Over Hill, Over Dale: partsongs, folksongs & Shakespeare settings

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Over Hill, Over Dale: partsongs, folksongs & Shakespeare settings
Ian Bostridge (tenor) Michael George (bass) / Holst Singers / Stephen Layton

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 10 February 2009

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'The Holst Singers ... sing with a spellbinding sense of atmosphere and crystal-clear textures. Strongly recommended for all admirers of Vaughan Williams and fine choral work' (BBC Music Magazine)

'This new Vaughan Williams collection complements the Holst Singers' critically acclaimed 1993 CD of Holst partsongs (CDA66705) and is equally impressive … Masterly, but also supremely musical … The Shakespeare settings are outstanding' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Une réussite artistique exemplaire' (Répertoire, France)

'En todo momento, los cantores de Layton demuenstran un dominio total y lenguaje musical de Vaughan Williams … Un hermoso disco' (CD Compact, Spain)

'A most worthwhile enterprise, strongly recommended' (Fanfare, USA)

Tracks:

Loch Lomond
Three Shakespeare Songs
Alister McAlpine's lament
An acre of land
The seeds of love
Ca' the yowes Anonymous - traditional, arr. Vaughan Williams
Five English folk songs
The winter is gone
Mannin veen
Bushes and briars
Down among the dead men
Three Elizabethan Songs
Greensleeves

and much more