Musical Romanticism, explored by Pieter de Oude.
1. Ralph Vaughan Williams – Songs of Travel after a text by Robert Louis Stevenson
a. The vagabond,
b. Let beauty awake,
c. The roadside fire,
d. Youth and love,
e. In dreams,
f. The infinite shining heavens,
g. Whither must I wander,
h. Bright is the ring of words
i. I have trod the upward and the downward slope.
2. Gerald Finzi – Let Us Garlands Bring after a text by Shakespeare
a. Come away, come away, death,
b. Who is Sylvia?,
c. Fear no more the heat o’the sun,
d. O mistress mine
e. It was a lover and his lass.
3. George Butterworth. – A Shropshire Lad poems by A. E. Housman.
a. Loveliest of trees,
b. When I was one-and-twenty,
c. Look not in my eyes,
d. Think no more, lad,
e. The lads in the hundreds
f. Is my team ploughing?
Bryn Terfel, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano.
