Richard Standen, Frederick Stone - The First Songs of Travel (2023)
BAND/ARTIST: Richard Standen, Frederick Stone
- Title: The First Songs of Travel
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Albion Records
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:57:09
- Total Size: 138 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Songs of Travel: I. The Vagabond
02. Songs of Travel: I. Bright is the Ring of Words
03. Songs of Travel: III. The Roadside Fire
04. Songs of Travel: IV. Let Beauty Awake
05. Songs of Travel: V. Youth and Love
06. Songs of Travel: VI. In Dreams
07. Songs of Travel: VII. The Infinite Shining Heavens
08. Songs of Travel: VIII. Whither Must I Wander
09. Silent Noon
10. Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: The Water Mill
11. Linden Lea
12. Three Salt-Water Ballads: I. Port of Many Ships
13. Three Salt-Water Ballads: II. Trade Winds
14. Three Salt-Water Ballads: III. Mother Carey
15. Six Sea Songs: II. Limehouse Reach
16. Six Sea Songs: VII. Sweethearts and Wives
17. Songs of the Sea: I. Drake's Drum
18. Songs of the Sea: V. The Old Superb
19. Three Masefield Ballads: Sea Fever
20. Four by the Clock
21. A Christmas Carol
22. Two True Toper's Tunes to Troll with Trulls and Trollops in a Tavern: I. Captain Stratton's Fancy
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.
01. Songs of Travel: I. The Vagabond
02. Songs of Travel: I. Bright is the Ring of Words
03. Songs of Travel: III. The Roadside Fire
04. Songs of Travel: IV. Let Beauty Awake
05. Songs of Travel: V. Youth and Love
06. Songs of Travel: VI. In Dreams
07. Songs of Travel: VII. The Infinite Shining Heavens
08. Songs of Travel: VIII. Whither Must I Wander
09. Silent Noon
10. Four Poems by Fredegond Shove: The Water Mill
11. Linden Lea
12. Three Salt-Water Ballads: I. Port of Many Ships
13. Three Salt-Water Ballads: II. Trade Winds
14. Three Salt-Water Ballads: III. Mother Carey
15. Six Sea Songs: II. Limehouse Reach
16. Six Sea Songs: VII. Sweethearts and Wives
17. Songs of the Sea: I. Drake's Drum
18. Songs of the Sea: V. The Old Superb
19. Three Masefield Ballads: Sea Fever
20. Four by the Clock
21. A Christmas Carol
22. Two True Toper's Tunes to Troll with Trulls and Trollops in a Tavern: I. Captain Stratton's Fancy
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.
Year 2023 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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