Can you recommend a recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Linden Lea"?

Actually what I'm looking for, is a version that features the alternate "Dorset" dialect.
http://imslp.org/wiki/Linden_Lea_(Vaughan_Williams,_Ralph)

I have sheet music in the appropriate key and have actually sung this several times, but it would be fun to try it with the accent. Only I want it to be as authentic as possible. Americans are still trying to live down Dick Van Dyke's "Cockney" accent in "Mary Poppins"!

As long as it has the accent I can listen to for reference, it doesn't matter what key the singer is singing in, or if it's a male or female vocalist.


Thanks.

2013-09-26T01:44:42Z

While answering a question in another section concerning what sort of accent Oliver Twist might have had, I ran across a similar question that does give me some sources to research the accent if I weren't lazy and would still like to hear it sung at least once. So if anyone can find a recording? If you can't find it on Youtube, if I can buy it as a single track somewhere, that's fine.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070603130958AAlt2u8

2013-09-26T01:52:25Z

Actually those sources don't actually contain audio files.

13Across2013-09-30T05:18:02Z

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No singing I think - but this resource contains lots of authentic examples of British speech, including several from Dorset.
http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects
British accents are often very localised. What made DvD's performance in MP so appalling was that his was a mishmash of several, including a couple of Irish ones.

I found this version of Linden Lea on YouTube. The accent sounds authentic to me. Note the raised 'u' sound in "do", and the tendency to pronounce initial 's' as a soft 'z' and initial 'f' as soft 'v'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZeEMakQwo

Dorset is rather a soft accent. I'd advise against overdoing it, a trace should be enough. "The Archers" is a long-running soap on BBC radio - "an everyday story of country folk". The accents in it have long been derided as "Mummerset". The 78 played in this video is authentic, but is very much from former times - and it wouldn't surprise me if Walter Ball had been at the cider beforehand!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2owHROX5Ebw

Another example of spoken Dorset; the reader is being deliberately archaic, but I find him convincing. The vowels, especially the diphthongs, sound right to my ears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIQOizHUxjw

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bavar2016-10-29T01:13:14Z

Linden Lea Sheet Music

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