ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Songs of Springtime
13:30
Seven Elizabethan poems set for Mixed Chorus (SATB)
1.
1
Under the Greenwood Tree
1:09
Animato, ma non troppo
2.
2
The River-God's Song
1:22
Molto sostenuto
3.
3
Spring, the Sweet Spring
1:27
Allegro
4.
4
Love is a Sickness
3:24
Andante
Soloist: Anna Crookes (soprano)
5.
5
Sigh no more, Ladies
1:34
Animato, ma non troppo
Allegro molto
Andante
Phyllida and Corydon
27:49
Choral Suite for SATB
Premier recording
8.
1
Madrigal - Phyllida and Corydon
3:29
Allegro con brio
9.
2
Madrigal - Beauty sat bathing by a spring
4:56
Andante
10.
3
Pastoral - On a hill there grows a flower
3:17
Andante sostenuto
Soloist: Rachel Wheatley (soprano)
11.
4
Air - Phyllis inamorata
1:04
Con brio
12.
5
Ballet - Said I that Amaryllis
1:51
Presto
13.
6
Canzonet - The treasure of my heart
2:49
Andante con moto
14.
7
Air - While she lies sleeping
3:26
Lento
15.
8
Pastoral - Corydon, arise
2:59
Allegro moderato
16.
9
Madrigal - To meadows
3:27
Andante ma poco rubato
PETER WARLOCK
Con brio; quasi alla breve
18.
I Saw a Fair Maiden
3:38
Very slow and quiet
19.
Benedicamus Domino
1:19
Quick
Very slow: soft and veiled tone
21.
The Rich Cavalcade
2:55
Moderato
Very quietly, but not slow
23.
All the Flowers of the Spring
5:32
Very slowly
24.
As Dew in Aprylle
1:39
Fast and light
Very slow and quiet
26.
A Cornish Christmas Carol
4:03
To be sung fairly fast, with sudden alternations of
hardness and sweetness, of rude heartiness
and tenderness touched with awe
Choral: Finzi Singers
Conductor: Paul Spicer
17-18 September 1992