James Geer & Ronald Woodley – Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Volume 2 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

James Geer & Ronald Woodley – Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Volume 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:20 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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This second of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth presents a further two major song collections by the composer, while bringing to light another selection of songs by his student Elizabeth Maconchy. Her works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composer’s career from the time of her studies with Vaughan Williams in the mid-1920s through to her committed espousal of the British modernist aesthetic by the 1960s and 70s.

The songs are performed by tenor James Geer and pianist Ronald Woodley in this continuation of their long-standing partnership.

Tracklist:
1-01. James Geer – Four Last Songs: I. Procris (02:36)
1-02. James Geer – Four Last Songs: II. Tired (02:15)
1-03. James Geer – Four Last Songs: III. Hands, Eyes, and Heart (01:24)
1-04. James Geer – Four Last Songs: IV. Menelaus (04:16)
1-05. James Geer – The Exequy (04:28)
1-06. James Geer – The Garland: I. The Garland (01:10)
1-07. James Geer – The Garland: II. Old and Young (00:47)
1-08. James Geer – The Garland: III. I Would I Were a Mirror (01:56)
1-09. James Geer – The Garland: IV. No End to Love (02:09)
1-10. James Geer – Sailor’s Song of the Two Balconies (03:41)
1-11. James Geer – The Disillusion (03:30)
1-12. James Geer – The Swallow (01:53)
1-13. James Geer – The Poet-Wooer (02:06)
1-14. James Geer – Sleep Brings Me No Joy (03:36)
1-15. James Geer – In Fountain Court (02:48)
1-16. James Geer – The House of Life: I. Love-Sight (04:25)
1-17. James Geer – The House of Life: II. Silent Noon (04:15)
1-18. James Geer – The House of Life: III. Love’s Minstrels (05:28)
1-19. James Geer – The House of Life: IV. Heart’s Haven (04:12)
1-20. James Geer – The House of Life: V. Death in Love (04:55)
1-21. James Geer – The House of Life: VI. Love’s Last Gift (04:25)
1-22. James Geer – How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza (10:56)

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