℗ 2022 SOMM Recordings
| Released | August 19, 2022 |
| Duration | 1h 18m 02s |
| Record Label | SOMM Recordings |
| Catalogue No. | SOMMCD0655 |
| Genre | Classical (Art Song) |
Stanford: Children's Songs
Gareth Brynmor John, Susie Allan, Kitty Whately
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30
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1.1
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No. 1, Bed in Summer
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:13 | |||
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1.2
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No. 2, Pirate Story
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Kitty Whately; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:24 | |||
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1.3
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No. 3, Foreign Lands
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:44 | |||
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1.4
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No. 4, Windy Nights
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
0:54 | |||
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1.5
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No. 5, Where Go the Boats?
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:58 | |||
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1.6
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No. 6, My Shadow
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
2:32 | |||
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1.7
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No. 7, Marching Song
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Kitty Whately; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:21 | |||
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1.8
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No. 8, Foreign Children
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
2:30 | |||
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1.9
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No. 9, My Ship and Me
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Robert Louis Stevenson; Kitty Whately; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:53 | |||
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4 Songs, Op. 112
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1.10
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No. 1, Spring
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Alfred Tennyson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:50 | |||
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1.11
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No. 2, The Silence
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Alfred Tennyson; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
2:59 | |||
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1.12
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No. 3, The City Child
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Alfred Tennyson; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:33 | |||
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1.13
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No. 4, The Vision
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Alfred Tennyson; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
3:26 | |||
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6 Songs, Op. 175
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1.14
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No. 1, A Song of the Bow
Reginald Heber; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:26 | |||
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1.15
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No. 2, Drop Me a Flower
Alfred Tennyson; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:39 | |||
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1.16
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No. 3, The Winds of Bethlehem
Winifred Mary Letts; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
3:55 | |||
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1.17
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No. 4, The Monkey's Carol
Winifred Mary Letts; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
3:10 | |||
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1.18
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No. 5, Lullaby
Georgiana Fullerton; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
3:37 | |||
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1.19
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No. 6, The Unknown Sea
Mary Kitson Clark; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
2:43 | |||
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Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 1
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1.20
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No. 1, Two Little Stars
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:52 | |||
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1.21
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No. 2, The Pedlar
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
2:25 | |||
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1.22
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No. 3, Little Snowdrop
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
0:57 | |||
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1.23
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No. 4, The Piper of the Spring
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:49 | |||
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1.24
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No. 5, Speedwell
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:42 | |||
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1.25
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No. 6, The Dream Ship
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:30 | |||
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Songs from "The Elfin Pedlar", Book 2
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1.26
