponsors: his lifelong obsession with Bunyan’s Christian as he journeys toward the Celestial City John and Ann Barr Rob Furneaux Julian P. Ochrymowych in The Pilgrim’s Progress. Walt Whitman, Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy added depth Norman Biggs Michael Gainsford Charles Paterson to this search; the poignant fate of Tess moved Vaughan Williams deeply throughout Trevor Clinch Peter Gilliver Rory Beaumont Parfitt his long life. So too did the tragic endeavour of Captain Scott’s expedition to the Simon and Laura Coombs Michael Greenwald Tom Render Ann and Peter Edmonds Michael Greer Philip Robson Antarctic. That The Solent is prefaced with a quote from a Philip Marston poem adds Tatyana Evagorou Michael Holyoake Rikky Rooksby another layer – Marston’s life was an uplifting example of remarkable achievement Len Evans Robert A. Jones Lord David Trimble against a background of a succession of personal tragedies. Robert Field Mike Marsh Hector Walker John Francis Kevin Mitchell Alan Watkins The span of music presented here demonstrates two other elements of Vaughan Williams’ character. The first is his depth of literary understanding, including, on this CD alone, settings or references to Philip Marston, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jeremy Taylor, Dr Isaac Watts, Richard Crashaw, Robert Bridges and 22 3 booklet-paginated:Layout 1 7/4/13 4:01 PM Page 7 Thomas Hardy. The second element was his knowledge and love of the English ANDREW KENNEDY countryside. He knew the New Forest well and often took holidays in the Salisbury area, near to Harnham Down and The Solent. The Three Impressions for Orchestra Andrew Kennedy was born in Ashington, recorded here for the first time were followed by In the Fen Country (1904) and three Northumberland and was a chorister at Durham Norfolk Rhapsodies (1906 – only two survive). His knowledge of the English landscape Cathedral before studying at King’s College, Cambridge was deepened by his folk-song collecting, in every corner of the country, from 1904. All and the Royal College of Music in London. Andrew has this was, of course, part of Vaughan Williams’ stated desire to create and sustain a ‘true won numerous prizes and awards including the 2005 school of English music’, an aim he enthusiastically shared with Gustav Holst whose BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital own Cotswold Symphony had been written in March, 1902. Prize. He won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists’ Award in 2006. THREE IMPRESSIONS FOR ORCHESTRA Operatic roles include Tamino (The Magic Flute) for 1 BURLEY HEATH (edited and completed by James Francis Brown) English National Opera, Tom Rakewell (The Rake’s In 1902 and 1903, Vaughan Williams was contemplating writing four impressions for Progress) for La Scala, Milan, La Monnaie, Brussels and orchestra to be called In the New Forest of which Burley Heath was the first. Burley is a Opera de Lyon – also released on DVD – and Max (Der Freischutz) at Opera local village surrounded by open heathland. Comique, Paris under Sir John Eliot Gardiner. His concert engagements take him across the world. The aspiring composer had already shown in his Garden of Proserpine (1899) and the Heroic Elegy and Triumphal Epilogue (1900–1) an ability to work with a large-scale Equally passionate about the song repertoire, Andrew gives numerous recitals in orchestra. These works were before his enthusiasm for folk-song began to influence his Europe. His fast-growing discography embraces four solo albums, including Vaughan music. Burley Heath shows, perhaps for the first time, something of the colour and Williams’ On Wenlock Edge for Signum Classics. contours of folk-song being felt in a Vaughan Williams composition. Overall, the work remains more influenced by Brahms than was the case with, say, In the Fen Country of a few years later. The opening sombre horn passages, marked misterioso, accompanied only by ‘cellos and double bass, suggests dawn over the Heath and are followed by a catchy, lilting melody first heard on the clarinet but later taken up by the strings in a way that evokes daylight and a windy day across the heather. After a recapitulation of the opening melodies, a new section starts with the solo viola and is in lighter vein, more overtly Brahmsian. The sun shines fully on Burley Heath before the horn and 4 21 booklet-paginated:Layout 1 7/4/13 4:01 PM Page 9 ROLAND WOOD double basses return, with an air of mystery, perhaps at dusk, as the work ends with the solo viola.
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