Robin Milford: Piano Music and Songs

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My Lady’s Pleasure, for piano

1. Pastorale
2. Gavotte
3. Jig

Four Hardy Songs (Hardy)


4. No. 2, ‘The Colour’
5. No. 4, ‘Tolerance’
6. Cradle Song (Blake)
7. Daybreak (Donne)

Reputation Square, for piano


8. Matthew’s and Welch’s
9. Reputation Square
10. George’s, and the New Wells Hornpipe
11. Trim the French
12. Jack in his Trousers
13. Jupiter in the Clouds

Four Songs (Bridges), Nos 1, 2 and 4


14. No. 1, ‘So Sweet Love Seemed’
15. No. 2, ‘Elegy’
16. No. 4, ‘Love on my Heart’

Four Seasonable Songs, Nos. 2 and 4


17. No. 2, ‘Summer. Pleasure It Is’ (Cornish)
18. No. 4, ‘Winter. This Endris Night’ (Anon)

Prelude, Air and Finale (on a well-known mordent), for piano


19. Prelude
20. Air
21. Finale

Swan Songs


22. No. 1, ‘Song of St Mary the Virgin (The Magnificat)’
23. No. 2, ‘The Song of Simeon (The Nunc Dimittis)’
24. No. 3, ‘Idleness’ (Young)
25. No. 4, ‘Christmas Day’ (Young)
26. No. 5, ‘In Cornwall’ (Ridler)
27. No. 6, ‘Expectans Expectavi’ (Ridler)
28. No. 7, ‘The Holy Tide’ (Tennyson)
29. No. 8, ‘The Glance’ (Herbert)
30. No. 9, ‘Sleep’ (Williams)

Jenifer’s Jingle, for piano


31. Days and Moments
32. II. Autumn: No. 4, ‘An Epitaph’ (Walter de la Mare)