This CD is devoted to Parry, Somervell, and Stanford, three of the greatest songwriters of the Late-Victorian Renaissance. Parry is considered to be a very fine composer indeed, and this collection includes some of the best of his songs. The Stanford songs are, perhaps, better known, and Somervell’s setting of the Shropshire Lad cycle is more than just a minor masterpiece. A rare treat!
Sarah Leonard – Soprano
Paul Leonard – Baritone
Malcolm Martineau – Piano
On This Recording
- English Lyrics, Set 10: English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 1. My heart is like a singing bird
- English Lyrics: English Lyrics, Set 10: No. 5. From a city window
- English Lyrics: No. 6. The Maiden
- English Lyrics: No. 5. Armida's garden
- English Lyrics, Set 1: English Lyrics, Set 1: No. 1. My True Love Hath my Heart
- English Lyrics, Set 1: English Lyrics, Set 1: No. 2. Good-night
- English Lyrics: English Lyrics, Set 5: No. 3. Crabbed age and youth
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 1. Loveliest of trees
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 2. When I was one-and-twenty
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 3. There pass the careless people
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 4. In summer-time on Bredon
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 5. The street sounds to a soldier's tread
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 6. On the idle hill of summer
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 7. White in the moon the long road lies
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 8. Think no more lad, laugh, be jolly
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 9. Into my heart an air that kills
- The Shropshire Lad: No. 10. The lads in their hundreds
- Love in Springtime: Love in Springtime: Young Love Lies Sleeping
- Shepherd's cradle song
- Come to me in my dreams
- A Fire of Turf: A Fire of Turf, Op. 139: No. 6. The Fair
- Songs of Faith: Songs of Faith, Op. 97: No. 4. To the Soul
- The Calico Dress
- An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures: No. 1. Corrymeela
- An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures: No. 2. The Fairy Lough
- An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures: No. 3. Cuttin' Rushes
- An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures: No. 4. Johneen
- An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures: No. 5. A Broken Song
- An Irish Idyll in 6 Miniatures: No. 6. Back to Ireland
