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The Power of Love - An English Songbook

CDA67888

DDD
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 73'18"
Tracks: 27
Booklet pages: 24
© 2012 Hyperion Records Ltd
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of The Power of Love - An English Songbook published on 7 September 2012

Listen: Gurney: Lights Out (track 25, 0:00-0:58)

Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Graham Johnson, piano

James Lynam Molloy (1837-1909):
1 Love's old sweet song

Maude Valérie White (1855-1937):
2 So we'll go no more a-roving
3 The Spring has come
4 The Devout Lover

Edward Elgar (1857-1934):
5 Speak, music Op 41 No 2
6 Pleading Op 48 No 1

Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
7 Ah, moon of my delight
8 Love, if you knew the light

Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1872-1958):
9 Silent noon (No 2 of The House of Life)

Graham Peel (1877-1937):
10 Almond, wild almond
11 The early morning

Roger Quilter (1877-1953):
12 There be none of Beauty's daughters Op 24 No 1
13 Now sleeps the crimson petal Op 3 No 2
14 Love's Philosophy Op 3 No 1

Percy Grainger (1882-1961):
15 The power of love (from Danish Folk-Music Settings)

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960):
16 Hypochondriacus

Liza Lehmann:
17 Pa's bank

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs:
18 A Song of Shadows Op 15 No 3

Peter Warlock (1894-1930):
19 Take, o take those lips away
20 The night (No 2 of Three Belloc Songs)
21 Queen Anne

Ernest John Moeran (1894-1950):
22 In youth is pleasure

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937):
23 Goodnight to the meadow
24 The boat is chafing
25 Lights Out (No 4 of Lights Out)

Gustav Holst (1874-1934):
26 Journey's End (No 9 of Twelve Songs H174 Op 48)
27 Betelgeuse (No 12 of Twelve Songs H174 Op 48)

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