Scott Robert Shaw - The English Tenor (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Scott Robert Shaw’s debut “The English Tenor” takes us on a beautifully performed journey through a who’s who of great English composers and their vocal works. The names Ivor Gurney, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and Roger Quilter are synonymous with English Song, and a Golden Age of British music. The wide variety of accompanying instruments and artists, the broad range of text settings and the mix of cornerstone works of the repertoire alongside lesser-known cycles make “The English Tenor” a thrilling debut album.

A product of the English church music tradition, Australian-born Scott Robert Shaw has been performing works in this oeuvre since childhood. Whether on the operatic or oratorio stage, as an ensemble singer or soloist, his deep cultural roots to the British music world are laid bare for all to see. This deeply personal album stands as testament to his background, and as a homecoming to his earliest steps as an artist.

Beginning his career and training as a boy soprano at the St George’s Cathedral Perth Choir, Scott then attended the McDonald College of the Performing Arts in Sydney, studying music and acting in the Stanislawksy/Laban tradition, and was awarded a full scholarship for Excellence in Performance. He then attended the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and was given the Most Exceptional Contribution to the Arts award from Wesley College, University of Sydney. In London he continued his studies with the English National Opera’s Baylis Programme for young performers and was regularly engaged to perform as a recitalist and operatic tenor in festivals and opera companies in both the United Kingdom and France. He then completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague where he studied Early Music and Classical Singing, and now based in Düsseldorf, is regularly engaged as a soloist in The Netherlands and Germany, with a particular focus on Bach oratorios and Evangelist roles in the Passions.

Tracklist:
Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs
01. I. Orpheus
02. II. Tears
03. III. Under the Greenwood Tree
04. IV. Sleep
05. V. Spring
Vaughan Williams: Along the Field
06. I. We'll to the Woods No More
07. II. Along the Field
08. III. The Half-Moon Westers Low
09. IV. In the Morning
10. V. The Sigh That Heaves the Grasses
11. VI. Good-Bye
12. VII. Fancy's Knell
13. VIII. With Rue My Heart Is Laden

Quilter: Four Songs Op. 14
14. I. Autumn Evening
15. II. April
16. III. Last Year's Rose
17. IV. Song of the Blackbird

Britten: Eight Folk Song Arrangements for High Voice and Harp
18. I. Lord! I Married Me a Wife
19. II. She's Like the Swallow
20. III. Lemady
21. IV. Bonny at Morn
22. V. I Was Lonely and Forlorn (Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn)
23. VI. David of the White Rock (Dafydd y Garreg Wen)
24. VII. The False Knight upon the Road
25. VIII. Bird Scarer's Song

Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
26. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: I. Come Away, Come Away, Death
27. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: II. Who Is Sylvia
28. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: III. Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
29. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: IV. O Mistress Mine
30. Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18: IV. It Was a Lover and His Las


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