Folk Songs of the British Isles
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0668
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th May 2023
Contents
Works
Blaydon RacesBlow the Wind Southerly
Bugail Aberdyfi
By the Short Cut to the Rosses
Can Ye Sew Cushions
Can yr Arad Goch
Dance te Thi Daddy
Down by the Salley Gardens
Drink to me only with thine eyes
English Folk Song
Give Me Your Hand
My Little Welsh Home
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
Myfanwy
Oliver Cromwell
She moved through the fair
Si Bheag Si Mor
Skye Boat Song
Sospan Fach
Sweet Polly Oliver
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Last Rose of Summer
The Oak and the Ash (A North Country Lass)
The Rowan Tree
Ye Banks and Braes
Song for Gwyn
Artists
Janis Kelly (soprano)Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano)
Maria Jagusz (mezzo-soprano)
Elaine Delmar (jazz singer)
Wynne Evans (tenor)
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Mark Llewelyn Evans (baritone)
Kevin Whately (baritone)
Fiona Kelly (flute)
Jean Kelly (harp)
Caroline McCausland (voice, guitar)
Michael Pollock (piano)
John Wilson (piano)
Works
Blaydon RacesBlow the Wind Southerly
Bugail Aberdyfi
By the Short Cut to the Rosses
Can Ye Sew Cushions
Can yr Arad Goch
Dance te Thi Daddy
Down by the Salley Gardens
Drink to me only with thine eyes
English Folk Song
Give Me Your Hand
My Little Welsh Home
My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose
Myfanwy
Oliver Cromwell
She moved through the fair
Si Bheag Si Mor
Skye Boat Song
Sospan Fach
Sweet Polly Oliver
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
The Lark in the Clear Air
The Last Rose of Summer
The Oak and the Ash (A North Country Lass)
The Rowan Tree
Ye Banks and Braes
Song for Gwyn
Artists
Janis Kelly (soprano)Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano)
Maria Jagusz (mezzo-soprano)
Elaine Delmar (jazz singer)
Wynne Evans (tenor)
Nicky Spence (tenor)
Mark Llewelyn Evans (baritone)
Kevin Whately (baritone)
Fiona Kelly (flute)
Jean Kelly (harp)
Caroline McCausland (voice, guitar)
Michael Pollock (piano)
John Wilson (piano)
About
Celebrating the “living, breathing heritage of British and Irish folksong down the ages”, the 27-track recital features soprano Janis Kelly, mezzos Yvonne Howard and Maria Jagusz, tenors Nicky Spence and Wynne Evans, baritone Mark Llewelyn Evans, jazz doyenne Elaine Delmar and actor-singer Kevin Whately.
Fiona Kelly (flute), Jean Kelly (harp) and pianists Michael Pollock and John Wilson provide instrumental contributions with singer Caroline McCausland accompanying herself on guitar.
Much-loved songs include She Moved Through the Fair, The Last Rose of Summer, The Foggy, Foggy Dew and Down by the Salley Gardens.
Local colour is provided by songs such as Blaydon Races, Skye Boat Song, Sospan Fach and The Oak and the Ash while the entirely new Song for Gwyn (words by Christopher Morley, music by John Wilson) tributes Gwyn Williams, former Principal Viola with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which he joined in 1965 and where he played for conductors Hugo Rignold, Louis Frémaux and Sir Simon Rattle.
Royalties will be donated to the Gwyn Williams Bursary Fund which supports young violists at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and endows three viola chairs in the CBSO Youth Orchestra.
SOMM’s long commitment to British vocal music includes the acclaimed three-volume One Hundred Years of British Song by James Gilchrist and Nathan Williamson (SOMMCD0621, 0636, 0646), two discs of Parry’s English Lyrics (SOMMCD257, 270), volumes by Eric Coates (SOMMCD 0192), Ethel Smyth (SOMMCD0611) and a British song recital by Kathleen Ferrier (ARIADNE5010).
Recent releases include a first volume of songs by Stephen Dodgson (The Peasant Poet, SOMMCD0659) and Robert Matthew-Walker’s A Bad Night in Los Angeles (SOMMCD0662), hailed by MusicWeb International as “individual and accessible but with a sophistication and craft that repays attentive listening”.
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