Stephen Varcoe

Choir of King's College, Cambridge

John Wells

David Willcocks

Carols from King's

Sussex Carol (Christmas Carol): "On Christmas night all Christians sing" (Arr. Philip Ledger)

And All in the Morning

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (English Carol, arr. David Willcocks)

The Three Kings (After "Die Könige", No. 3 from Peter Cornelius' "Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8")

The Cherry-Tree Carol (English Christmas Carol, arr. David Willcocks)

All My Heart This Night Rejoices (After a Lutheran Hymnal)

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Arr. Willcocks, "Silent Night")

Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary (After an Italian Carol from the 17th Century, arr. Charles Wood)

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. David Willcocks)

Ding dong! Merrily on High (After a French Noel from the 16th Century, arr. David Willcocks)

I Saw a Maiden (After a Basque Noel, arr. Edgar Pettman)

In the Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol): "In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan"

James Ottaway

Mary Walked Through a Wood of Thorn (After an German Old Christmas Carol)

The Lord At First Did Adam Make (Arr. David Willcocks)

Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem, SSWV 292 - No. 9 from "Geistliche Konzerte III", 1635: "A child is born in Bethlehem" (Arr. David Willcocks)

A Babe Is Born I Wys (After an English Carol from 15th Century)

Musae Sioniae, Theil 6: No. 85, Psallite unigenito (Pt. 1)

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Christmas Carol, arr. David Willcocks)

Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

Choral Music of David Willcocks

Nancy Argenta

Catherine Denley

Ashley Stafford

Vivaldi: Gloria / Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus

Eiddwen Harrhy

Timothy Penrose

Wynford Evans

Purcell: The Fairy Queen

Geraldine McGreevy

Roger Vignoles

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Songs

Felicity Lott

William Burden

Chabrier: Songs (Hyperion French Song Edition)

John Davies

Victoria Soames Samek

English Serenata

Thea Musgrave: Chamber Music for Clarinet, Vol. 2 – The Fall of Narcissus

Clifford Benson


Stephen Varcoe专辑介绍：“Stanford's Songs of the Sea have kept the British baritone afloat for the best part of a century.
Drake's hammock and the barnacles of The Old Superb used to be familiar in parlours and drawing- rooms throughout the land. The cries of Captain Keats and his crew ('“Ship ahoy!” a hundred times a day'), the alliterative mysteries of 'Fetter and Faith … Faggot and Father' and the assurance that Drake even now was 'ware and waking' were assimilated almost as the words of folksongs, while the music seemed part of our flesh and blood. They are splendid songs, and the set of five constitutes a small masterpiece.
Sceptical readers should try them again in this new recording. Stephen Varcoe and Clifford Benson give a most sensitive performance, not emasculated but treating them thoughtfully.
The two quieter songs, 'Outward Bound' and 'Homeward Bound', become more central, better integrated, than usual, and the very fact that this is the solo version, without the male-voice chorus added later, makes it easier to hear them (the whole set) as a personal utterance. With 'Drake's Drum', for instance, Varcoe is very intent upon seeing sense, where others have often sought for little beyond a generalised patriotic earnestness. These, perhaps, are TheSongs of the Sea as Captain Edward Fairfax Vere might have sung them.
In reviewing the first volume, Michael Oliver wrote of the difficulty of reconciling the Irishman and the Brahmsian in Stanford: the melodic vein of the one seemed at odds with the harmonic language of the other. The occasions here when a dichotomy of style does cause trouble are found in the Songs of Faith. Whitman's auto-intoxication incites Stanford to indulge in grandiose gestures that aren't natural to him at all. He's much more at home with Shakespeare and Dekker, or, for that matter, with Quiller-Couch and Winifred M Letts, whose A Fire of Turf provides him with poems for some masterly settings. All are beautifully performed by these excellent artists.”


Stanford: Songs, Vol. 2

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