Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; Glick: South of North, etc - review

Hopkins/Mosbey (Atma Classique)Joshua Hopkins won a Borletti-Buitoni award in 2006, and as this first recital disc of 20th-century songs demonstrates, he's a baritone of real promise and vocal presence. Apart from the Vaughan Williams Stevenson cycle, Hopkins concentrates on little-known settings – few on this side of the Atlantic will know the eight highly wrought songs to poems by Richard Outram that make up South of North – Images of Canada by Srul Irving Glick (1934-2002), while neither...

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