The song cycle 'Lunar Beauty' was commissioned by the Harrogate International Festival. First performed on 9th August 1986. Arranged for tenor or medium voice and guitar. Duration 12 minutes.

54 LiederContent : BEFORE AND AFTER SUMMER: Childhood among the Ferns - Before and after Summer - The Self-unseeing - Overlooking the River - Channel Firing - In the Mind's Eye - The Too Short Time - Epeisodia - Amabel - He Abjures LoveEARTH AND AIR AND RAIN: Summer Schemes - When I set out for Lyonnesse - Waiting for Both - The Phantom - So I have fared - Rollicum-Rorum - To Lizbie - The Clock of the Years - In a Churchyard - Proud SongstersI SAID TO LOVE:I need not go - At Middle-Field Gate in February - Two Lips - In five-score - Summers - For Life I had never cared greatly - I said to Love LET US GARLANDS BRING: Come away, come away, death - Who is Sylvia' - Fear no more the heat o' the sun - O Mistress Mine - It was a lover and his lassLOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST:Songs for Heims and Ver (Song for Moth) - Riddle Song - False ColcolinelOH FAIR TO SEE:I say I'll seek her - Oh fair to see - As I lay in the early sun - Only the wanderer - To Joy - Harvest - Since we lovedTILL EARTH OUTWEARS: Let me enjoy the earth - In years defaced - The Market-Girl - I look into my glass - It never looks like summer - At a lunar Eclipse - Life Laughs OnwardTO A POET:To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence - On Parent Knees - Intrada - The Birthnight - June on Castle Hill - Ode on the rejection of St. Cecelia

The text for this piece is taken from five poems by W.H. Auden and one by Louis MacNiece.