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This is the first CD in a 2CD series which is the first ever complete recording of C W Orr’s songs for voice and piano. C W Orr is considered to be one of the greatest English song composers of the twentieth century and this collection includes 14 premiere recordings. This volume includes his largest group of Housman songs. The booklet contains full texts and extensive notes on each song.
Charles Wilfrid Orr: 7 Songs from A Shropshire Lad
No. 1. Along the Field
No. 2. When I Watch the Living Meet
No. 3. The Lent Lily
No. 4. Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree
No. 5. Oh Fair Enough Are Sky and Plain
No. 6. Hughley Steeple
No. 7. When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow
Charles Wilfrid Orr: Silent Noon
Silent Noon
Charles Wilfrid Orr: Tryste Noel
Tryste Noel
Charles Wilfrid Orr: The Brewer's Man
The Brewer's Man
Charles Wilfrid Orr: The Earl of Bristol's Farewell
The Earl of Bristol's Farewell
Charles Wilfrid Orr: When as I Wake
When as I Wake
Charles Wilfrid Orr: Slumber Song
Slumber Song
Charles Wilfrid Orr: Fain would I Change that Note
Fain would I Change that Note
Charles Wilfrid Orr: When the Lad for Longing Sighs
When the Lad for Longing Sighs
Charles Wilfrid Orr: The Carpenter's Son
The Carpenter's Son
Charles Wilfrid Orr: When I was One-and-Twenty
When I was One-and-Twenty
Charles Wilfrid Orr: Soldiers from the Wars Returning
Soldiers from the Wars Returning
Charles Wilfrid Orr: When Summer's End is Nighing (arr. M. Stone)
When Summer's End is Nighing (arr. M. Stone)
Charles Wilfrid Orr: 2 Songs from A Shropshire Lad
No. 1. Tis time, I Think, By Wenlock Town
No. 2. Loveliest of Tress, The Cherry
16th February 2012
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“[Orr's] style owed more to the 19th-century German Lied tradition, to Schumann and Wolf especially, and to the post-Wagnerian chromaticisms of Delius than it did to the gentle modality of the pastoralists...There's a muscularity about Orr's songs, sometimes a fierceness, that is quite distinctive...[Stone] sings with the same care for the words and their meaning familiar from his earlier surveys of Butterworth and Delius.”
December 2012
“The variety of Orr's settings is remarkable, although many of them have an underlying air of melancholy or nostalgia...Stone, the excellent baritone who has planned and sings this comprehensive recital so impressively, is obviously thoroughly at home in this repertoire...I recommend these two discs strongly to all lovers of English song and even more to singers”
January 2013
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“Stone's baritone is not the most colourful, subtle or supple of instruments. Nevertheless, it's undoubtedly dedicated to the clear projection of both music and text.”
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No. 1. Along the Field
