And so it goes : songs of folk and lore

"Some are arrangements of genuine folk songs, others inhabit that no-man's-land between folk and art song where a strong melody and emotionally charged words are the principal drivers. The most obvious thread running through the recording, however, is the enjoyment Noel Edison and The Elora Singers so clearly derive from performing them ... The choir is sumptuously toned and gloriously balanced in Holst's 'I love my love' and Stephen Paulus's 'The Old Church' but they are at their very best in the Vaughan Williams Shakespeare Songs, with 'The Cloud-Capp'd Towers' a shining pearl in a string of otherwise rather unevenly polished stones".