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A hefty bass-baritone in every sense, he's inevitably compared with Bryn Terfel, but his voice seems darker and somewhat smoother, less given to pianissimi but still expressive...Songs of Travel... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jul 2012
Catalogue No: BISSACD1610
Label: BIS
Length: 78 minutes

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Butterworth, G: Bredon Hill and other songs

Work length18:16

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1, Bredon Hill

Track length3:26

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No. 2, O Fair enough Are Sky and Plain

Track length2:05

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No. 3, When the Lad for the Longing Sighs

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No. 4, On the Idle Hill of Summer

Track length4:34

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No. 5, With Rue My Heart Is Laden

Track length5:09

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Gurney: In Flanders

Work length5:02

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Gurney: Severn Meadows

Work length3:19

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Gurney: Even such is time

Work length2:21

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Gurney: By a bierside

Work length3:14

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Butterworth, G: A Shropshire Lad - six songs

Work length12:43

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1, Loveliest of Trees

Track length2:26

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No. 2, When I was one-and-twenty

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No. 3, Look Not in My Eyes

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No. 4, Think no more, Lad

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No. 5, The Lads in their Hundreds

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No. 6, Is My Team Ploughing?

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Gurney: The twa corbies

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Work length25:45

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 1, The Vagabond

Track length3:14

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No. 2, Let Beauty Awake

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No. 3, The Roadside Fire

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No. 4, Youth and Love

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No. 5, In Dreams

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No. 6, The Infinite Shining Heavens

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No. 7, Whither Must I Wander?

Track length3:50

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No. 8, Bright Is the Ring of Words

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

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Excerpt, Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs

Work length3:54

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James Rutherford, Eugene Asti
Recorded: September, December 2008
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Saxumdham, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom

No. 4, Sleep

Track length3:54

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James Rutherford, with Eugene Asti at the piano, here records his first disc for BIS, presenting a programme of works from composers all influenced greatly by the First World War.

George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad takes texts from A.E. Housman’s poems of young men facing death.

Vaughan Williams turned to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, for his Songs of Travel, a set of nine songs in which the wanderer-narrator philosophically accepts the mixture of joys and sorrows offered to him along the road.

Gurney – the youngest of the three composers – was also a poet, and in Severn Meadows expressed his longing for home in both text and music. Severn Meadows was composed during Gurney’s time in the trenches.

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December 2012

A hefty bass-baritone in every sense, he's inevitably compared with Bryn Terfel, but his voice seems darker and somewhat smoother, less given to pianissimi but still expressive...Songs of Travel has a notably virile energy, reinforced by veteran accompanist Eugene Asti's unusually driven reading...A very worthwhile recital.

November 2012

Rutherford brings his Wagnerian bass-baritone to bear on the song repertoire with uncommon skill and sensitivity...The only serious drawback comes at the top of the voice, where Wagnerian bluster and a slow vibrato sometimes detract from the beauty of his singing...but Rutherford has given notice of a very appreciable talent for song. With accompaniments of exemplary precision, this disc is highly recommended.

September 2012

Rutherford's full tone, dark, possibly bass-baritone rather than BIS's designation of baritone, is released with the vigour to resemble somebody, here the vagabond, striding purposefully along the lane...Asti's playing gels with Rutherford's singing in these Gurney songs, as it does in the other pieces...Rutherford's enunciation is all one could wish for.

15th August 2012

The quality of the Gurney songs may be a bit uneven, but Rutherford handles them all with great tact, his tone fined down, his diction immaculate, and without a hint of extraneous pathos. In the authentically great Butterworth sets Rutherford's approach is exemplary.

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