Boyle The water mill
Gurney Black stitchel
Ireland Blow out, you bugles
Gurney Lights Out
Hugh-Jones Ad ream
Howells A Girl’s Song
Head A vagabond’s song
Weiland Six songs
Payne Adlestrop
Vaughan Williams Nocturne
Holst Darest thou now, O soul
Vaughan Williams Clear midnight
Stanford Joy, shipmate, joy
Bliss Gone, gone again is summer
Bliss Little elegy
Bliss Siege
Samuel Of swans, snails and geese
Samuel The memory of swans
Samuel Eine kleine snailmusik
Samuel Franz, a goose
Vaughan Williams Songs from the southern Appalachian Mountains
Roderick Williams Baritone
Iain Burnside Piano
Character and storytelling abound in this quintessentially English songbook from celebrated baritone Roderick Williams and duo partner pianist Iain Burnside. Traversing landscapes of memory, war, and nature this meticulously curated programme centres on the "Dymock Poets" and their contemporaries, featuring cherished works by Vaughan Williams, Gurney, and Howells alongside the pastoral wit of Rhian Samuel's animal sketches. From the haunting bugle calls of wartime to Whitman's transcendental verse, this recital captures the emotional vocabulary of a golden era in British composition.
This concert is kindly supported anonymously, and by Gaynor and Mark Scrivenger