David Welton & Iain Burnside - On Christmas Day (CD)

Release Date: 09/26/11

Folk Songs and Folk Carols sung by Derek Welton (baritone) with Iain Burnside (piano), some collected and all arranged by Vaughan Williams.

Vaughan Williams had begun collecting folk-songs and carols in 1903. Many folk-songs and carols were collected in the early 1900s by Vaughan Williams and Ella Mary Leather who visited local gypsies in Herefordshire where together they rescued traditional songs that may well have disappeared forever. These songs and carols remind us of our childhood and the power and beauty of songs sung by those generations long before our own. Australian baritone Derek Welton is a very much sought-after concert artist who has performed at the Barbican, Cadogan Hall, Royal Albert Hall, The Sage Gateshead, Bridgewater Hall, Symphony Hall, Birmingham and the Wigmore. Iain Burnside once again accompanies for Albion Records, who enjoys a unique reputation as pianist and broadcaster. This collection comprises Eight Traditional English Carols (1919), Six English Folk Songs (1935) and Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire (1920), the last set collected with Ella Mary Leather.