Charles Villiers Stanford: Songs 2 (Hyperion Audio CD)

Hyperion Stanford CD Stanford: Songs 2

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Clifford Benson (piano)

CDA67124

Recording details: October 1999
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: June 2000
Total duration: 75 minutes 3 seconds

Track listing CD1 1
Tragödie, Op 14 No 5 (Stanford) 'Entflieh mit und sei mein Weib' 5:09

The clown's songs from 'Twelfth night', Op 65 (Stanford)
2 No 1: O mistress mine 1:34
3 No 2: Come away, death 4:04
4 No 3: The rain it raineth every day 'When that I was and a little tiny boy' 1:26

Songs of a Roving Celt, Op 157 (Stanford)
5 No 1: The Pibroch 'The pibroch, man, the pibroch!' 2:37
6
Phoebe, Op 125 No 3 (Stanford) 'Phoebe sat, sweet she sat' 2:01

Songs of the Sea, Op 91 (Stanford)
7 No 1: Drake's drum 'Drake he's in his hammock and a thousand miles away' 2:36
8 No 2: Outward bound 'Dear Earth, near Earth, the clay that made us men' 3:15
9 No 3: Devon, O Devon, in wind and rain 'Drake in the North Sea grimly prowling' 1:49
10 No 4: Homeward bound 'After a long lab'ring in the windy ways' 6:52
11 No 5: The old superb 'The wind was rising easterly, the morning sky was blue' 3:02
12
For ever mine (Stanford) 'I liken my love to a gossamer afloat in the summer air' 3:15

A Child's Garden of Songs, Op 30 (Stanford)
13 No 4: Windy Nights 'Whenever the moon and the stars are set' 0:48
14
A Lullaby, Op 19 No 2 (Stanford) 'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes' 2:16
15
To the Rose, Op 19 No 3 (Stanford) 'Go happy rose, and interwove' 2:01

Songs of Faith, Op 97 (Stanford)
16 No 4: To the soul 'Darest thou now, O soul' 4:55
17 No 6: Joy, shipmate, joy! 1:49

An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures, Op 77 (Stanford)
18 No 2: The Fairy Lough 'Loughareema! Lies so high among the heather' 4:23
19
Tom Leminn (Stanford) 'As I was crossing Tanner's Hill' 2:49

A Fire of Turf, Op 139 (Stanford)
20 No 1: A fire of turf 'In summer time I foot the turf' 3:54
21 No 2: The chapel on the hill 'the chapel of my childhood' 2:49
22 No 3: Cowslip time 'God bless the time when cowslips grow' 1:31
23 No 4: Scared 'These dusky evenings in December' 2:01
24 No 5: Blackberry time 'In blackberry time herself and me' 2:07
25 No 6: The fair 'Oh! We're off to the fair now the lot of us together' 1:38
26 No 7: The west wind 'Last night the air was cold and still' 4:22