56 minutes of 20 a cappella settings including:
Charles Villiers Stanford: The blue bird
Frederick Delius: To be sung of a summer night on the water
Edward Elgar: There is Sweet Music
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Seven folk-song arrangements
Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs
The Cambridge Singers conducted by John Rutter
Collegium COLCD104 (recorded February 1986; CD issued 1986)
(CD-rip; FLACs, cover, inlay and booklet scans)
Recording engineer: Campbell Hughes; Producer: Jillian White
There seems to have been considerable interest in Stanford's exquisite setting of Mary Coleridge's poem The blue bird following its appearance at this year's Last Night of the Proms sung by the BBC Singers under Andrew Davis.
This excellent collection of English choral songs contains what I think is the finest performance of it that I have ever heard. The performances throughout this disc are very fine although none of the other works quite reach the heights of The blue bird. And To be sung of a summer night on the water must be one of Mark Padmore's earliest recordings.
[I have included the digital booklet from a later issue of this recording (Collegium CSCD505) as the original has suffered from our high level of ultra-violet light here in New Zealand. Apologies also for the poor quality of the cover and inlay scans.]
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