Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

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His sound is certainly mellifluous, his phrasing poised yet fluent, but the overall interpretation is uneven…Gilchrist deliver ‘Let Beauty Awake’ very beautifully, and the other more lyrical... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Jan 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN10969
Label: Chandos
Length: 71 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel

Work length24:27

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

No. 1, The Vagabond

Track length3:07

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No. 2, Let Beauty Awake

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No. 3, The Roadside Fire

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No. 4, Youth and Love

Track length3:29

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No. 5, In Dreams

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No. 6, The Infinite Shining Heavens

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No. 7, Whither Must I Wander?

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No. 8, Bright Is the Ring of Words

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No. 9, I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

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Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong

Work length8:56

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Philip Dukes (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

No. 1, Adagio

Track length1:35

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No. 2, Andante sostenuto

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No. 3, Larghetto

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No. 4, Lento

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No. 5, Andante tranquillo

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No. 6, Allegro vivace

Track length0:52

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Vaughan Williams: The Sky above the Roof

Work length2:54

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Vaughan Williams: Orpheus With His Lute

Work length2:37

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Excerpt, Vaughan Williams: The House of Life

Work length4:02

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

The House of Life: No. 2, Silent Noon

Track length4:02

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Vaughan Williams: The Winter’s Willow

Work length3:17

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Vaughan Williams: Romance for viola & piano

Work length6:43

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Philip Dukes (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Excerpt, Vaughan Williams: Preludes (3) on Welsh Hymn Tunes (Bryn Calfaria, Rhosymedre & Hyfrydol), for organ

Work length3:52

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Philip Dukes (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes: No. 2, Rhosymedre (Arr. R. Morrison for Tenor, Viola & Piano)

Track length3:52

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Vaughan Williams: 4 Hymns

Work length14:27

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James Gilchrist (tenor), Philip Dukes (viola), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Recorded: 24-26 April 2017
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

No. 1, Lord! Come Away!

Track length3:48

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No. 2, Who Is This Fair One?

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No. 3, Come Love, Come Lord

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No. 4, Evening Hymn

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Having previously recorded British repertoire on Chandos, James Gilchrist joins the pianist Anna Tilbrook nine years after their previous recording, in a lyrical journey through some of Vaughan Williams’s best songs and rarely heard chamber works. They are joined by Philip Dukes, ‘Great Britain’s most outstanding viola player’, according to The Times. This album captures the composer’s love for both the voice and the viola, bringing together five works for tenor and piano, two for tenor, viola, and piano, and two works for viola and piano alone. Central to the recording is the fresh, invigorating, and at times reflective cycle ‘Songs of Travel,’ composed between 1901 and 1904, of special interest is also an arrangement of ‘Rhosymedre’ by the chief music critic of The Times, Richard Morrison, recorded here for the first time and performed by the same forces who gave the premiere of the arrangement in St. John’s Smith Square in 2016 to critical acclaim.

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March 2018

His sound is certainly mellifluous, his phrasing poised yet fluent, but the overall interpretation is uneven…Gilchrist deliver ‘Let Beauty Awake’ very beautifully, and the other more lyrical songs, but he doesn’t seem to vary his tone enough for the darker Scottish-tinged lament ‘Whither Must I Wander?’

February 2018

Gilchrist and Tilbrook draw upon the reserves of experience that come with two decades of performing together to lend delectably wise advocacy to the Songs of Travel…This is a strongly recommendable issue.

December 2018

Convincing and engrossing performances of VW on the viola.

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