I Love My Love

Newton, Ivor; Lawrence, Thomas B.; Glasgow Orpheus Choir; Moore, Gerald; Kiddle, Frederick B.; British National Opera Company Chorus; Ranalow, Frederick; Oriana Madrigal Society; Lewis, Mary; Scott, Charles Kennedy; Light Symphony Orchestra; Boult, Adrian; Raybould, Clarence; Sargent, Malcolm; Wilson, Steuart; Roberton, Hugh S.; Stone, Norman; Goossens, Leon; The English Singers; Girls from Secondary Modern School North Midlands; British Symphony Orchestra; Jones, Trefor; Collier, Frederic; Anderson, Willia

There are two iconic moments in the history of folk song collection in England; the first involved Cecil Sharp and the second Ralph Vaughan Williams. Sharp was staying with his mother-in-law in Headington, East Oxford, on Boxing Day, 1899 when he heard the Headington Quarry Morris Dancers perform outside their cottage. He asked them to return the next day and duly noted five tunes. His lifelong enthusiasm for folk song had begun. The revelatory moment for Vaughan Williams had come on December 4, 1903 when he heard the shepherd, Charles Potiphar, sing Bushes and Briars at Ingrave, near Brentwood, Essex. As Vaughan Williams put it: “I knew and loved the few English folk songs which were then available in printed collections, but I only believed in them vaguely… my faith was not yet active.” Hearing Bushes and Briars “set all my doubts about folk song at rest” and Vaughan Williams’ musical style was to change forever. I Love My Love is a collection of remastered 78 rpm recordings of folk songs. It focuses on folk songs of classical beauty, presented in generally straightforward arrangements, collected in the early years of the twentieth century. There is a depth of humanity in these songs that connects us to a not-so-distant past. The stories and sentiments they describe, of love, war, courtship, separation and the vagaries of the seasons, can make us smile, empathize and, sometimes, still move us to tears.

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