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BAKER, JANET: English Song Anthology
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English Song Anthology
Songs of:
Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Head, Armstrong-Gibb, Dunhill, Warlock, Howells, Gurney and Finzi
Janet Baker, voice
Martin Isepp, piano
| Track Listing | Time | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Call (1911, from Five Mystical Songs) (Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958) | 2:23 | |
| 2 | Youth and Love (1904, Songs of Travel) (Vaughan Williams) | 3:12 | |
| 3 | A Thanksgiving (1938) (John Ireland 1879-1962) | 1:53 |  |
| 4 | Her Song (1925, Songs to Thomas Hardy Poems) (Ireland) | 3:10 | |
| 5 | A Piper (1923) (Michael Dewar Head 1900-76) | 1:21 | |
| 6 | This is a Sacred City (By a Bierside) (1924) (Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, 1889-1960) | 2:19 | |
| 7 | Love is a Sickness, Op.44/1 (1922) (Armstrong Gibbs) | 1:43 | |
| 8 | The Cloths of Heaven, Op.30/3 (1916?) (Thomas Frederick Dunhill, 1877-1946) | 2:21 | |
| 9 | Balulalow (trad, 16th Cent. arr Peter Warlock) (1894-1930) | 1:57 | |
| 10 | Youth (1928) (Peter Warlock) | 1:30 | |
| 11 | KIng David (1921) (Herbert Howells, 1892-1983) | 4:22 | |
| 12 | Come Sing and Dance (1928) (Howells) | 3:31 | |
| 13 | Sleep (from 5 Elizabethan Songs) (Ivor Gurney, 1890-1937) | 2:59 | |
| 14 | I Will Go with My Father a-ploughing (Gurney) | 2:50 | |
| 15 | To the Queen of heaven (Thomas Dunhill) from Let us Garlands Bring, Op.18, 1942)(Gerald Finzi, 1901-56) | 2:18 | |
| 16 | Come away, come away, Death | 3:40 | |
| 17 | It was a lover and his kiss | 2:37 |
"The great thing is that the records are back again and 'glorious' is indeed the word, for both (ie also "Janet Baker sings Lieder" RRC 1225).. The voice is absolutely radiant, the glow of youth upon it: firm, resonant, superbly controlled, and strikingly individual. The selection of songs couldn't be better; all are gems, especially the two by Howells, which are also two of the most inspired in performance. I found Ivor Gurney's I will go with my father a-ploughing almost unaccountably moving, and Dame Janet's singing of Finzi's Come away, death shows her already the mistress of the art of softening and colouring the voice to the most lovely effect...Martin Isepp's playing is always sympathetic and particularly good in Warlock songs. Balance favours the voice...but these are glorious discs"
J.B. Steane, Gramophone