Love’s Old Sweet Song: Songs from British composers, 1823-1945

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Release Date: 2nd Feb 2015
Catalogue No: CHRCD092
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 79 minutes

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Coates, E: Bird Song at Eventide

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Kathryn Rudge, James Baillieu

Murray, A: I'll walk beside you

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Molloy: Love's old sweet song

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Novello: We'll Gather Lilacs (from Perchance to Dream)

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Browne, W D: To Gratiana dancing and singing

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Quilter: Elizabethen Lyrics, Op. 12

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I. Weep You No More

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II. My Life's Delight

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III. Damask Roses

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IV. Faithless Shepherdess

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V. Brown is My Love

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VI. By a Fountainside

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VII. Fair House of Joy

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Elgar: Pleading, Op. 48 No. 1

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Gurney: Severn Meadows

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Gurney: By a bierside

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Coates, E: I heard you singing

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Wood, Haydn: Roses of Picardy

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Novello: My Life Belongs to You

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Elgar: Canto Popolare (In Moonlight)

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Quilter: Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley)

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Wood, Haydn: Brown Bird Singing

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Elgar: Speak, Music, Op. 41, No. 2

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Bridge: Thy hand in mine

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Bridge: Where she lies asleep, H 114

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Bridge: Love went a-riding

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Britten: Last Rose of Summer

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Kathryn Rudge presents a recital disc of songs and ballads in English, written between 1823 and 1945 by British composers whose lives were affected by the great war.

Amongst the selection of songs are nostalgic gems by Eric Coates, Alan Murray, Ivor Novello (We’ll Gather Lilacs) and Haydn Wood’s famous songs of the First World War, Roses of Picardy.

Also included are Roger Quilter’s beautifully melodic Seven Elizabethan Songs and some passionate songs by Edward Elgar, written prior to the outbreak of WW1. Works composed by serving WW1 soldiers include: William Denis Brown (To Gratiana Dancing and Singing) and Ivor Gurney’s haunting compositions from the trenches, Severn Meadows and By a Bierside.

The selection concludes with Frank Bridge’s dramatic Love went a-Riding (1914) and Benjamin Britten’s setting of the timeless Last Rose of Summer.

Kathryn writes "The sentiments of these pieces still resonate strongly in our lives today, never more so than when we remember them in relation to the events of the past". These songs are often dismissed in modern times as being simply 'sentimental' and the stuff of Victorian and Edwardian drawing rooms, but at the heart of the music is something of value.

Kathryn Rudge is a highly acclaimed young mezzo-soprano who studied at the RNCM and received numerous awards and prizes, including a Kathleen Ferrier Bursary. She is joined on this recording by James Baillieu, a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award winner in 2012, Royal Academy of Music Professor of piano and described by the Daily Telegraph as 'in a class of his own'.

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