Twenty-four Housman Songs

settings by John R. Williamson
Nigel Shaw (Baritone)
John R. Williamson (Piano)
CD DRD0257* – £10-95 UK
supersedes DRD0133 & DRD0218

[1]	The Isle of Portland
[2]	As I gird on for fighting
[3]	Now hollow fires burn out to black
[4]	When I came last to Ludlow
[5]	Oh, stay at home my lad, and plough
[6]	Delight it is in youth and May
[7]	With rue my heart is laden
[8]	I wake from dreams and turning
[9]	The mill stream
[10]	When Adam walked in Eden young
[11]	It nods and curtseys
[12]	The farms of home
[13]	The ploughman
[14]	Keeping sheep by moonlight
[15]	The recruit
[16]	White in the moon the long road lies
[17]	Soldier from the war returning
[18]	When first my way to fair I took
[19]	Is my team ploughing?
[20]	When I watch the living meet
[21]	Young is the blood that yonder
[22]	In valleys green and still
[23]	Look not in my eyes, for fear
[24]	The carpenter's son
Total time: 58:13 [Titles of poems are given in italics; first lines in 'normal' print.] Reviews & Comments For the first twelve songs see: http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2002/Oct02/Williamson.htm http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2004/May04/Williamson_Housman1.htm For the songs on tracks 13 to 24 see: http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2004/Jun04/Williamson_12more.htm

Softly as I leave you

a selection of Male Voice Choir favourites
Poynton Male Voice Choir (and soloists)
Conductor: David Mosley
CD DRD0252 – £10-95 UK

[1]	Oliver Medley, Lionel Bart arr. Alan Simmons
[2]	Balm in Gilead, Trad. Negro arr. H. T. Burley
[3]	Bring him home, C. L. Schonberg/A. Boubil
[4]	Portrait of my love, Cyril Ornadel arr. Mike Payne & Roger Brown
[5]	Softly as I leave you, A. de Vita & H. Shaper arr. Alan Simmons
[6]	Eriskay love lilt, M. Kennedy-Fraser arr. Hugh S. Roberton
[7]	September song, Kurt Weill
[8]	I'll walk beside you, Alan Murray
[9]	When I fall in love, Victor Young & Edward Heyman arr. Alan Simmons
[10]	She, Charles Aznavour arr. Alan Simmons
[11]	Bridge over trouble water, Paul Simon arr. Alan Simmons
[12]	Le onde (The sea) Ludovic Einaudi
[13]	Farewell to the piano, Ludwig van Beethoven
[14]	The rose, Amanda McBroom arr. Carol Sargent
[15]	Flying free, Don Besig arr. Carol Sargent
[16]	A workin' man, A song from Nova Scotia
[17]	A kiss in the night, Pedro de Carolis
[18]	Kashmiri love song, Amy Woodforde-Finden
[19]	Cole Porter Medley, Cole Porter arr. Alan Simmons
[20]	Shortnin' bread, American folk song arr. K. J. Dinham
[21]	Come back to Sorrento, Ernest De Curtis
[22]	Caro mio ben, Giuseppe Giordano
[23]	Gwahoddiad (I hear thy welcome voice), arr. John Tudor Davies
[24]	Morte Criste (When I survey) Emrys Jones
Total time: 79:19 Reviews & Comments This is a typical programme of male voice favourites who sing together for pleasure and to give pleasure to the many organisations who invite them to give concerts. Ed.

