A Voice from the Past CD

In 2011 it was the Fund's 90th birthday. In celebration, and to preserve the memory of Gervase Elwes' voice, we published the majority of his discography on CD, expertly remastered by Ward Marston in America.

The CD is available free of charge, in return for a donation to the Fund. The suggested donation is £10. Please use the donate button below or call the Communications Team on 020 7239 9114.

A Vocie from the Past - Gervase Elwes

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Tracklisting

Songs by Vaughan Williams

On Wenlock Edge, Tracks 1-6; Recorded Spring 1917
1.         On Wenlock Edge [A E Housman]
              Columbia 7146
2.         From far, from Eve till morning
              Columbia 7147
3.         Is my team ploughing?
              Columbia 7148
4.         Oh, when I was in love with you
              Columbia 7147
5.         Bredon Hill
              Columbia 7149
6.         Clun
              Columbia 7150
7.         The Roadside Fire [R L Stevenson]
              Columbia L1074

Songs by Roger Quilter

8.         To Daisies
              HMV B321
9.         Song of the Blackbird
              HMV B321
10.       Blow, blow, thou winter wind [W Shakespeare]
              Columbia L1055
11.       Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
              Columbia L1055
12.       Love’s Philosophy
              Columbia L1055
13.       Cuckoo Song
              Columbia L1074
14.       Fill a Glass with Golden Wine
              Columbia L1101
15.       O Mistress Mine [W Shakespeare]
              Columbia L1119
16.       Fair House of Joy
              Columbia L1119

Songs by other composers

17.       Semele: Where’er you walk [Handel]
              Columbia L1152
18.       Lift your heads on high [Bach]
              Columbia L1325
19.       Ich liebe dich [Grieg]
              HMV B322
20.       Songs my mother taught me [Dvorak]
              Columbia L1119
21.       Phyllis has such charming graces [A Young arr. H Lane-Wilson]
              HMV B320
22.       Listen to the voice of love [Hook]
              Columbia D1426
23.       So we’ll go no more a-roving [Maude Valerie White]
              HMV C459
24.       Absent, yet present [Maude Valerie White]
              HMV B321
25.       A Sea Dirge [Dunhill/W Shakespeare]
              Columbia L1398
26.       The Lake Isle of Innisfree [Ley/W B Yeats]
              Columbia L1398
27.       Brittany [Farrar]
              Columbia D1426
28.       A Carol of Bells [Stanford]
              Columbia L1152
29.       Love went a-riding [Bridge]
              Columbia L1325
30.       Gifts [C Taylor]
              Columbia D1428

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