Research Catalog

Title

On the idle hill of summer [sound recording].

Author

Allen, Thomas, 1944-

Publication

London, England : Virgin Classics, p1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Parsons, Geoffrey
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958.
• Peel, Graham, 1878-1937.
• Butterworth, George, 1885-1916.
• Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953.

Description

1 sound disc : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects

• Song cycles
• Songs (Medium voice) with piano
• Songs, English > England

Note

• The 2nd work is a song cycle.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes by Stephen Banfield and biographical notes on the performers in English with French and German translations, texts of the songs in English, and text summaries in French and German ([32] p.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded July 1989, St. Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Berkshire.

Contents

Linden Lea : a Dorset song / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; words by W. Barnes (2:42) -- The house of life / Ralph Vaughan Williams ; [words] by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (30:08) -- In summertime on Bredon / Graham Peel ; words by A.E. Housman (3:38) -- On the idle hill of summer (3:39) ; Six songs from A Shropshire lad (14:08) / George Butterworth ; words by A.E. Housman -- Now sleeps the crimson petal / Roger Quilter ; words by Tennyson (2:11) -- Seven Elizabethan lyrics : op. 12 / Roger Quilter (15:45).

Call Number

*LDC 27498 (F)

LCCN

7567911052

OCLC

23441274

Author

Allen, Thomas, 1944- voc

Title

On the idle hill of summer [sound recording].

Imprint

London, England : Virgin Classics, p1990.

Performer

Thomas Allen, baritone ; Geoffrey Parsons, piano.

Event

Recorded July 1989, St. Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Berkshire.

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Added Author

Parsons, Geoffrey. Instrumentalist

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. Linden Lea.

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958. House of life.

Peel, Graham, 1878-1937. In summertime on Bredon.

Butterworth, George, 1885-1916. Bredon Hill and other songs. On the idle hill of summer.

Butterworth, George, 1885-1916. Songs from A Shropshire lad.

Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953. Songs, op. 3. Now sleeps the crimson petal.

Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953. Elizabethan lyrics.

Other Standard Identifier

7567911052

Publisher No.

VC 7 91105-2 Virgin Classics

260 423-231 Virgin Classics

7243 5 67428 2 6 EMI Classics

Research Call Number

*LDC 27498 (F) Program notes and texts on file.