Strings in the Earth and Air

songs by Ernest j. Moeran, Peter Warlock, and Geoffrey Stern
Paul Martyn-West (tenor)
Nigel Foster (piano)
CD DRD0249 – £10-95 UK

ERNEST JOHN MOERAN (1894-1950) Six Folksongs from Norfolk (1923)
[1]	1. Down by the Riverside
[2]	2. The Bold Richard
[3]	3. Lonely Waters
[4]	4.The Pressgang
[5]	5.The Shooting of His Dear
[6]	6.The Oxford Sporting Blade
Seven Poems of James Joyce (1929)
[7]	1.Strings in the Earth and Air
[8]	2.The Merry Green Wood
[9]	3.Bright Cap
[10]	4.The Pleasant Valley
[11]	5.Donnycarney
[12]	6.Rain Has Fallen
[13]	7.Now, O Now, in this Brown Land
PETER WARLOCK (1894-1930) Candlelight: a cycle of nursery jingles
[14]	I How many miles to Babylon?
[15]	II I won’t be my father’s Jack
[16]	III Robin and Richard
[17]	IV O my kitten
[18]	V Little Tommy Tucker
[19]	VI There was an old man
[20]	VII I had a little pony
[21]	VIII Little Jack Jingle
[22]	IX There was a man of Thessaly
[23]	X Suky, you shall be my wife
[24]	XI There was an old woman
[25]	XII Arthur o’ Bower
Three songs
[26]	Along the stream (Li-Po)
[27]	Take, O take those lips away (Shakespeare)
[28]	Heracleitus (Callimachus)
A song of Bruce Blunt
[29]	The Fox
GEOFFREY STERN (1935-2005) Three Wordsworth Songs (1953)
[30]	To the cuckoo
[31]	She dwelt among untrodden ways
[32]	To an infant
Four songs of James Joyce
[33]	Lean out of your window (2005)
[34]	Strings in the Earth and Air (2005)
[35]	Now, O now in this brown land (2004)
[36]	Gentle Lady (undated)
A song of Henry Treece
[37]	Legend (1960)
Total time: 68:37 Reviews & Comments The heritage of 20th Century English song is perennially rewarding and fascinating and this CD presents a considerable number of relative rarities in that area. I had not heard of Geoffrey Stern...his Three Wordsworth Songs date from 1953 and show us a touching lyricism and good feeling for rhythm. The rumbustious "Legend"...from 1960 is entertaining. The Four James Joyce Songs are much more recent...two were written expressly for this recording. They are darker imaginations than Stern's earlier songs but they come across well in Mr. Martyn-West's intelligent interpretations, notable for their good diction, which are well supported by Mr. Foster's accompaniments. Moeran and Warlock knew each other very well and the central part of the CD is devoted to the latter. But the singing, here and indeed throughout this release, is excellent, as is the recording...No-one interested in British song can afford to be without this CD. Philip Scowcroft 0249 PS rev [The complete review will be sent gladly on request.] How interesting to have the opportunity to compare three of our greatest exponents of song in one CD...Moeran...spent much of his childhood in the relatively wild terrain of the Norfolk coast, and his collection of Norfolk Folksongs certainly have a salty air about them. The centrepiece of the recording is a group of works from Warlock...His collection of nursery songs, Candlelight, are thrown off by him as mere "jingles", but each is a miniature masterpiece with the imprint of genius. Geoffrey Stern is a composer whose work was new to me. (His songs) display a charming and timeless lyricism ideally suited to the poems of Wordsworth and Joyce. Serena Fenwick http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/cddvd/BritishSong.htm

The Great War

Remembered in songs & poems
Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone)
Nigel Foster (piano)
CD DRD0239 – £10-95 UK

	Anon.	[1]	I want to go home*
		War's Bright Embers
	Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)	[2]	The Dying Patriot	(J.E.Flecker)
		[3]	Everyone Sang	(S.Sassoon)
		[4]	If We Return	(F.W.Harvey)
		[5]	In Flanders	(F.W.Harvey)
		[6]	In Memoriam	(E.Thomas)
		[7]	I Heard a Soldier	(H.Trench)
		Four Songs of Rupert Brooke
	Geraint Lewis(b.1958)	[8]	It's Not Going to Happen Again
		[9]	The Treasure
		[10]	Clouds
		[11]	Song
		New Songs from the EP&SS Compettition
	Geoffrey Kimpton	[12]	Winter Warfare	(E.Rickword)
	Margaret Wegener	[13]	The Cenotaph	(C.Mew)
	John R. Williamson	[14]	Before the Battle	(S.Sassoon)
		[15]	I Stood with the Dead	(S.Sassoon)
	Duncan Reid	[16]	I Did Not Lose My Heart	(A.E.Housman)
	Dennis Wickens	[17]	Attack	(S.Sassoon)
	Elaine Hugh-Jones	[18]	The End	(W.Owen)
		Four Songs of War
	John Ireland(1879-1962)	[19]	The Soldier	(R.Brooke)
		[20]	Blind	(E.T.Cooper)
		[21]	The Cost	(E.T.Cooper)
		[22]	The Dead	(R.Brooke)
	Jerome Kern (1885-1945)	[23]	They Didn't Believe Me*
		[24]	Applause (foreshortened)	(R.Brooke)
Total time: 55:37 * with audience

