English Love Songs

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..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance... — International Record Review, March 2009 More…

Release Date: 12th Jan 2009
Catalogue No: 5060192780000
Label: Stone Records
Length: 73 minutes

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Excerpt, Vaughan Williams: The House of Life

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

The House of Life: No. 2. Silent Noon

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Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical Songs (version for voice and keyboard)

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

5 Mystical Songs: No. 3. Love bade me welcome (version for voice and piano)

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Dowland: Come again, sweet love doth now invite

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Book of Songs, Book 1: Awake sweet love, thou art returned

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Excerpt, Quilter: English Love Lyrics (5), Op. 24

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

5 English Love Lyrics, Op. 24: No. 3. Go, Lovely Rose

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Excerpt, Quilter: Songs (3), Op. 3

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 1. Love's Philosophy

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Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630 (arr. B. Britten)

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act III: Solo: I Attempt from Love's Sickness (arr. B. Britten)

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Bridge: Come to Me in my Dreams

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Bridge: Love went a-riding

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Handel: Tolomeo, HWV 25, Act I: Aria: Non Io diro col labbro (arr. Somervell)

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Tolomeo, HWV 25, Act I: Aria: Non Io diro col labbro (Silent worship) (arr. A. Somervell)

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Ireland: If we must part

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Ireland: Love is a sickness full of woes

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Excerpt, Haydn: English Canzonettas (6), book 2, Hob.XXVIa:31-36

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

6 Original Canzonettas, Book 2, Hob.XXVIa:31-36: No. 5. Piercing Eyes, Hob.XXVIa:35

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Butterworth, G: Bredon Hill and other songs

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Bredon Hill and Other Songs: No. 5. With Rue My Heart is Laden

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Excerpt, Butterworth, G: A Shropshire Lad - six songs

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad: No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty

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Excerpt, Haydn: English Canzonettas (6), book 1, Hob.XXVIa:25-30

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

6 Original Canzonettas, Book 1, Hob.XXIVa:25-30: No. 5. Pleasing Pain, Hob.XXVIa:29

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Warlock: Take, O take those lips away

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Warlock: Thou gav'st me leave to kiss

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Handel: Semele, HWV 58 (arr. E. Prout)

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Semele, HWV 58, Act II Scene 3: Aria: Where'er you walk (arr. E. Prout)

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Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15: No. 7. To Lizbie Browne

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Finzi: I Said to Love, Op. 19b

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

I said to Love, Op. 19b: I said to Love

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Purcell: If music be the food of love, Z379

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Britten: Folksongs Volume 1: British Isles · Folk Songs

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, "British Isles": No. 1. The Salley Gardens

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Britten: Wild with passion

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Stephen Barlow (piano), Mark Stone (baritone)

Book of Songs, Book 1: Come again, sweet love doth now invite

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Barlow, S: If thou would’st ease thine heart

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Mark Stone (baritone), Stephen Barlow (piano)

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This excellent release is a unique collection of English love songs by some of the great English composers of the 20th century including Vaughan-Williams, Purcell, Britten, Dowland, Finzi and Warlock. All of the songs are firm favourites; amongst the most well known are Silent worship, Where’er you walk, If music be the food of love and The salley gardens. Mark Stone has sung at Covent Garden most recently in “Don Giovanni” and is a regular guest at ENO, WNO, Glyndebourne and Opera North. He and Stephen Barlow regularly perform together as a recital duo and often appear on Radio 3 and in concert in the UK and abroad.

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March 2009

..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance and colour to make this a very interesting and fulfilling programme, one which is well recorded.

15th February 2009

Stone has made an estimable career as a lyric baritone at Opera North and English National Opera, but he is less familiar as a recitalist. His light, airy baritone is well suited to the more easy-going English love songs, but takes on a nasal, pinched quality when a sense of drama is required, as in Frank Bridge’s galloping Love went a-riding. This attractive miscellaneous programme might have made a stronger impression if the order of songs were not so haphazard: Vaughan Williams (Silent Noon and Love bade me welcome) segues uncomfortably into Dowland’s Awake, sweet love, and Purcell, Handel and Haydn are interspersed pell-mell between Quilter and Ireland, Butterworth and Warlock, Finzu and Britten. Stone’s theme and sequence are too loose to be compelling and his diction, mostly clear, rarely achieves the eloquence of a born song interpreter.

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