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Vaughan Williams: Carols, Songs & Hymns

Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band: Vaughan Williams (Park PRKCD 111)

Vaughan Williams
Carols, Songs & Hymns
Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band

Park Records PRKCD 111 (CD, UK, 6 December 2010)

The album’s title suggests that this is an album of songs set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, but strangely enough, his name is not mentioned anywhere in the liner notes which only contain the lyrics of the songs.

Recorded at Blue Moon Studios, Oxfordshire;
Additional vocal recording at The Steppings Cumbria;
Engineered by Mark Lee and Tony Poole;
Mixed and mastered by Tony Poole;
Sleeve design by Gwen Morgan;
Album co-ordination by John Dagnell

Musicians

Maddy Prior: vocals;
Steve Banks: percussion, violin, vocals;
Jub Davis: double bass, vocals;
Giles Lewin: violin, viola, recorder, vocals;
Steno Vitale: electric and acoustic guitar, mandolin;
Andy Watts: clarinet, bassoon, recorder, shawn, vocals

Tracks

  1. The Golden Carol (2.51)
    words anon. 15th century
  2. Blake’s Cradle Song (3.12)
    words William Blake (1757-1827)
  3. The Blessed Son of God (2.26)
    from Hodie, words Miles Coverdale (1488-1569)
  4. Snow in the Street (4.37)
    words William Morris (1834-1896)
  5. Wither’s Rocking Hymn (4.04)
    words George Wither (1588-1667)
  6. Drinking Song (Back and Side Go Bare) (Roud 1573) (3.33)
    from Sir John in Love, words anon. 15th century, from the play Gammer Gurton’s Needle
  7. Whither Must I Wander? (3.32)
    from Songs of Travel, words Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
  8. The Willow Whistle (3.14)
    words M.E. Fuller
  9. Linden Lea (RoudBS B104645) (2.37)
    words William Barnes (1801-1886)
  10. The Divine Image (2.20)
    from The Blake Songs, words William Blake (1757-1827)
  11. The Woodcutter’s Song (2.17)
    from Seven Songs from The Pilgrim’s Progress, words John Bunyan (1628-1688)
  12. Come Down O Love Divine (3.48)
    tune Down Ampney, words Bianco da Siena (c.1350-1399), translation Richard Frederick Littledale, Jr.
  13. Fierce Raged the Tempest (1.50)
    tune White Gates, words Godfrey Thring (1823-1903)
  14. At the Name of Jesus (2.35)
    tune King’s Weston, words Caroline Maria Noel (1817-1877)
  15. Into the Woods My Master Went (2.35)
    tune Mantegna, words Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
  16. The Night Is Come (2.43)
    tune Oakley, words Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
  17. God Be With You Till We Meet Again (2.40)
    tune Randolph, words Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1828-1904)