Vaughan Williams
Bushes and Briars
Loch Lomond (Ian Partridge, tenor)
John Dory
Greensleeves
Ward, the Pirate
Ca’ the Yowes (Ian Partridge, tenor)
The Unquiet Grave
The Seeds of Love (Geoffrey Shaw, baritone)
Early in the Spring
The Turtle Dove (Christopher Keyte, baritone)
An Acre of Land (Susan Longfield, soprano)
Five English Folk Songs
I. The Dark Eyed Sailor
I.I The Spring Time of the Year
III. Just as the Tide was Flowing
IV. The Lover’s Ghost (Well met, my own true love)
V. Wassail Song
Gustav Holst
1. The Homecoming
2. Hymn to Manas
3. Eight Canons for equal voices
4. The Fields of Sorrow
5. David’s Lament for Jonathan
6. Truth of All Truth
7. Six Choral Folk Songs
8. 4. The Song of the Blacksmith
9. I sowed the seeds of love
10. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
11. 5. I love my love
12. 6. Swansea Town
“RVW's settings again reflect his song collecting; his friend Holst's are more eclectic, including Hardy poems and the Rig Veda. Somewhat Edwardian in the fa-la manner but atmospherically beautiful and finely sung.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2008 ****