The Tend'rest Breast

settings of women's poetry
Georgina Colwell (soprano);
Nigel Foster (piano)
CD DRD0237 – £10-95 UK

ROGER QUILTER (1877-1953)
[1]	June (1905)	Nora Hopper
[2]	A song at parting (1952)	Christina Rossetti
[3]	Wild cherry (1938)	Olive Mary Denson
FRANK BRIDGE (1879-1941)		Mary E Coleridge
[4]	Thy hand in mine, H124 (1917)
[5]	Where she lies asleep, H113 (1914)
[6]	Love went a-riding, H114(1914)
IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937)		Seven Sappho songs (1919)
[7]	Soft was the wind
[8]	I shall be ever maiden
[9]	The apple orchard
[10]	Hesperus
[11]	Love shakes my soul
[12]	The quiet mist
[13]	Lonely night
LENNOX BERKELEY (1903-1989)		Sappho
[14]	Three Greek Songs, Op.38 (1953): I Epitaph of Timas
JOHN IRELAND (1879- 1962)		Two Songs Sacred and Profane (1929-31)
[15]	No. 1: The advent	Alice Meynell
[16]	No. 2: Hymn for a child	Sylvia Townsend Warner
[17]	Love and friendship (1926)	Emily Brontë
ALASTAIR KING		Kathleen Raine
[18]	Nocturne
[19]	The moment
[20]	Spell to bring lost creatures home
MADELEINE DRING (1923-77)		Madeleine Dring
[21]	Don't play your sonata tonight, Mister Humphries
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS (1885-1969)
[22]	When April laughs, Op.26 No.5	Frances Mary Marsden
[23]	Hush'd is my lute, Op.26 No.2	Gwendolen Paget
[24]	Sing, joyous bird, Op.24 No.4	Nora Usher
Total time: 58:48

St. Ann's Church, Manchester
A Service of Music and Readings for Advent

Sunday,November 28th, 2004 at 5.00pm
Rector: Rev. Canon Roger Hill, M.A.
Associate Rector: Rev. Gisela Rains, B.D.
Musical Director: Ronald Frost B.Mus., FRCO., FRMCM., Hon. RSCM., FRSA
Organist: Philip Asher
CD DRD0235 LIVE recording – £10-95 UK

[1]	Choir: Matin Responsory (sung at the West End)
[2]	Hymn: CP49: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth – M. Praetorius harmonised G. R. Woodward
[3]	Bidding Prayer and the Lord's Prayer
[4]	The First Advent Candle is lit & Responses
[5]	First lesson: Isaiah 40.1-8 The prophet proclaims good news to a people in exile
[6]	Choir: People, look East! – An old Besançon carol tune
[7]	Second lesson: Jeremiah 23.5-6 The Lord promises to send his people a righteous King
[8]	Hymn: CP32: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel – French Missal adapted T. Helmore
[9]	Third lesson: Zechariah 9.9 & 10 The King comes in humility
[10]	Choir: King Jesus hath a gardenDutch carol arr. C.Wood
[11]	Hymn:CP37: The Lord will come and not be slow – W.Jones
[12]	Fourth lesson: Isaiah 35.1-6 The prophet foretells the glory of the Kingdom of God
[13]	Choir: 'Twas in the year that King Uzziah died – G.Bush
[14]	The cherry tree carol – Trad. arr D. Willcocks
[15]	Hymn: CP34: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry – Adapted from a chorale
[16]	Fifth lesson: St. Luke 1.26-35 & 38 The angel Gabriel salutes the Blessed Virgin Mary
[17]	Hymn: CP39: Wake, O wake! With tidings thrilling* – P. Nicolai (melody) adapted and harmonised J. S. Bach
[18]	Sixth lesson: St. Mark 1.1-4a & 7-15 Jesus proclaims the Kingdom of God
[19]	Choir: My dancing day Trad. arr. D. Willcocks
[20]	The Advent Collect and Blessing
[21]	Hymn: CP31: Lo, he comes with clouds descending – T. Olivers (melody)
[22]	Organ**:Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland (BWV661) – J. S. Bach
Total time: 52:10 *On this recording the second verse is omitted **played by Ronald Frost

