Vaughan Williams: Stars of the Night: Songs and violin works

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Wood is a fine musical story-teller, articulating words and melodies with equal sensitivity and care...The melodic architecture emerges clearly in Matthew Trusler's vital performance...Once again,... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2014
Catalogue No: ALBCD018
Label: Albion Records
Length: 71 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Work length23:10

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Roland Wood (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 11 December 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. The Vagabond

Track length3:25

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No. 2. Let Beauty Awake

Track length2:01

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No. 3. The Roadside Fire

Track length2:31

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No. 4. Youth and Love

Track length3:30

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No. 5. In Dreams

Track length2:23

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No. 6. The Infinite Shining Heavens

Track length1:52

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No. 7. Whither Must I Wander?

Track length3:42

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No. 8. Bright Is the Ring of Words

Track length1:41

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No. 9. I Have Trod the Upward and Downward Slope

Track length2:05

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Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong

Work length8:17

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Matthew Trusler (violin), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 29-30 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. Lovely on the Water

Track length1:41

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No. 2. Spurn Point

Track length1:13

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No. 3. Van Dieman's Land

Track length1:33

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No. 4. She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold

Track length1:26

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No. 5. The Lady and the Dragoon

Track length1:25

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No. 6. As I Walked over London Bridge

Track length0:59

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Vaughan Williams: 7 Songs from the Pilgrim's Progress

Work length10:42

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Roland Wood (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 11 December 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1. Watchful's Song

Track length6:15

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No. 2. The Song of Pilgrims

Track length1:51

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No. 3. The Pilgrim's Psalm

Track length2:36

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Vaughan Williams: Violin Concerto in D Minor "Concerto accademico" (Arr. for Violin & Piano)

Work length16:05

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Matthew Trusler (violin), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 29-30 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

I. Allegro pesante

Track length5:31

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II. Adagio

Track length5:51

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III. Presto

Track length4:43

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Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Work length13:23

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Matthew Trusler (violin), Iain Burnside (piano)
Recorded: 29-30 March 2013
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

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This Albion recording from Potton Hall, 2013, includes the world-première recording of Vaughan Williams's violin and piano arrangement of his violin concerto, and an outstanding recording of The Lark Ascending for violin and piano, played by Matthew Trusler and Iain Burnside. Roland Wood returns to record the Songs of Travel and songs from the Pilgrim's Progress.

This recording highlights both Vaughan Williams' skill in setting English poetry and prose to music and his abiding love of the violin, which he described as his 'musical salvation'. We feature settings of both John Bunyan and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside familiar and less well-known works for violin, arranged on this occasion, for violin and piano.

Matthew Trusler has developed a reputation as one of Britain's leading violinists, performing with many of the world's great orchestras, and receiving huge critical acclaim for his diverse recordings. Performing on a bow once owned by Heifetz, Trusler has received particular acclaim for his performances of works from the 20th century. Roland Wood was born in Berkshire and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music with Patrick McGuigan and Robert Alderson, then at the National Opera Studio. In 2012 he sang the title roles of Bunyan and The Pilgrim in an acclaimed new production of Vaughan Williams's 'The Pilgrim's Progress' at ENO. He also features on ALBCD016 Vaughan Williams: The Solent Iain Burnside is a Scottish classical pianist and accompanist, and a former presenter on BBC Radio 3. Following study at Merton College, Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy, in Warsaw he became a freelance pianist, specialising particularly in song repertoire. He has written a musical play A Soldier and a Maker on the life of Ivor Gurney, premiered in 2012.

Iain Burnside also features on ALB001 Vaughan Williams: The Sky shall be our Roof, ALBCD002 Vaughan Williams: Kissing her Hair, ALBCD013 Vaughan Williams: On Christmas Day and ALBCD015 Vaughan Williams: The Sons of the Morning, his first solo piano album.

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Wood is a fine musical story-teller, articulating words and melodies with equal sensitivity and care. The Songs of Travel are the only straightforward work on a disc from the recording label of the Vaughan Williams Society that is otherwise filled with wonderful curiosities and oddities – chamber arrangements of songs from The Pilgrim's Progress and The Lark Ascending by the composer himself, and Constant Lambert's arrangement for violin and piano of Vaughan Williams's Violin Concerto. The musical economy of the latter lends itself particularly well to Lambert's chamber treatment. The melodic architecture emerges clearly in Matthew Trusler's vital performance, which retains folk colours and gestures among straighter classical technique. What The Lark Ascending loses in widescreen scope when reduced for violin and piano, it gains in the rougher, earthier colours that emerge – the husky purity of Trusler's violin against the bell-clarity of Burnside's piano. Once again, Albion Records has given us a treasure trove of a disc full of fresh insights and sideways glances at familiar repertoire. --Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone, Awards Issue 2014

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Awards Issue 2014

Wood is a fine musical story-teller, articulating words and melodies with equal sensitivity and care...The melodic architecture emerges clearly in Matthew Trusler's vital performance...Once again, Albion Records has given us a treasure trove of a disc full of fresh insights and sideways glances at familiar repertoire.

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