The East Anglian Music Trust have published an excellent little collection of fourteen songs entitled ‘Blyth
Voices’. These songs were collected by Vaughan Williams in Southwold in 1910, most of them from
William, Robert and Benjamin Hurr. The book is well produced with a number of excellent monochrome
photographs and extensive notes on the singers as well as background information on Vaughan Williams
visit. A number of the songs have not been published previously and Katie Howson, supported by Chris
Coe, has matched words to the tunes from other sources where possible – a not unfamiliar necessity!
