Havergal Brian: Complete Choral Songs, Volume Two
This item will be released on 5 June 2026.
The reputation of Havergal Brian (1876–1972) as a late-blooming symphonist obscures the fact that he was an early-blooming composer of choral music for the huge market of amateur choirs thriving in Edwardian England. His choral songs range from simple unison settings for children’s or women’s voices to harmonically complex essays intended to tax the ability of groups taking part in the choral competitions once popular in regional Britain. This second selection includes four canons that Brian wrote in the early 1920s as contrapuntal studies for his mighty Gothic Symphony.
Joyful Company of Singers
Peter Broadbent, conductor
Finchley Children’s Music Group
Grace Rossiter, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- Daybreak (3:53)
- Tell me, thou soul of her I love (3:50)
- Stars of the Summer Night (5:17)
- Rondel: in a fairy Boat (2:00)
- Introit (2:16)
- Vital Spark of Heavenly flame (1:56)
- A Child’s Prayer (2:10)
- If I had but two little wings (1:15)
- Little White Lily (2:29)
- Tell me, where is fancy bred (1:14)
- It was a lover and his lass (1:29)
- Fairies’ Song (2:13)
- Absence (1:06)
- Pack, Clouds, Away (1:46)
- Pastoral: The Shepherd (1:28)
- Infant Joy (1:28)
- The Lamb (2:41)
- Laughing Song (0:50)
- The Fairy Palace (1:27)
- Spring, the sweet spring (1:42)
- The Lost Doll (1:22)
- The Dream (2:13)
- The Echoing Green (3:04)
- The Moon (2:37)
- The River (1:51)
- The Mountain and the Squirrel (1:12)
- What does little birdie say? (1:11)
- Shall I then be spared? (1:29)
- O Happiness, celestial fair (2:24)
- Sweet Solitude (2:34)
- The Phantom Wooer (2:41)
- He was a rat (1:33)
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