I will go with my father a-ploughing , Brown is my love, etc. Jonathan Veira, Shelley Katz. John Jeffreys’ songs have grace and warmth of expression, intensifying with passionate conviction. These are well matched by Jonathan Veira’s power and depth as they are by the wide tonal range of Katz’s playing. Song enthusiasts should take time to explore this gifted songwriter.
“A Composer with a voice of his own… with grace and warmth of expression, intensifying with passionate and sometimes disturbing conviction. Several of the songs are dramatic in style, well matched by Veira’s power and depth, as they are by the wide tonal range of Katz’s playing.” – The Gramophone
On This Recording
- I will go with my father a‑ploughing: I will go with my father a-ploughing
- Brown is my Love
- Sweeney the Mad
- I will make you brooches
- Six badgers
- When I came last to Ludlow
- If it chance your eye offend you
- Thirteen pence a day
- Horror follows Horror
- This is the weather the cuckoo likes
- In youth is pleasure
- Northumberland
- O good ale
- The salley gardens
- Full Fathom Five
- Now wolde
- Ambulance train
- In Marley Wood
- The reaper
- The farewell
- A Lyke-Wake Dirge
