Wordsworth: The Image Vocal Setting for High Voice: High Voice: Vocal Work

Written for the Santa Fe Desert Chorale this setting of the famous Wordsworth sonnet explores the conflict between the material world and nature. Word painting and vocal imagery create a compelling world of sound and texture inthis short a cappella work. Duration: ca. 5:20.

Hardback-This volume contains newly edited versions of all William Walton's songs for voice and piano together with Anon in Love for voice and guitar and songs from radio plays. It also includes the first publication of the scores of the orchestral versions of Anon in Love and A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table.William Walton wrote songs throughout his life the first 'Tell me where is Fancy bred?' written when he was a chorister at Christ Church Oxford the last A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table a song-cycle for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf written in the early 1960s. They all reveal his earfor word-setting an imaginative response to the text and an ability to conjure striking musical images from his chosen material.Shakespeare: Tell me where is Fancy bred?Shakespeare: Tell me where is Fancy bred? - arr. pianoFour Swinburne Songs1. Child's Song2. Song3. A Lyke-wake Song4. The WindsWilliam Drummond: TritonsThree Songs to poems by Edith Sitwell1. Daphne2. Through Gilded Trellises3. Old Sir FaulkShakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree - low voiceShakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree - medium voiceLouis MacNeice: Beatriz's SongLouis MacNeice: Beatriz's Song - arr. pianoAnon.: Anon. in Love1. Fain would I change that note2. O stay sweet love3. Lady when I behold the roses4. My Love in her attire5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale6. To couple is a customA Song for the Lord Mayor's TableThomas Jordan: 1. The Lord Mayor's TableWordsworth: 2. Glide GentlyArley: 3. Wapping Old StairsBlake: 4. Holy ThursdayCharles Morris: 5. The ContrastAnon.: 6. RhymeAnon.: Anon. in Love - orchestral version1. Fain would I change that note2. O stay sweet love3. Lady when I behold the roses4. My Love in her attire5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale6. To couple is a customA Song for the Lord