Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
RODERICK WILLIAMS, baritone, CHRISTOPHER GLYNN, piano Playhouse
About
IRELAND Summer Schemes; Down by the Salley Gardens; We’ll to the woods no more; Sea Fever; The Vagabond; Youth’s Spring Tribute
CLARKE Down by the Salley Gardens; The Cloths of Heaven; The Seal Man
BOYLE A Song of Enchantment; The Joy of Earth
TIMBLE Green Rain; My grief on the sea
WOOD I’d roam the world over with you
GURNEY Down by the Salley Gardens
HEAD Tewkesbury Road
F WALEY-COHEN The Moon, the Moss & the Mushrooms (Music in the Round co-commission)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Songs of Travel
Music in the Round’s Singer-in-Residence Roderick Williams returns with a programme of heartrendingly beautiful English song, including Vaughan Williams’ glorious cycle Songs of Travel.
This musical voyage around our island home, performed by Roderick and pianist Christopher Glynn, two of the most charming and gifted musicians the country has produced, also includes a cosmically titled new commission from Freya Waley-Cohen inspired by the Exmoor landscape and its fairy-tale folklore.
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Reviews
“Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is revelatory.”
5 Stars
“Williams proved the ideal guide to this repertoire, his phrasing, dramatic physicality and illuminating way with the text bringing fresh insights to old favourites... aided and abetted throughout by Christopher Glynn’s poised and poetic piano playing.”