Edited by Geoffrey Bush and Michael Hurd Nine glees and madrigals for three and four parts by Atterbury, Baildon, Beale, Hindle, Horsley, Paxton, Pring, Stevens and Webbe. CONTENTS PAXTON, William Breathe soft, ye winds (TBarB) BAILDON, Joseph When gay Bacchus (ATB) STEVENS, R J S Prithee, foolish boy (ATB) PRING, Jacob Cubitt How bright were the blushes of morn (ATB) ATTERBURY, Luffman Adieu ye streams (ATBarB) WEBBE, Samuel Oh gentle Love (ATBarB) HINDLE, John Queen of the silver bow (ATBarB) HORSLEY, William Nymphs of the forest (ATBarB) BEALE, William Come let us join the roundelay (ATBarB)

Par CATTLEY SARAH. Written for baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Susie Allan to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the five Frances Cornford settings of A Square and Candle-Lighted Boat further enhance Sarah Cattley’s reputation as an exciting young composer acutely sensitive to the nuances of English poetry. In addition to familiar sources ranging from ‘anon’ to George Mackay Brown, she has found inspiration in the work of women writers including Charlotte Brontë, Fredegond Shove, Moyra Tourlamain and Ursula Vaughan Williams. The finely tuned voice of Cambridge poet Frances Cornford (1886–1960) appealed especially for the touching immediacy of its insights, its probing of emotions from a woman’s viewpoint, and its wide human sympathy. In creative antithesis to the Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel, for which it is intended as a companion piece, a love of home is the theme of the cycle, its domestic interiors and country views illuminated in the warm tones and vivid portrayals of Cattley’s music. Performances at Thaxted and Paxton preceded a London premiere on 12 October 2022, marking the occasion of Vaughan Williams’s birth 150 years ago to the day. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / Baryton et Piano