Brian Kay is of course well known as a member of the celebrated Kings Singers and as a presenter on BBC Radio 3 and 4. The music: breezy, happy, and fun — easy listening it all is; the range is diverse from Shearing’s jaunty jazz style to part-songs by Vaughan Williams, Pearsall, Sullivan and others.
Brian Kay – Conductor
Harmoniemusik Wind Quartet
M Haynes – Piano
A Lang – Double Bass
Part Songs by E J Moeran
“Ideal for the ironing (for the chaps) or the car stereo (for the ladies). The music and the choir’s singing are no less than excellent” – The Singer
“A CD to chase the blues away” – British Music Society Journal
On This Recording
- The sailor and young Nancy: The Sailor and Young Nancy
- 3 Elizabethan Songs: 3 Elizabethan Songs: No. 3. O mistress mine
- Love is a sickness: Love is a Sickness
- Birthday Madrigals: No. 1. It was a lover and his lass
- Birthday Madrigals: No. 2. Draw on, sweet night
- Birthday Madrigals: No. 3. Come live with me
- Birthday Madrigals: No. 4. My true love hath my heart
- Birthday Madrigals: No. 5. When daisies pied
- Who shall have my lady fair?
- Sweet and Low
- 5 English Folk Songs: 5 English Folk Songs: No. 3. Just as the tide was flowing
- Music to Hear: No. 1. Music to hear
- Music to Hear: No. 2. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
- Music to Hear: No. 3. Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye
- Music to Hear: No. 4. Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more
- Music to Hear: No. 5. Blow, blow thou winter wind
- Lay a garland on her hearse
- 7 Partsongs: 7 Partsongs: No. 6. The Long Day Closes (version for choir)
- Cycle Round Britain: No. 1. Strawberry Fair
- Cycle Round Britain: No. 2. The Ash Grove
- Cycle Round Britain: No. 3. The Raith Rover
- Cycle Round Britain: No. 4. Londonderry Air
- Cycle Round Britain: No. 5. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
