Swann but no Flanders: this economically priced collection celebrates the unique talents of a gifted songwriter whose settings of poets from Burns to Betjeman are ripe for revival. The quartet of distinguished singers is luxury casting.
CD 1
1. The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
2. Margate 1940
3. Senex
4. A Subaltern's Love Song
5. Farewell
6. I Died for Beauty
7. I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain
8. Dying
9. I Had No Time to Hate
10. And Must I Then, Indeed, Pain, Live With You
11. Thou Famished Grave, I Will Not Fill Thee Yet
12. Stopping By Woods
13. Thoughts of Phena
14. Before Life and After
15. Be Near Me When My Light Is Low
16. Oh Yet We Trust That Somehow Good
17. The Wish
18. There Rolls the Deep
19. When I Am Dead, My Dearest
20. A Better Resurrection
21. Dark Rose of My Heart
22. An Invite to Eternity
23. The Harlot's House
CD 2
1. The Garden of Love
2. Ah! Sun-flower
3. The Sick Rose
4. The Angel
5. The Fly
6. Proverb
7. I Loved You Once
8. She Is All Harmony, All Wonder
9. Some People's Dreams
10. Marguerite
11. A Red, Red Rose
12. It Was a Lover, and His Lass
13. See, Dearest, How the Rose
14. Arcades
15. We'll Go No More A-roving
16. Longing
17. Oh, Why Are the Roses So Pale?
18. Old Songs of Lost Love
19. In the Mist
20. Raiders' Dawn
21. The Youth of the Heart
22. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
23. Bilbo's Last Song |
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