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Strings in the Earth and Air

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Playing time: 68'37"
Tracks: 37
Booklet pages: 24
© 2005 Dunelm Records, 2010 Divine Art Ltd
Reviewer: Patric Standford
Review of Strings in the Earth and Air published on 4 January 2011

Paul Martyn-West, tenor
Nigel Foster, piano

Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950):

Six Folksongs from Norfolk (1923) collected and arranged by E J Moeran
1 Down by the Riverside
2 The Bold 'Richard'
3 Lonely Waters
4 The Pressgang
5 The Shooting of His Dear
6 The Oxford Sporting Blade

Seven Poems of James Joyce (1929)

7 Strings in the Earth and Air
8 The Merry Green Wood
9 Bright Cap
10 The Pleasant Valley
11 Donnycarney
12 Rain Has Fallen
13 Now, O Now, in this Brown Land

Peter Warlock (1894-1930):

Candlelight - a cycle of nursery jingles (1923)

14 How many miles to Babylon?
15 I won't be my father's Jack
16 Robin and Richard
17 O my kitten
18 Little Tommy Tucker
19 There was an old man
20 I had a little pony
21 Little Jack Jingle
22 There was a man of Thessaly
23 Suky, you shall be my wife
24 There was an old woman
25 Arthur o' Bower

Three Songs (1916-17)

26 Along the Stream (Li-Po, translated by L Cranmer-Byng)
27 Take, o take those lips away
28 Heraclitus (Callimachus, translated by William Cory)

29 The Fox (1930) (Bruce Blunt)

Geoffrey Stern (1935-2005):

Three Wordsworth Songs (1953)

30 To the cuckoo
31 She dwelt among the untrodden ways
32 To an infant

Four Songs of James Joyce (2001-5)

33 Lean out of your window (2005)
34 Strings in the Earth and Air (2005)
35 Now, O now in this brown land (2001)
36 Gentle Lady (undated)

37 Legend (1960) (Henry Treece)

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