More Songs My Father Taught Me (music of Frederick Clay, Haydn Wood, Arthur Sullivan, Eric Coates, etc)

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More Songs My Father Taught Me (music of Frederick Clay, Haydn Wood, Arthur Sullivan, Eric Coates, etc)
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 30 June 2003

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"Drawing-room songs that make their mark again, thanks to such a strong advocate"
- Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (August 2003)

"Another delightful disc by Sir Thomas Allen which draws on that rich vein of Victorian and Edwardian parlour song. What is so winning about Allen's approach is the sense of total belief in these often very delicate utterances that nonetheless create resonances of far greater intensity than one would imagine. Schubert and Wolf may make greater demands on a interpreter but these pieces need a delicate balance between over-interpretation and blandness. No such error here."
- Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (August 2003)

Known the world over as one of the finest dramatic stage presences before the opera public today, Sir Thomas Allen is also a communicative recitalist, gifted with an open humour and devotion to song that quickly enraptures his audience. These qualities were celebrated last year with pianist Malcolm Martineau in the first volume of 'Songs my father taught me' (CDA67290) and which by popular demand - a true encore! - are shared again in this touching second collection. Here once more is a recital of familiar and nostalgic repertoire steeped in history from firesides of generation after generation, of families gathered round the old piano or latterly the phonograph, dwelling on sentiments of love and regret, wishfulness and celebration, absence and expectancy, that know no age. This disc, graced by a mellow and honeyed voice, captures a gentle age gone by when such heartfelt depictions brought both consolation and joy.

Tracks:

Water o' Tyne (Traditional) [1'33]
I heard you singing (Royden Barrie/Eric Coates) [2'40]
Will you go with me? (Herbert J Brandon, Phil Park/Alan Murray) [2'07]
A Cradle Song (Padraic Colum/Mary Sheldon) [1'23]
A Song of Sleep (Lord Henry Somerset) [2'32]
The Green Hills o' Somerset (Fred E Weatherly/Eric Coates) [2'28]
Mountain Lovers (Fred E Weatherly/W H Squire) [3'39]
I'll sing thee songs of Araby (W G Wills/Frederic Clay) [2'47]
Mother Machree (Rida Johnson Young/Chauncey Olcott, Ernest R Ball) [2'22]
Roses of Picardy (Fred E Weatherly/Haydn Wood) [3'43]
There's a long, long trail a-winding (Stoddart King/Zo Elliott) [3'06]
The Old Brigade (Fred E Weatherly/Odoardo Barri) [3'50]
Yes! let me like a soldier fall (Edward Fitzball/William Vincent Wallace) [2'55]
Because (Edward Frederick Lockton/Guy d'Hardelot) [1'54]
Love's Old Sweet Song (G Clifton Bingham/J L Molloy) [3'47]
Star of God (Fred E Weatherly/Eric Coates) [2'38]
Friend o' mine (Fred E Weatherly/Wilfrid Sanderson) [2'56]
Simon the Cellarer (W H Bellamy/J L Hatton) [3'17]
Time to go (Fred E Weatherly/Wilfrid Sanderson) [2'07]
Echo (Christina Rossetti/Lord Henry Somerset) [3'29]
The Songs of Today (Beresford Rode/T C Sterndale Bennett) [2'17]
Just a-wearyin' for you (Frank Stanton/Carrie Jacobs-Bond) [2'18]
Down by the Sally Gardens (W B Yeats/Traditional, arr Herbert Hughes) [2'03]
Orpheus with his Lute (William Shakespeare/Sir Arthur Sullivan) [3'06]
Kashmiri Song (Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory/Amy Woodforde-Finden) [2'54]
In the Gloaming (Meta Orred/Annie Fortescue Harrison) [2'22]
The Star of the County Down (Cathal McGarvey/Traditional, arr Herbert Hughes) [1'54]
A Perfect Day (Carrie Jacobs-Bond) [2'17]
She moved thro' the fair (unaccompanied) (Padraic Colum/Traditional) [2'04]