This release from Albion Records highlights both Vaughan Williams's skill in setting English poetry and prose to music and his abiding love of the violin, which he described as his "musical salvation." It features song settings of both John Bunyan and Robert Louis Stevenson performed by baritone Roland Wood alongside familiar and less well-known works for violin, arranged on this occasion for violin and piano and played by Matthew Trusler and Iain Burnside.
6 The Infinite Shining Heavens - Various Performers
7 Whither Must I Wander - Various Performers
8 Bright Is the Ring of Words - Various Performers
9 I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope - Various Performers
10 Lovely on the Water (The Springtime of the Year) - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
11 Spurn Point - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
12 Van Dieman's Land - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
13 She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
14 The Lady and the Dragon - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
15 As I Walked Over London Bridge - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
16 Watchful's Song (Nocturne) - Roland Wood/Iain Burnside
17 The Song of the Pilgrims - Roland Wood/Iain Burnside
18 The Pilgrim's Psalm - Roland Wood/Iain Burnside
19 Allegro Pesante - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
20 Adagio - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
21 Presto - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
22 The Lark Ascending - Matthew Trusler/Iain Burnside
This release from Albion Records highlights both Vaughan Williams's skill in setting English poetry and prose to music and his abiding love of the violin, which he described as his "musical salvation." It features song settings of both John Bunyan and Robert Louis Stevenson performed by baritone Roland Wood alongside familiar and less well-known works for violin, arranged on this occasion for violin and piano and played by Matthew Trusler and Iain Burnside.