 | from Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge; Warlock: The Curlew; Gurney: Ludlow and Teme (CKD296) 1 When smoke stood up from Ludlow [3'04] 18 minutes 17 seconds 7 tracks2 Far in a western brookland [4'11] 3 'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town [1'11] 4 Ludlow fair [2'17] 5 On the idle hill of summer [2'58] 6 When I was one-and-twenty [1'26] 7 The Lent Lily [3'10]  The Sunday Telegraph'And lovely sound is at the core of this recording. Gilchrist sings with a gossamer tone that floats effortlessly through these settings of six A E Housman poems from A Shropshire Lad … he ... '[Gilchrist's] is a lighter-sounding voice than some of his contemporaries, but it gives him the colouring to negotiate the often folk-like melodic naivety of passages in this music while losing nothi ... |