SIR EDWARD ELGAR
The Torch op.60 no.1 (1909 orch. 1912) words: Elgar
The Wind at Dawn (1888 orch. 1912) words: Caroline Alice Roberts
Pleading op.48 no.1 (1908) words: Arthur Leslie Salmon
Like to the Damask Rose (1892) words: Simon Wastell; Orch. G Williams
The Shepherd’s Song op.16 no.1 (1892) words: Barry Pain; Orch. Lionel Salter
Song Cycle op.59 (1910) words: Sir Gilbert Parker
O Soft Was the Song
Was it Some Golden Star?
Twilight
There are Seven that Pull the Thread from ‘Grania and Diarmid’ op.42 (1901) words: George Moore

The Sun Goeth Down from ‘The Kingdom’ op.51 (1906)
Cynthia Fleming (solo violin)

ERIC GRITTON
O Stay, Madonna† (1910) words: Lord Macauley; Orch. in 2008 by Robin Gritton

SIR HUBERT PARRY
Guenever’s Soliloquy from ‘Guenever’ Act I, Scene 4 (1886 orch. 1995)† Orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble

JOHN SANDERS
Evening on Severn no.4 from ‘Gloucestershire Visions’† (1988 orch. 1994) words: Leonard Clark

JOHN IRELAND
Five Songs for Soprano & Orchestra‡; Orchestrated in 2008 by Graham Parlett
Love and Friendship (1926) words: Emily Brontë
My True Love Hath My Heart (1920) words: Sir Philip Sydney
The Trellis (1920) words: Aldous Huxley
Adoration (1918) words: Arthur Symons
I Have Twelve Oxen (1918) Anon
Four Songs for Soprano & Strings‡ Orchestrated in 2008 by Graham Parlett
The Salley Gardens (c. 1931) words: William Butler Yeats
The Heart’s Desire (1917) words: Alfred Edward Housman
Baby (1918) words: Christina Rossetti
Her Song (1925) words: Thomas Hardy

Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Cynthia Fleming (leader)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

† World premiere recording
‡ World premiere recording (in this version)

Recorded:
The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 27-29 January 2009

CDLX 7228

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