MY NATIVE LAND (Teldec) REVIEW

Gramophone Magazine (December 1997), Edward Seckerson

Jake Heggie has the first word with his setting of a traditional text "He's gone Away," and the directness of it is at once disarming. It's impossible to date and yet there is something longstanding, venerable about it ... Four other Heggie songs are offered and in each case it's amazing how he assumes the identity of his texts. How he is literally, for instance, in harmony with A.E. Housman's "White in the moon." Vaughan Williams should be so English.