Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795–1856):
1 Sing we and chaunt it [1'02]
2 Light of my soul [3'20]
3 Summer is y’ coming in [1'01]
4 Great god of love [2'30]
5 Lay a garland [3'16]

Henry Leslie (1822–1896):
6 My love is fair [2'53]
7 Thine eyes so bright [5'54]

Sir John Stainer (1840–1901):
8 Disappointment [4'58]
9 Dry your sweet cheek [3'37]
10 Like as a ship [5'03]
11 The castle by the sea [6'48]
12 Flora’s Queen [5'15]

Arthur Murray Goodhart (1866–1941):
13 Lady on the silver throne [3'44]
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934):
14 To her beneath whose steadfast star [5'34]

Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918):
15 Who can dwell with greatness! [3'06]
16 La belle dame sans merci [8'08]

R Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924):
17 God and the universe No 2 of Songs of Faith, Op 97 [5'36]
18 On Time Op 142

The church music of Victorian England has always retained a secure foothold; not so the secular partsongs recorded here. Written to complement the Elizabethan madrigals which were then being rediscovered and performed, an unjustly neglected corner of the English vocal repertoire is revitalized by Rupert Gough and Royal Holloway Choir