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Along the Field/on Wenlock Edg

~ Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), John Mark Ainsley (Performer), Nash Ensemble (Performer)
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1. Merciless Beauty: Your Eyen Two
2. Merciless Beauty: So Hath Your Beauty
3. Merciless Beauty: Since I From Love
4. Two English Folksongs: Searching For Lambs
5. Two English Folksongs: The Lawyer
6. Ten Blake Songs: Infant Joy
7. Ten Blake Songs: A Poison Tree
8. Ten Blake Songs: The Piper
9. Ten Blake Songs: London
10. Ten Blake Songs: The Lamb
11. Ten Blake Songs: The Shepherd
12. Ten Blake Songs: Ah, Sun-Flower
13. Ten Blake Songs: Cruelty Has A Human Heart
14. Ten Blake Songs: The Divine Image
15. Ten Blake Songs: Eternity
16. Along The Field: We'll To The Woods No More
17. Along The Field
18. Along The Field: The Half-Moon Westers Low
19. Along The Field: In The Morning
20. Along The Field: The Sigh That Heaves The Grasses
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On this CD:
  1. Merciless Beauty, rondels (3) for soprano or tenor, 2 violins, & cello
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with John Mark Ainsley, Nash Ensemble

  2. English Folksongs (2) for voice & violin
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with John Mark Ainsley, Nash Ensemble

  3. Blake Songs (10) for voice & oboe
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with John Mark Ainsley, Nash Ensemble

  4. Along the Field, song cycle for voice & violin
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with John Mark Ainsley, Nash Ensemble

  5. On Wenlock Edge, song cycle for tenor, piano, & string quartet (or tenor & orchestra)
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with John Mark Ainsley, Nash Ensemble

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We do not hear much about Vaughan Williams' songs. For many people, anything lyrical and English is dismissed as "cowpat" music, and while Vaughan Williams is generally celebrated for his symphonies, his song settings have never gained wide acceptance, with the exception of the Songs of Travel and a handful of individual songs. In its 20-year history, the Hyperion label has done great work in directing us towards unjustly neglected areas of repertoire, and the label could have no better champion here than John Mark Ainsley. With beautifully sensitive playing from the members of the Nash Ensemble, his clean, mellifluous tenor draws us in to the hidden riches of this marvellous music. The CD would be worth it just for the Ten Blake Songs. They have perhaps been overshadowed by the Britten settings but their haunting beauty--seven with oboe, three unaccompanied--stays with you long after the disc is back on the shelf. But then you could probably say the same about Along the Field and On Wenlock Edge. Any song-lovers with an ear for Vaughan Williams are unlikely to be disappointed by any one of the 29 songs that make up this collection. --Keith Clarke

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incomparable singing of English music, Oct 4 2001
This notable recording is a welcome addition to John Mark Ainsley's catalogue of English music; his lovely, cultivated yet heartfelt voice is heard to advantage throughout the disc, wonderfully supported by the Nash Ensemble. "On Wenlock Edge" is here given the best recorded performance I know; it is superbly sung and played, with "Bredon Hill" being an especially high point, from the lovely rising phrase of the first line through the drama of the central section and the poignancy of "And would not wait for me." "Is My Team Ploughing?" is sung with real mastery; dramatic without hand-wringing, melancholy without melodrama, it is a perfect example of the art of a singer unequalled today in the interpretation of English song.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Blake Songs are the highlight, Feb 18 2001
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I bought this recording because I adore the Blake songs and wished to have a recording of them at long last, and these are without question the highlight of this CD for me. I enjoy all the other songs, and Mr. Ainsley sings in tune with a beautiful tone, but they tend to blend together into one long opus.
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