[ Naxos English Song Series / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 30 April 2006
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For his songs Somervell chose a wide variety of texts, with settings of poems from Shakespeare to Browning and Housman.
ARTHUR SOMERVELL
O mistress mine
Orpheus with his lute
Sweet Kate
Songs of Innocence
-The shepherd
-The blossom
-The lamb
-Nurse's Song
From the Song Cycle Maud
-Birds in the high Hall-garden
-Go not, happy day
-Come into the garden, Maud
James Lee's Wife
-James Lee's Wife speaks at the window
-By the fireside
-In the doorway
-On the cliff
-Among the rocks
The Bargain
Fain would I change that note
Shepherd's cradle song
Come to me in my dreams
Dainty little maiden
When Spring returns
The Shropshire Lad
-Lovliest of trees
-When I was one-and-twenty
-There pass the careless people
-In summer-time on Bredon
-The street sounds to a soldier's tread
-On the idle hill of summer
-White in the moon the long road lies
-Think no more lad, laugh, be jolly
-Into my heart an air that kills
-The lads in their hundreds