St. Martin's Chamber Choir

Dreams All Too Brief

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CD Program

Part I.  Day Turns to Night
Sweet Day, So Cool C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
Good Night Thou Glorious Sun * Henry Smart (1813-1879)
To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
A Cradle Song * John Ireland (1879-1962)

Part II.  Landscape of Dreams
Serenade (Dreams All too Brief) Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Full Fathom Five * Charles Wood (1866-1926)
The Blue Bird Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924)
The Cloud-capp'd Towers R. Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Part III.  Stillness and Death
Nocturne * Granville Bantock (1868-1946)
The Shadows * Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Crossing the Bar * Henry Houseley (1851-1925)
Lay a Garland Robert L. de Pearsall (1795-1856)

Part IV.  Songs of Farewell

C. Hubert H. Parry
1. My soul, there is a country
2. I know my soul hath power
3. Never weather-beaten sail
4. There is an old belief
5. At the round Earth's imagined corners
6. Lord, let me know mine end

* Premier recording

Cover art: Windsor Park, near Bishopsgate, with a view of Windsor Castle (from a 19th century engraving)

 

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