This page lists all recordings of Sea Fever, by John Ireland (1879-1962) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The English Song Series Volume 18 - Ireland
Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano) “Among the 26 Ireland songs on this disc are two cycles devoted to Thomas Hardy, dating from 1925 and 1926. Settings of Hardy's poems were of course at the heart of Gerald Finzi's output of songs, and there is nothing in these Ireland cycles that approaches the fine-honed responses and harmonic imagination of those, sensitively though Williams and Burnside present them. In fact it's hard to pin down a distinctive creative personality in any of these songs, and ironically it's the cycle We'll to the Woods No More from 1927 that seems the most individual, with texts from that favourite source for early 20th-century English composers, AE Housman, that has the most character.” The Guardian, 20th June 2008 *** “Roderick Williams, with his sympathetic, warmly rounded baritone, and Iain Burnside are eloquent advocates of all these songs. Even they, though, cannot dispel a sense of sameishness, with pastoral-tinged melancholy too rarely relieved by something more impassioned or invigorating.” The Telegraph, 14th June 2008 “Another irresistible volume in The English Song Series: a compilation of John Ireland which reveals the sheer breadth of emotional experience and variegated piano writing within his songs. Every word is tasted, pungently flavoured and given rigorous new life, with Iain Burnside's piano playing sentient to every second of Williams's singing.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** “Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's singing.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008  BBC Music Magazine
Choral & Song Choice - July 2008 |
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| | British Music Collection - John Ireland, Edmund Rubbra, Roger Quilter
Bryn Terfel, Kathleen Ferrier, Benjamin Luxon, Elly Ameling, Jennifer Vyvyan Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, David Hill, Elgar Howarth | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Sea FeverRoderick Williams sings baritone songs by British composers
Roderick Williams (baritone) BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 5-6 June 2007 “Roderick Williams is his usual mellifluous self, but these baritone songs, often orchestrated by other hands, are a very mixed bag…” BBC Music Magazine, March 2008 *** “Roderick Williams is, as ever, admirable in the quality of his tone, the clarity of his diction and the cleanness of his style. The well arranged orchestral accompaniments are sympathetically conducted and carefully played.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | A Treasury of English SongA selection of songs from the Hyperion catalogue.
Thomas Allen, Stephen Varcoe, Stephen Roberts, Paul Agnew, Ian Bostridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Mark Ainsley, Felicity Lott, et al. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | The Very Best of English Song
anon.: | The Willow Song | Balfe: | Come into the garden, Maud | Bishop: | Home, Sweet Home | Brahe: | Bless this House | Butterworth, G: | Loveliest of Trees | Byrd: | Lullaby, my sweet little baby Ye sacred muses | Carter, S: | Down Below | Dibdin: | Tom Bowling | Dowland: | Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597) Sorrow, stay Awake, sweet love Woeful heart Shall I sue? Me, me, and none but me Flow my teares (Lacrimæ) | Finzi: | Since we loved Rollicum-rorum | Gurney: | Down by the Salley Gardens Black Stitchel | Ireland: | The Salley Gardens Sea Fever | Johnson, R: | Where the bee sucks Full fathom five | Keel: | Trade Winds | Morley: | It was a lover and his lass O mistress mine | Mortimer: | The Smuggler's Song | Parry: | O mistress mine | Peel: | Bredon Hill | Purcell: | Fairest Isle Music for a while, Z583 I attempt from love's sickness If music be the food of love An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 | Quilter: | Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 No. 1 (Shelley) Now sleeps the crimson petal, Op. 3 No. 2 (Tennyson) Come away, death | Shield: | The Plough Boy | Stanford: | Drake's Drum The Old Superb | Swann: | The Hippopotamus Song (Mud, mud, glorious mud) A Transport of Delight (The Omnibus) The Wart Hog | trad.: | The Foggy, Foggy Dew Greensleeves | Vaughan Williams: | Linden Lea The Lamb The Shepherd Silent Noon | Walton: | Popular Song from 'Façade' | Warlock: | Yarmouth Fair My Own Country Passing By Pretty Ring Time Balulalow | Woodforde-Finden: | Kashmiri Song |
Ian Bostridge, Jonathan Lemalu, Janet Baker, Emma Kirkby, Thomas Allen, Alfred Deller, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, et al | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Jonathan Lemalu (bass baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) Gramophone Debut Album of the Year 2002 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | The Vagabond
Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | John Ireland - The Songs
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), John Mitchinson (tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) & Alan Rowlands (piano) 3 CDs for price of 2 | | Lyrita - SRCD2261 (CD - 3 discs) Normally: £25.49 (£21.69 ex. VAT) Special: £19.11 (£16.26 ex. VAT) |
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