English Song Cycles

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Album Summary

Performers

• Rachel Elliott (Soprano)
• Hester Gomme
• Ruth Morris (Voice)
• Tanya Wicks (Soprano)
• Nick Hudson
• Piers Maxim (Organ)

Composers

• Arthur Bliss (1891 - 1975)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
• Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
• Edmund Rubbra (1901 - 1986)
• Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953)
• Lennox Berkeley (1903 - 1989)
• Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
• Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
• John Ireland (British Composer) (1879 - 1962)
• Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971)

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: St George's Church, Cambridge, England (06/1991).

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Works Details

Bliss, Sir Arthur : Aubade for Coronation Morning, for 2 solo voices and chorus (for "A Garland For The Queen"), F. 37

• Performers: Rachel Elliott (Soprano); Hester Gomme
• Running Time: 5 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1953

Bax, Arnold : What is it like to be Young and Fair, for SSAAT chorus

• Performer: Ruth Morris (Voice)
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1953

Tippett, Michael : Dance, Clarion Air, madrigal for chorus

• Running Time: 3 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1952

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Silence and music

• Running Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1953

Berkeley, Lennox : Spring at This Hour, for chorus, Op. 37/2

• Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1953

Ireland, John : The Hills, for chorus

• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1953

Howells, Herbert : Inheritance (for A Garland for the Queen)

• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1953

Finzi, Gerald : White-Flowering Days for chorus, Op 37

• Performers: Tanya Wicks (Soprano); Nick Hudson; Piers Maxim (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1953

Rawsthorne, Alan : Canzonet (for A Garland for the Queen)

• Performer: Rachel Elliott (Soprano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1953

Rubbra, Edmund : Salutation (from A Garland For The Queen)

• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1953

Britten, Benjamin : A. M. D. G. (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam), for chorus, Op. 17

• Running Time: 16 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1937

Britten, Benjamin : Sacred and Profane, medieval lyrics (8) for SSATB chorus, Op. 91

• Running Time: 14 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1975