Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Volume 2 Martin Jones Emma Abbate

Emma Abbate

Born in 1818 in Seltz near Kherson (today’s Ukraine)

with a programme of music for Advent

Daniel Tong

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Maconchy & Vaughan Williams: Songs, Volume 2 Martin Jones Emma AbbateJames Geer (tenor) Ronald Woodley (piano) This second of two releases to mark the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williamss birth presents a further two major song collections by the composer, while bringing to light another selection of songs by his student Elizabeth Maconchy. Her works here are almost all unpublished and virtually unknown since their first performances from manuscript, and span several decades of the composers career from the