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A SHROPSHIRE LAD
BLAKE FISCHER (baritone); CLAIRE COOPER (piano)

Blake Fischer is an award-winning singer from Australia, who with his accompanist Claire Cooper won the Song Recital Award in 1998. This is a lovely CD, mainly of English song, by three of the masters of the genre; also included are some traditional American songs in arrangements by Aaron Copland. A fine recital.


Compare Butterworth's settings of Housman with those of John Williamson and FInzi's of Shakespeare with those of John Jeffreys, all avaialble on Diversions and Dunelm (see catalogs)

playing time:  46.28
direct sale price:  $18.99
audio  sample: 'Who is Silvia' (Shakespeare/Finzi)
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tracks:
George Butterworth:
Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad -
   Loveliest of trees
   When I was one-and-twenty
   Look not in my eyes
   Think no more, lad
   The lads in their hundreds
   Is my team ploughing?
Aaron Copland:
Four Old American Songs -
   Long Time Ago
   Simple Gifts
   At the River
   Ching-Ring Chaw
Gerald Finzi:
Let us Garlands Bring, op. 18 -
   Come away, come away, death
   Who is Silvia?
   Fear no more the heat o' the sun
   O Mistress Mine
   It was a lover and his lass
Benjamin Britten:
British Folk Song Arrangements -
   The Ploughboy
   The Salley Gardens
   The Miller of Dee
   O Waly Waly
   Oliver Cromwell

review extracts:
“all presented knowingly and with superb diction ... I would hope to hear more from Fischer in the next few years ... Sound is excellent.” - The Delian, USA