Hyperion Records
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CDH55187
(Originally issued on CDA66385)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Buy? £6.99

Recording details: October 1989
Kimpton Parish Church, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 2004
Total duration: 66 minutes 31 seconds

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'I recommend this record to every serious collector of songs' (American Record Guide)

'A recording to cherish' (Gramophone)

'Adrian Thompson's superb performance ... is a clear first choice' (BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide)

'A welcome recital, well sung and played and a necessary addition to the English Song section of your library' (CD Review)

Gurney/Vaughan Williams: A Shropshire Lad
Adrian Thompson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
On Wenlock Edge  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
1
No 1: On Wenlock Edge  [3'57]
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2
No 2: From far, from eve and morning  [2'15]
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3
No 3: Is my team ploughing?  [3'47]
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4
No 4: Oh, when I was in love with you  [0'41]
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5
No 5: Bredon Hill 'In summertime on Bredon'  [8'25]
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6
No 6: Clun 'In valleys of springs of rivers'  [3'23]
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The Western Playland  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
7
No 1: Reveille 'Wake: the silver dusk returning'  [3'28]
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8
No 2: Loveliest of Trees  [2'50]
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9
No 3: Golden friends 'With rue my heart is laden'  [1'20]
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10
No 4: Twice a week  [1'10]
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11
No 5: The aspens 'Along the field as we came by'  [3'02]
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12
No 6: Is my team ploughing?  [3'43]
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13
No 7: The far country 'Into my heart an air that kills'  [2'28]
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14
No 8: March 'The sun at noon to higher air'  [6'00]
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Ludlow and Teme  Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
15
No 1: When smoke stood up from Ludlow  [3'58]
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16
No 2: Far in a western brookland  [4'50]
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17
No 3: 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town  [1'15]
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18
No 4: Ludlow fair 'The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair'  [1'58]
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19
No 5: On the idle hill of summer  [2'42]
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20
No 6: When I was one-and-twenty  [1'23]
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21
No 7: The Lent Lily ''Tis spring; come out to ramble'  [3'56]
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