Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge - Chandos: CHAN10465 - CD or download

There's more to Padmore's performance: fine tone, a strong sense of pitch, crystal clear enunciation and a wonderful feeling for long lines. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2008
Catalogue No: CHAN10465
Label: Chandos
Length: 59 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge

Work length22:02

$6.85

$8.45

Mark Padmore, Alison Dods, Schubert Ensemble

I. On Wenlock Edge

Track length3:42

$1.05

$1.30

II. From far, from eve and morning

Track length2:35

$1.05

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III. Is my team ploughing?

Track length3:37

$1.05

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IV. Oh, when I was in love with you

Track length0:49

$1.05

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V. Bredon Hill

Track length7:47

$1.60

$1.95

VI. Clun

Track length3:32

$1.05

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Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet

Work length29:36

$4.80

$5.85

Schubert Ensemble

I. Allegro con fuoco

Track length9:40

$1.60

$1.95

II. Andante

Track length10:00

$1.60

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III. Fantasia quasi variazioni. Moderato

Track length9:56

$1.60

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Vaughan Williams: Romance & Pastorale for violin & piano

Work length8:37

$2.10

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Schubert Ensemble

I. Romance

Track length5:05

$1.05

$1.30

II. Pastorale

Track length3:32

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$1.30

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On Wenlock Edge is a song cycle for tenor, piano and string quartet, published in 1909, setting six poems from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. Although there have been a number of recordings of this song cycle recently, this disc features the remarkable voice of Mark Padmore and uniquely adds the early Piano Quintet in C minor, recently released for performance by the composer’s widow and published in 2002, and also the Romance and Pastorale, two similarly early, brief lyric pieces for violin and piano published in 1923. The Quintet was written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double-bass – as was Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet. It is a wonderful early work, full of passion and melodic invention.

This recording marks the Schubert Ensemble’s debut on Chandos and also its 25th anniversary. The Ensemble has always been at the forefront of British chamber music performance and is now firmly established as one of the world’s leading exponents of music for piano and strings.

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May 2008

There's more to Padmore's performance: fine tone, a strong sense of pitch, crystal clear enunciation and a wonderful feeling for long lines.

June 2008

Padmore is something special in Wenlock, while the Quintet is striking.

4th May 2008

Fifty years after his death, Vaughan Williams is accorded the affectionate respect he deserves in this version of his poignant rural song cycle by one of our finest dramatic tenors, Mark Padmore. AE Housman's words have rarely rung so clearly above the haunting accompaniment of piano and quartet, notably in the central song 'Is my team still ploughing?'

19th April 2008

It is hard not to see Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge as the first great English song cycle, especially when its heart and soul come to the fore in performances such as this one. AE Housman's combination of folk-like innocence and knowing irony is powerfully conveyed in the singing of Mark Padmore.

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