1 Good-night
2 To Lucasta on Going to the Wars
3 Sleep
4 Where shall the Lover Rest
5 What Part of Dread Eternity
6 Julia
7 From a City Window
8 My Heart is like a Singing Bird
9 Looking Backward
10 Proud Maisie
11 The Faithful Lover
12 Bright Star
13 Crabbed Age and Youth
14 Nightfall in Winter
15 Grapes
16 O Never Say that I was False of Heart
17 Dirge in Woods
18 A Girl to her Glass
19 There
20 O Mistress mine
21 Whence
22 Willow, Willow, Willow
23 And Yet I Love Her till I Die
24 Lay a Garland on my Hearse
25 Armida's Garden
26 If Thou would'st Ease thine Heart
27 A Welsh Lullaby

Recorded in the music room of Parry’s boyhood home– Highnam Court in Gloucestershire – this disc sees three of our finest singers shed an illuminating light on an area of the repertoire that has rarely graced the concert hall in recent times. As English song came into full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, Parry's substantial contribution to the genre became somewhat buried. Iain Burnside and his singers rediscover what has been forgotten by historical accident, and what a treasure chest of song they have found! Combining an innately English sensibility with a technical fastidiousness that owes much to the lieder of Brahms, Schumann and Wolf, every one of these songs demonstrates Parry’s fundamental concern for sincerity and proper declamation of the words. Still best known for two short choral works, Hubert Parry is at last undergoing something of a revival, and these beautifully articulated performances return his songs to the heart of his output, where the composer always felt they belonged.