Love's Voice

IVOR GURNEY (1890-1937

1

On Wenlock Edge

2:56

2

Bread and cherries

0:53

3

Down by the salley gardens

2:43

JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962)

4

Friendship in misfortune

1:48

5

The three ravens

3:30

6

The trellis

3:24

IAN VENABLES (b. 1955)

Love's Voice, Op. 22

15:43

7

Fortunagte isles

3:02

8

The passing stranger

3:29

9

The invigtation to the gondola

4:18

10

Love's voice

4:54

IVOR GURNEY

11

Ha'nacker Mill (Hilaire Belloc)

2:09

12

Snow (Edward Thomas)

2:39

13

Hawk and Buckle (Robert Graves)

1:10

GERALD FINZI (1901-1956)

Oh Fair to see, Op. 13b

17:26

14

I say 'I'll seek her side' (Thomas Hardy)

2:52

15

Of fair to see (Christina Rossetti)

1:35

16

As I lay in the early sun (Edward Shanks)

1:46

17

Only the wanderer (Ivor Gurney)

1:56

18

To Joy (Edmund Blunden)

3:48

19

Harvest (Edmund Blunden)

4:14

20

Since we loved (Robert Bridges)

1:15

IAN VENABLES

21

Vitae summa brevis, Op. 33 No. 3 (Ernest Dowson)

3:32

22

Flying crokked, Op. 28 No. 1 (Robert Graves)

1:08

23

At midnight, Op. 28 No. 2 (Edna St Vincent Millay)

4:08

24

The hippo, Op. 33 No. 6 (Theodore Roethke)

1:40

JOHN IRELAND

The Land of Lost Content (A.E. Housman)

11:36

25

The Lent lily

2:51

26

Ladslove

2:22

27

Goal and wicket

1:02

28

The vain desire

2:29

29

The encounter

1:19

30

Epilogue

1:33

Nathan Vale tenor

Paul Plummer piano

13-15 February 2006