The Wagon of Life

Songs of Nature, Life, and Love in Time and Place
Mark Rowlinson (baritone)
Peter Lawson (piano)
CD DRD0220 - £10-95 UK

Thomas Pitfield (1903-1999)
[1]	The wagon of life
[2]	By the Dee at Night
[3]	September Lovers
Stuart Scott (b.1949)
[4]	Alderley
[5]	Gawsworth
[6]	Fall, Leaves, Fall
[7]	Night Clouds
Geoffrey Kimpton (b.1927)
[8]	Noah
[9]	Faintheart in a Railway Station
[10]	The Poor Man's Pig
Joanna Treasure (b.1961)
[11]	Tango[Do You Remember?]
[12]	I saw the Girl
John R. Williamson (b.1929)
[13]	The Recruit
[14]	White in the Moon
[15]	Think No More Lad
Stephen Wilkinson b.1919)
[16]	The Sunlight on the Garden
[17]	The Garden
Philip Wood (b.1972)
[18]	Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Sasha Johnson Manning (b.1963)
[19]	My Song Shall be of Mercy and Judgement
[20]	The Lord is King
Kevin George Brown (b.1959)
[21]	Dying Day
[22]	Description of Spring
David Golightly (b.1948) Songs of the Clifftop
[23]	Sea Bird
[24]	After the Kill
[25]	Puffin
David Forshaw (b.1938)
[26]	The Owl
[27]	Whale Song
[28]	Horse
Total time: 79:24

Celebration

The 25th Anniversary of the re-forming of St. Ann's Choir, Manchester.
St. Ann's Choir directed by Ronald Frost.
Rachel Dent (Harp), Anja Caffelle (Bassoon), Andrew Shaw (Organ).
Recorded 'live' at the celebration given in St. Ann's Church, St. Ann Street, Manchester on October 14th, 2003.
CD DRD0215 - £10-95 UK

Lights Out

Songs by Ivor Gurney, Ernest J Moeran, Sulyan Caradon and others
Georgina Colwell (soprano); Clare Griffel (mezzo); Paul Martyn-West (tenor); Jonathan Wood (baritone; Nigel Foster & Peter Jacobs (piano); Richard Carder (saxophone); Patrick Miles (bass- clarinet) and Ian Partridge (tenor).
Recorded on May 6th, 2003, in St Cyprian's Church, London
CD DRD0200 Live recording - £10-95 UK

[1]	S. Wesley: Birthday song
[2]	H. Purcell: If music be ...
[3]	S. Caradon: Clouds
[4]	S. Caradon: The Dancer
[5]	E. J. Moeran: Rosefrail
[6]	E. J. Moeran: Rahoon
[7]	E. J. Moeran: Loveliest of ...
[8]	S. Caradon: Dorian dirge
[9]	S. Caradon: Lelant
E. J. Moeran: Six songs of Seumus O’Sullivan
[10]	1. Evening
[11]	2. The Poplars
[12]	3. A Cottager
[13]	4. The Dustman
[14]	5. Lullaby
[15]	6. The Herdsman
[16]	S. Caradon: Dawn
[17]	A. Edgar: Lyonesse
[18]	I. Gurney: Down by the Salley gardens
[19]	I. Gurney: All night under ...
[20]	I. Gurney: Severn meadows
[21]	I. Gurney: Nine of the clock
[22]	J. Whitton: Little Vagabond
[23]	L. Shur: The smile
[24]	S. Rodgers: Acacia tree
[25]	S. Caradon: Margaret’s song
Ivor Gurney: Lights out
[26]	1. Scents
[27]	2. Bright clouds
[28]	3. Penny whistle
[29]	4. Will you come?
[30]	5. Lights out
[31]	S. Caradon: O lovely England
Total time: 75:08

