Charles Villiers Stanford: Orchestral Songs Neil Ferris we are better able to

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Fount & Origin

Ligeti & Brahms)

a multi-millionaire businessman

conducted by Artistic Director George Vass

Charles Villiers Stanford: Orchestral Songs Neil Ferris we are better able toSharon Carty (mezzo soprano) Morgan Pearse (baritone) BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Singers John Andrews (conductor) Charles Villiers Stanford felt a special affinity for the orchestral song, an idiom which began to establish itself as a distinct art form in its own right at the end of the nineteenth century with composers such as Mahler, Richard Strauss, Elgar and Bantock. This recording, released to mark the composers centenary year, features a wide