Today I’m staying close to home with this song...in the West Country of England, to be precise, in Dorset. It is Linden Lea, originally a poem written by William Barnes sometime around mid 19th century, which was set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1902. I have known it all my life and first sang it at school in Edinburgh, and over the years it has become a favourite in this genre of English Folk song. There are lots of different renditions to chose from, but I’ve chosen this one by Sir Thomas Allen because I love the timbre of his baritone voice.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Yes indeed, it brings back Bury St Edmunds prep school music room memories. The crazy three siblings running the school who, unwittingly, so influenced my 2nd half of life. A soprano or tenor singing it would be nice. Did Ian Partridge ever do this sort of stuff?
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Not so far as I know. As I have a soprano voice and am used to hearing it in that higher register, I thought it was nice to hear it sung by a baritone of Thomas Allen’s calibre. However...here is tenor Ian Bostridge singing it.
@Marionville Oh, I love it! Not as cathedral a voice as Partridge but beautiful. I often claim I hear nasal singing in stuff posted. Actually apply such voices to Cathedral singing and I'm at home! The cathedral voice is very different from your choice of operatic voice, where opening the mouth wide is desirable, whilst cathedral singing doing Palestrina is rather a nasal affair.
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