1. Cotswold Songs CD
Reduced price: £10
Evelyne Beech - soprano
Colin Decio - piano
"The album (CD recording) presents a breadth and strength not commonly found in contemporary recordings ...powerful and thought provoking ...simple childlike beauty"
Musician Magazine
Track List
Cotswold Songs - song-cycle
1. Old Crow
2. Day
3. May Garden
4. The Lechers
5. Plough & Cotswold Love
6. Venus in Arden
7. Flowers - single song
8. The Jews of Old Prague - for piano solo
Character Songs - song-cycle
9. Wearing a Happy Hat
10. The Spinning Wheel
11. 'Unlucky One-Eyed Jack' and the Seventeen Eyeballs
12. I wandered along by the waterside
13. The Headless bird
14. The Black Sun
15. Waltz - (from Piano Sonata 1) piano solo
Duration 57:00
Cotswold Songs is a song cycle of seven songs set to the beautiful pastoral poetry of Dymock poet John Drinkwater
Also included on the CD are various solo songs including the first recording of Flowers (poem by DH Lawrence) and two piano solos - The Jews of Old Prague & the Waltz Finale to my Piano Sonata 1 that John Ogdon premiered in 1986.
Sample Tracks