William Denis Browne:
To Gratiana Dancing and Singing

Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Linden Led
Silent Noon

Gerald Finzi:
The Sigh
Proud Songsters

Celia Harper:
My love gave me an apple

Roger Quilter:
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Go, lovely rose

Frank Bridge:
Come to me in my dreams

Eric Thiman:
I wandered lonely as a cloud

Jonathan Dove:
All You Who Sleep Tonight - VII. God’s love, XII. Soon, XIII. All you who sleep tonight

Rebecca Clarke:
The Seal Man

Ivor Gurney:
I will go with my father a-ploughing

Herbert Howells:
King David

Benjamin Britten:
Since she whom I loved

Peter Warlock:
Sleep

Iain Bell:
Feste (Come away, death)

Landon Ronald:
O lovely night! (bonus)

The Salley Gardens (arr. Benjamin Britten)

A journey through this distinctive musical genre, performed by some of the finest former members of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge with one of this generation’s most exceptional pianists.

Each of the nine alumni featured on this album sang as young adults at King’s, alongside accompanist Simon Lepper, a graduate of King’s. The songs included span settings of Shakespeare songs, those of prominent 20th Century composers Vaughan Williams, Britten, Finzi and Howells through contemporary works by the likes of Jonathan Dove, Celia Harper and Iain Bell.

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Recorded at 192kHz 24-bit PCM at All Saint’s Church, East Finchley, London, on 29 October 2019 and 10 February 2020.