ERNEST JOHN MOERAN (1894-1950)

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1

Spring goeth all in white

1:21

(Robert Seymour Bridges)

Roderick Williams baritone

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2

When June is come

1:11

(Robert Seymour Bridges)

Roderick Williams baritone

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3

Mantle of Blue

1:56

(Padraic Colum)

Roderick Williams baritone

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4

Twilight

1:48

(John Edward Masefield)

Roderick Williams baritone

Ludlow Town

9:38

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

5

1

When smoke stood up from Ludlow

3:42

6

2

Farewell to barn and stack and tree

2:37

7

3

Say, lad, have you things to do?

1:28

8

4

The lads in their hundreds

1:51

Two Songs

3:13

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

9

1

The Bean Flower

2:03

(Dorothy Leigh Sayers)

10

2

Impromptu in March

1:10

(Doreen A.E. Wallace)

11

In Youth Is Pleasure

2:20

(Robert Wever)

Adrian Thompson tenor

12

The Merry Month of May

2:01

(Thomas Dekker)

Adrian Thompson tenor

13

A Dream of Death

3:06

(William Butler Yeats)

Roderick Williams baritone

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14

Come Away, Death

2:17

(William Shakespeare)

Roderick Williams baritone

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15

Troll the Bowl

1:23

(Thomas Dekker)

Roderick Williams baritone

16

Can't You Dance the Polka!

1:23

(Sea shanty, author anonymous)

Members of Weybridge Male Voice Choir

Roderick Williams baritone

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17

Mrs Dyer, the Baby Farmer

4:01

(Victorian crime ballad, author anonymous)

Members of Weybridge Male Voice Choir

Roderick Williams baritone

18

Maltworms

2:19

(Attributed to William Stevenson)

Members of Weybridge Male Voice Choir

Roderick Williams baritone

Seven Poems by James Joyce

12:10

Roderick Williams baritone

19

1

Strings in the earth and air

1:39

20

2

The Merry Green Wood

1:11

21

3

Bright cap

0:46

22

4

The Pleasant Valley

1:25

23

5

Donnycarney

1:23

24

6

Rain has fallen

1:47

25

7

Now, O now, in this brown land

3:59

26

When I came last to Ludlow

1:17

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

27

'Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town

1:31

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

28

Far in a western brookland

2:30

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

29

Loveliest of trees

1:41

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

30

Oh fair enough are sky and plain (first version)

2:22

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

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31

Oh fair enough are sky and plain (second version)

2:25

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

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32

Oh fair enough are sky and plain (third version)

2:46

(Alfred Edward Housman)

Roderick Williams baritone

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33

Weep you no more

2:15

(Sixteenth century, author anonymous)

Adrian Thompson tenor

34

The Sweet o' the Year

0:58

(William Shakespeare)

Adrian Thompson tenor

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35

The Day of Palms

3:18

(Arthur William Symons)

Adrian Thompson tenor

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36

Blue-eyed Spring

1:13

(Robert Nichols)

Adrian Thompson tenor

37

Rosefrail

1:18

(James Joyce)

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

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38

Tilly

2:26

(James Joyce)

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

39

Rahoon

3:04

(James Joyce)

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

Four English Lyrics

8:11

Adrian Thompson tenor

40

1

Cherry Ripe

1:54

(Thomas Campion)

41

2

Willow Song

1:30

(John Fletcher)

42

3

The Constant Lover

1:32

(William Browne)

43

4

The Passionate Shepherd

3:15

(Christopher Marlowe)

Four Shakespeare Songs

5:33

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

44

1

The Lover and his Lass

1:37

45

2

Where the bee sucks

1:38

46

3

When daisies pied

1:16

47

4

When icicles hang by the wall

1:12

48

Diaphenia

2:11

(Henry Chettle or Henry Constable)

Adrian Thompson tenor

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49

Rosaline

3:25

(Thomas Lodge)

Adrian Thompson tenor

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50

The Monk's Fancy

2:14

(Henry J. Hope)

Adrian Thompson tenor

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51

Invitation in Autumn

4:10

(Seumas O'Sullivan)

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

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52

If There Be Any Gods

1:19

(Seumas O'Sullivan)

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

Six Poems of Seumas O'Sullivan

12:23

Geraldine McGreevy soprano

53

1

Evening

1:59

54

2

The Poplars

2:13

55

3

A Cottager

2:02

56

4

The Dustman

1:04

57

5

Lullaby

2:29

58

6

The Herdsman

2:36

John Talbot piano

8, 9 and 11 September 2008 (songs for baritone), 20 and 22 January 2009 (songs for tenor), & 14 and 16 April 2009 (songs for soprano)