BLISS: Sonata for Piano and Violin
HOWELLS: Sonata no.3 in E minor for Violin and Piano
ALWYN: Sonatina
ELGAR: Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.82
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano
IRELAND: Sonatina
DYSON: Primrose Mount
DYSON: Four Preludes
BAINTON: Willows
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BAINTON: The Making of the Nightingale
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BAINTON: Visions
ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Ballade in D-flat
BAX: Piano Sonata no.2
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano
BLOW: Lysander, I pursue in vain
PURCELL: Music for a while
PURCELL: Bess of Bedlam
FROBERGER: Lamentations
ECCLES: I burn, my brain consumes to ashes
HUMFREY: A Hymn to God the Father
PURCELL: Not all my torments
HANDEL: Sarai contenta un dì
PURCELL: How long, great God?
PURCELL: Evening Hymn
HANDEL: Occhi miei, che faceste?
PURCELL: From rosy bow’rs
BETHANY SEYMOUR | soprano
PETER SEYMOUR | harpsichord
PURCELL: Funeral Sentences
PURCELL: Remember not, Lord, our offences
PURCELL: I was glad
PURCELL: Hear my Prayer, O Lord
PURCELL: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei!
PURCELL: O Dive custos
PURCELL: Evening Hymn
PURCELL: The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation
PURCELL: How long, great God?
BLOW: Salvator mundi
BLOW: Behold, O God our Defender
BLOW: Epicedium for Queen Mary
YORKSHIRE BACH CHOIR
PETER SEYMOUR | conductor; harpsichord
FINZI: Earth and Air and Rain, op.15
GURNEY: Snow
GURNEY: Desire in Springtime
TRIMBLE: Green Rain
GURNEY: The Fiddler of Dooney
WARLOCK: The Fox
WARLOCK: Jillian of Berry
IRELAND: Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy
IRELAND: The Trellis
IRELAND: My true love hath my heart
DELIUS: The Bird’s Song
DELIUS: I-Brasil
ELIZABETH THOMPSON | soprano
LORNA DAY | mezzo-soprano
PETER LIDBETTER | bass-baritone
DAVID JONES | piano
HOLBROOKE: Come, let us make love deathless
HOLBROOKE: I came at morn
HOLBROOKE: Homeland
HOLBROOKE: Killary
HOLST: selection from Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs
LAMBERT: Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches
WALTON: Siesta
LAMBERT: Eight Poems by Li Po
WALTON (arr. Constant Lambert): Façade Suites no.s 1 and 2
JAMES GEER | tenor
ANDREW WEST | piano
RONALD WOODLEY | piano
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