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No. 1, Summer
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:08 | |||
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1.27
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No. 2, What Do You See?
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
2:36 | |||
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1.28
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No. 3, The Piper
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
2:47 | |||
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1.29
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No. 4, The Secret Place
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
2:21 | |||
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1.30
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No. 5, Night
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:34 | |||
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1.31
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No. 6, The Dust-Man
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Helen Douglas Adam; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:01 | |||
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1.32
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Witches' Charms
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Ben Jonson; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:28 | |||
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1.33
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Summer's Rain and Winter's Snow
Richard Watson Gilder; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:50 | |||
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1.34
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Fairy Lures
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Rose Fyleman; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
1:38 | |||
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1.35
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The Hoofs of the Horses
William Henry Ogilvie; Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
1:47 | |||
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1.36
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A Japanese Lullaby
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Eugene Field; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
2:28 | |||
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1.37
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Worship
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; John Greenleaf Whittier; Kitty Whately; Susie Allan |
2:59 | |||
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1.38
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The King's Highway
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford; Henry Newbolt; Gareth Brynmor John; Susie Allan |
2:23 | |||
SOMM Recordings continues its widely acclaimed championing of the music of Charles Villiers Stanford with a captivating collection of his Children’s Songs by mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately and baritone Gareth Brynmor John, accompanied by pianist Susie Allan. Including numerous first recordings and the first complete CD release of his setting of 14-year-old Helen Douglas Adam’s enchanting Songs from the Elfin Pedlar, it throws revealing new light on an important but largely overlooked aspect of Stanford’s output. It features premiere recordings of the early, Robert Louis Stevenson-set A Child’s Garland of Songs (Op.30), the mid-period Four Songs (Op.112) and later Six Songs (Op.175), together with seven other standalone songs, including the simple pastoral message of Summer’s Rain and Winter’s Snow and delightfully capricious Fairy Lures.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – SOMM Recordings Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.56 -7.30 to -0.10 | -26.29 -31.21 to -21.54 | -22.38 -27.20 to -17.90 | 14 12 to 17 | |
| 1 | No. 1, Bed in Summer | -6.58 | -27.01 | -22.6 | 13 |
| 2 | No. 2, Pirate Story | -4.09 | -25.23 | -21.7 | 14 |
| 3 | No. 3, Foreign Lands | -4.57 | -26.08 | -22.2 | 14 |
| 4 | No. 4, Windy Nights | -0.22 | -24.97 | -20.4 | 14 |
| 5 | No. 5, Where Go the Boats? | -5.02 | -27.89 | -23.5 | 12 |
| 6 | No. 6, My Shadow | -5.77 | -28.25 | -23.9 | 15 |
| 7 | No. 7, Marching Song | -3.60 | -26.33 | -22.6 | 14 |
| 8 | No. 8, Foreign Children | -1.40 | -26.20 | -21.4 | 14 |
| 9 | No. 9, My Ship and Me | -1.66 | -25.50 | -21.9 | 17 |
| 10 | No. 1, Spring | -2.17 | -24.74 | -20.1 | 13 |
| 11 | No. 2, The Silence | -2.64 | -26.02 | -21.9 | 14 |
| 12 | No. 3, The City Child | -7.30 | -29.96 | -25.6 | 14 |
| 13 | No. 4, The Vision | -0.10 | -26.05 | -21.9 | 16 |
| 14 | No. 1, A Song of the Bow | -3.00 | -23.23 | -19.5 | 13 |
| 15 | No. 2, Drop Me a Flower | -6.17 | -25.74 | -22.5 | 12 |
| 16 | No. 3, The Winds of Bethlehem | -3.14 | -26.86 | -23.2 | 14 |
| 17 | No. 4, The Monkey's Carol | -4.84 | -28.06 | -24.1 | 15 |
| 18 | No. 5, Lullaby | -6.55 | -31.21 | -27.2 | 15 |
| 19 | No. 6, The Unknown Sea | -0.61 | -27.83 | -24.2 | 14 |
| 20 | No. 1, Two Little Stars | -5.10 | -29.46 | -25.6 | 14 |
| 21 | No. 2, The Pedlar | -1.76 | -26.04 | -22.7 | 15 |
| 22 | No. 3, Little Snowdrop | -4.39 | -25.99 | -22.4 | 14 |
| 23 | No. 4, The Piper of the Spring | -4.09 | -25.50 | -21.9 | 13 |
| 24 | No. 5, Speedwell | -6.35 | -28.52 | -25.1 | 14 |
| 25 | No. 6, The Dream Ship | -4.96 | -26.90 | -23.7 | 13 |
| 26 | No. 1, Summer | -0.66 | -23.10 | -19.2 | 14 |
| 27 | No. 2, What Do You See? | -1.14 | -26.03 | -21.6 | 15 |
| 28 | No. 3, The Piper | -3.49 | -23.87 | -19.7 | 13 |
| 29 | No. 4, The Secret Place | -4.73 | -25.52 | -21.5 | 13 |
| 30 | No. 5, Night | -5.95 | -28.16 | -23.3 | 13 |
| 31 | No. 6, The Dust-Man | -5.20 | -27.22 | -22.9 | 16 |
| 32 | Witches' Charms | -2.88 | -23.57 | -20.1 | 13 |
| 33 | Summer's Rain and Winter's Snow | -4.19 | -26.00 | -22.6 | 12 |
| 34 | Fairy Lures | -0.26 | -26.59 | -22.9 | 16 |
| 35 | The Hoofs of the Horses | -1.68 | -22.79 | -19.1 | 14 |
| 36 | A Japanese Lullaby | -3.78 | -28.53 | -24.8 | 15 |
| 37 | Worship | -4.50 | -26.53 | -23.0 | 14 |
| 38 | The King's Highway | -0.68 | -21.54 | -17.9 | 14 |