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Three Short Elegies |
William Drummond 1.Life a right shadow is 2.This world a hunting is 3.This life, which seems so fair |
Op.5 |
1926 |
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f.p. 23rd March 1936 BBC Broadcast BBC Singers conducted by Trevor Harvey. |
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Seven Unaccompanied Part Songs on Poems by Robert Bridges |
Robert Bridges 1.I praise the tender flower 2.I have loved flowers that fade 3.My spirit sang all day 4.Clear and gentle stream 5.Nightingales 6.Haste on, my joys! 7.Wherefore tonight so full of care. |
Op.17 |
1934/1937 |
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f.p. (complete) 29th December 1938 BBC Broadcast BBC Singers conducted by Trevor Hervey. |
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Thou didst delight my eyes - for men's voices |
Robert Bridges |
Op.32 |
1951 |
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f.p. not known |
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All this night- unaccompanied choral motet |
William Austin |
Op.33 |
1951 |
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f.p. 6th December 1951 St Paul’s Cathedral, London. University of London Musical Society conducted by C. Thornton Lofthouse. |
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White flowering days |
Edmund Blunden |
Op.37 |
1952/53 |
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f.p. 2nd June 1953 Royal Festival Hall London, Cambridge University Madrigal Society conducted by Boris Ord |
This work was commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain as one of the ten songs for A Garland for the Queen – composed to celebrate the coronation. |
