Arthur Somervell
Born: 5th June 1863, Windermere, England
Died: 2nd May 1937, London, England
Nationality: English
Sir Arthur Somervell was an English composer and educationalist. After Hubert Parry, he was one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s–1900s. According to Michael Hurd, his most important work is found in the five song cycles, particularly his settings of Tennyson in Maud (1898) and Housman in A Shropshire Lad (1904).
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Roderick Williams on the songs of Arthur Somervell
25th Jun 2020
The English baritone talks to David about his new recording of two song-cycles by this rarely-heard Victorian composer, including a setting of Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad'.
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- A Broken Arc (2)
- A Kingdom by the Sea (5)
- A Shropshire Lad (11)
- Air in C major (3)
- Among the rocks (1)
- Birds in the high Hall - garden (1)
- Clarinet Quintet in G major (3)
- Come into the garden, Maud (1)
- Come to me in my dreams (2)
- Dainty little maiden (1)
- Fain would I change that note (2)
- Go not, happy day (1)
- In Summer-Time on Bredon (1)
- Into My Heart An Air That Kills (No. 9 from A Shropshire Lad) (3)
- James Lee's Wife (1)
- Loveliest of trees (2)
- Maud (6)
- Normandy 'Symphonic Variations' (1)
- O mistress mine (1)
- Orpheus with his lute (1)
- Piano Concerto in A minor 'Highland' (1)
- Praise to the holiest in the height (Chorus angelorum) (2)
- Shepherd's cradle song (6)
- Songs of Innocence (1)
- Sweet Kate (1)
- Symphony in D minor ‘Thalassa’ (1)
- The Bargain (1)
- The lads in their hundreds (1)
- The Mother's Dream (1)
- The Street Sounds To The Soldiers’ Tread (No. 5 from A Shropshire Lad) (3)
- There Pass The Careless People (No. 3 from A Shropshire Lad) (2)
- To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars (2)
- Two Conversations About Bach for two violins and piano (1)
- Violin Concerto in G minor (1)
- When Spring returns (1)
- White in the moon the long road lies (No. 7 from A Shropshire Lad) (4)
- With still increasing blessings (1)
- Young love lies sleeping (1)
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