SIR EDWARD ELGAR
The Torch op.60 no.1 (1909 orch. 1912) words: Elgar
The Wind at Dawn (1888 orch. 1912) words: Caroline Alice Roberts
Pleading op.48 no.1 (1908) words: Arthur Leslie Salmon
Like to the Damask Rose (1892) words: Simon Wastell; Orch. G Williams
The Shepherd's Song op.16 no.1 (1892) words: Barry Pain; Orch. Lionel Salter
Song Cycle op.59 (1910) words: Sir Gilbert Parker
O Soft Was the Song
Was it Some Golden Star?
Twilight
There are Seven that Pull the Thread from Grania and Diarmid' op.42 (1901) words: George Moore

The Sun Goeth Down from The Kingdom' op.51 (1906)
Cynthia Fleming (solo violin)

ERIC GRITTON
O Stay, Madonna (1910) words: Lord Macauley; Orch. in 2008 by Robin Gritton

SIR HUBERT PARRY
Guenever's Soliloquy from Guenever' Act I, Scene 4 (1886 orch. 1995) Orchestrated by Jeremy Dibble

JOHN SANDERS
Evening on Severn no.4 from Gloucestershire Visions' (1988 orch. 1994) words: Leonard Clark

JOHN IRELAND
Five Songs for Soprano & Orchestra; Orchestrated in 2008 by Graham Parlett
Love and Friendship (1926) words: Emily Bront
My True Love Hath My Heart (1920) words: Sir Philip Sydney
The Trellis (1920) words: Aldous Huxley
Adoration (1918) words: Arthur Symons
I Have Twelve Oxen (1918) Anon
Four Songs for Soprano & Strings Orchestrated in 2008 by Graham Parlett
The Salley Gardens (c. 1931) words: William Butler Yeats
The Heart's Desire (1917) words: Alfred Edward Housman
Baby (1918) words: Christina Rossetti
Her Song (1925) words: Thomas Hardy

Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Cynthia Fleming (leader)
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

World premiere recording
World premiere recording (in this version)

Recorded:
The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 27-29 January 2009

CDLX 7228

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“Susan Gritton brings resplendent tone and intelligent observation to the task in hand, and she receives bright-eyed, sensitive support from the BBC Concert Orchestra. Everything has been most faithfully captured by the sound crew.” Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone, October 2009

“Well worth having.” George Hall, BBC Music Magazine, October 2009