Havergal Brian: Complete Choral Songs, Volume One
This item will be released on 6 June 2025.
The reputation of Havergal Brian (1876–1972) as a late-blossoming symphonist obscures the fact that he was an early-blossoming 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 many parts of Britain.
Joyful Company of Singers
Peter Broadbent, conductor
Finchley Children’s Music Group
Grace Rossiter, conductor
Listen To This Recording:
- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day (2:24)
- Soul Star (3:41)
- Come o’er the sea (2:57)
- Lullaby of an Infant Chief (2:30)
- Ah! County Guy, Serenade for equal voices (2:39)
- Violets (2:28)
- Fair Pledges of a Fruitful Tree (2:06)
- Grace for a Child (1:07)
- A Song of the Willow (1:39)
- And will he not come again? (2:26)
- Ye spotted snakes (2:48)
- Fear no more the heat of the sun (2:56)
- Under the Greenwood tree (1:54)
- Full fathom five (1:44)
- Come away, death (2:24)
- The Blossom (0:51)
- The Fly (1:12)
- The Little Boy Lost (1:07)
- The Little Boy Found (1:05)
- Piping down the Valleys Wild (1:54)
- The Chimney Sweeper (2:56)
- The Little Black Boy (4:37)
Prometheus Unbound
- From Unremembered Ages (1:55)
- The Path (4:59)
- There the Voluptuous Nightingales (3:27)
- There those Enchanted Eddies (2:56)
- Spring – sound the flute (1:31)
- Summer has come, Little Children (2:33)
- Goodbye to Summer (2:19)
- Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind (1:52)
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