Wassail Rhapsody

The Henbury Singers: Conductor: Oliver Barton
The Zephyrian Woodwind Orchestra: Conductor: Richard Carder
Recorded at a public performance given in
Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church, Bristol
on Saturday, December 7th, 2002
CD DRD0198 Live recording - £10-95 UK

John Ellis
Serenity

a song sequence and organ meditation
Mary Hitch - Soprano
John Ellis - Organ
CD DRD0194 - £10-95 UK

Celtic prayers (2000)
[1]	Let us praise God
[2]	Lord be with us this day
[3]	I lie down this night
[4]	May God the Father bless us
[5]	Psalm 23: The Lord’s my Shepherd (1999)
[6]	Psalm 130 v. 1-5: Out of the depths (1999)
Farewell (1997)
[7]	I feel
[8]	Farewell
[9]	Indian prayer
[10]	Meditation (rev. 2002)
Three prayer meditations (2001)
[11]	Serenity
[12]	The guiding light of eternity
[13]	Irish blessing
Total time: 42:10

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

St. Ann's Choir, Manchester leads this annual service.
Recorded on Sunday, December 23rd, 2001
St. Ann's Choir, St. Ann's Church, Manchester
Ronald Frost B.Mus., FRCO., FRMCM., Hon. RSCM., FRSA – Musical Director
Kristian Anderson – Organist
CD DRD0188 Live recording – £10-95 UK

Songs of Dorset

Finzi, Vaughan Williams, Carey, & Somervell
together with the five best songs from
The English Poetry & Song Society composers' competition, 2001.
Stephen Foulkes – Baritone
Colin Hunt – Piano
CD DRD0186 Live recording – £10-95 UK

*Poem by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
**Poem by William Barnes (1801-1886)

Clare and David Lesser

a recital of contemporary music for voice and piano
Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Rihm, Aaron Copland,
Cathy Berberian, David Lesser, Benjamin Britten,
Francis Poulenc, and Arthur Honegger
Clare Lesser – Soprano
David Lesser – Piano
CD DRD0161 Live recording – £10-95

Cathy Berberian

New Century Classics
DAVID W SOLOMONS
The Songs of Solomons

Stephen Taylor – Counter-tenor
Jonathan Leonard – Piano
CD NCC2003 – £12.00 UK

DRD0139: I will give my Spirit:
“The Last Supper” (Eric Thiman) and “The Wind of Change” (Philip Shapiro)

ChantiClare

a recital of works from the contemporary vocal repertoire
Clare Lesser (soprano)
David Lesser (piano)
CD DRD0106 – £10.95 UK

[1]	Song 15 (1976) Michael Finnissy (b.1946)
Hô, cinq vocalises pour voix de femme (1960) Giacinto Scelsi (1905-88)
[2]	I
[3]	II
[4]	IV
[5]	Being Beauteous (1963) Hans Werner Henze (b.1926) with David Lesser (piano)
[6]	Die Sieben Plagen (1974) Milko Keleman (b.1924)
Virgil settings (1995) David Lesser (b.1966)
[7]	I
[8]	II
[9]	III
[10]	IV
[11]	V
[12]	VI
[13]	VII
[14]	VIII
[15]	IX
[16]	X
[17]	Stripsody (1966) Cathy Berberian (1928-83)

* Owing to the city centre location of the Birmingham Conservatoire Recital Room, some traffic noise is present from time to time. Ed.