George Butterworth’s moving cycle Love Blows as the Wind Blows lends its title to the solo debut album of Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis. He also sings a rarely recorded English song cycle, Farewell Earth’s Bliss, by British composer Geoffrey Bush, and Dover Beach, an early work by Samuel Barber.

This exquisite and refined selection includes four French songs by Canadian composer Réjean Coallier based on poems by Sylvain Garneau. Dupuis also performs the iconic Irish folk song Danny Boy, arranged for voice and string quartet. Dupuis is accompanied by the musicians of the Quatuor Claudel-Canimex, who play Barber’s famous Adagio in its original version for string quartet.