The First Songs of Travel

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Release Date: 23rd Jun 2023
Catalogue No: ALBCD055
Label: Albion Records
Length: 57 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon

Work length4:17

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea

Work length2:35

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

Mallinson: Four by the Clock

Work length2:12

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

Davidson, Malcolm: A Christmas Carol

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Work length20:33

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

I. The Vagabond

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I. Bright is the Ring of Words

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III. The Roadside Fire

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IV. Let Beauty Awake

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V. Youth and Love

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VI. In Dreams

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VII. The Infinite Shining Heavens

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VIII. Whither Must I Wander

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Vaughan Williams: Four Poems by Fredegond Shove

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

The Water Mill

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Keel: Salt-Water Ballads (3)

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

I. Port of Many Ships

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II. Trade Winds

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III. Mother Carey

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Excerpt, Head, M: Sea Songs (6)

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

II. Limehouse Reach

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VII. Sweethearts and Wives

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Excerpt, Stanford: Songs of the Sea, Op. 91

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

I. Drake's Drum

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V. The Old Superb

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Ireland: 3 Masefield Ballads

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

Sea Fever

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Warlock: Two True Toper's Tunes to Troll with Trulls and Trollops in a Tavern

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Richard Standen, Frederick Stone

I. Captain Stratton's Fancy

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This pioneering 1954 Westminster LP recital by Richard Standen (bass-baritone), accompanied by Frederick Stone (piano), has been remastered for Albion Records by Ronald Grames in excellent sound and issued on ALBCD055.

This was the first recording of the (then) entire Songs of Travel and includes premiere recordings of five of the songs. We now know the full cycle of nine songs, but only eight of them were published in the composer's lifetime. The ninth song was not found until after the composer's death, some four years after this recording was made. Standen's performance of Songs of Travel was highly regarded by Vaughan Williams.

Richard Standen lived from 1912 to 1987. He appeared on many recital and concert broadcasts on the BBC and soloed in the Bach passions under Vaughan Williams's baton. He was a popular soloist in choral festivals throughout Great Britain and the European continent during 25 years of active performing, as well as a popular song recitalist. For 20 years he was a well-regarded professor of voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, beginning in 1963.

Frederick Stone is only known today as Kathleen Ferrier's accompanist on a frequently reissued recital disc, but he had a remarkable 30-year career as a staff accompanist for the BBC and appeared in hundreds of broadcasts with many of the great and near-great performers of his time. This release pays homage to an artist who, sadly now almost forgotten, should be much better known.

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