Songs My Father Taught Me [Import]

Edward Cockram Purcell (Composer), Phyllis Tate (Composer), Arthur Sullivan (Composer), Wilfrid Sanderson (Composer), Haydn Wood (Composer), Roger Quilter (Composer), J.M. Capel (Composer), Alison Travers (Composer), Arthur Penn (Composer), Thomas Allen (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Thomas Allen
• Composer: Edward Cockram Purcell, Phyllis Tate, Arthur Sullivan, Wilfrid Sanderson, Haydn Wood, et al.
• Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B00005Y0N9
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,003 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delight, January 29, 2012

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This review is from: Songs My Father Taught Me (Audio CD)

This is a spectacularly beautiful record -- there is a sequel as well. It is not just that it is excellently sung; it is the fact that it evokes a world of sentiment and poetry that is completely gone: piano songs of a pressed flower, pretty seriously schmaltzy kind, but completely compelling. The kind of thing you have to hide from your cool friends. I keep this one playing a lot in the background, it is like having your own Victorian drawing room. "She is Far From the Land" is a favourite of mine, especially by John McCormack. This version is good too. "Love's Garden of Roses" is the one of the best here (from Hayden Wood, who also wrote "Roses in Picardy" -- the greatest of them all, not here, but on the sequel.). There is something special also about it being sung by a baritone -- you just feel comfortable all through......