Scott Robert Shaw's debut "The English Tenor" takes us on a beautifully performed journey through a who's who of great English composers and their vocal works. The names Ivor Gurney, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Roger Quilter are synonymous with English Song, and a Golden Age of British music. The wide variety of accompanying instruments and artists, the broad range of text settings and the mix of cornerstone works of the repertoire alongside lesser-known cycles make "The English Tenor" a thrilling debut album.
Works:
•Ivor Gurney: Orpheus
•Ivor Gurney: Tears
•Ivor Gurney:Under the Greenwood Tree
• Ivor Gurney:Sleep; Spring
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: We'll to the Woods no More
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: Along the Field
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Half-Moon Westers Low
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: In the Morning
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Sigh that Heaves the Grasses
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: Good-Bye
•Ralph Vaughan Williams: Francy's Knell
Ralph Vaughan Williams: With Rue my Heart is Laden
•Roger Quilter: Atumn Evening
•Roger Quilter: April
•Roger Quilter: A Last Year's Rose
•Roger Quilter: Song of the Blackbird
•Benjamin Britten: Lord! Married me a Wife
•Benjamin Britten: She's Like the Swallow
•Benjamin Britten: Lemady
•Benjamin Britten: Bonny at Morn
• Benjamin Britten: I was Lonely and Forlorn
•Benjamin Britten: David of the White Rock
•Benjamin Britten: The False Knight Upon the Road
• Benjamin Britten: Bird Scarer's Song
•Gerald Finzi: Come Away, Death
• Gerald Finzi: Who Is Silvia
•Gerald Finzi: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
•Gerald Finzi: O Mistress Mine
•Gerald Finzi: It Was a Loveer nd His Lass