Volume I of ‘100 Years of British Song’, a three-CD project with tenor James Gilchrist for SOMM Recordings, is released today, 16 October 2020.
You can now listen to the tracks on Spotify and Apple Music. It is an Apple Music featured new release in their #Modernism category. You can find further information to purchase the CD on the SOMM website.
100 Years of British Song Volume I playlist:
Gustav Holst:
A Vigil of Pentecost (Alice M. Buckton) (1914)
The Ballad of Hunting Knowe (E. A. Ramsden) (1920s)
From Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs (1929):
Persephone
A Little Music
The Dream-City
The Floral Bandit
Betelgeuse
Rebecca Clarke:
June Twilight (John Masefield) (1925)
The Seal Man (John Masefield, from ‘A Mainsail Haul’) (1922)
A Dream (W. B. Yeats) (1926)
Eight O’Clock (A. E. Housman) (1927)
Ivor Gurney:
Down by the Salley Gardens (W. B. Yeats) (1920)
Snow (Edward Thomas) (1912)
Lights Out (Edward Thomas) (1919)
Sleep (John Fletcher) (1913)
Frank Bridge:
Four Songs (1925)