Dark Pastoral: Songs and Poems of the First World War
King’s College, Cambridge
11 July 2009, 8pm
Andrew Kennedy (tenor)
Julius Drake (pinao)
Alex Jennings
W. Denis Browne (1888 – 1915)
To Gratiana Dancing and Singing (Richard Lovelace. Composed: February 1913)
To RUPERT BROOKE BY W. DENIS BROWNE
The Isle of Lost Dreams (Fiona Macleod. Composed: c. 1909. Unpublished)
Diaphenia (Henry Constable. Composed: October 1912)
SAFETY BY RUPERT BROOKE
George Butterworth (1885 – 1916)
(all from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, 1911/1912)
Loveliest of Trees
The Lads in their Hundreds
Is my Team Ploughing?
THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS BY EDMUND BLUNDEN
Bredon Hill (A.E. Housman. Composed 1909)
With Rue my Heart is Laden (A.E. Housman. Composed: 1910)
LIGHTS OUT BY EDWARD THOMAS
Peter Warlock (1894 – 1930)
(all by Hilaire Belloc. Composed 1927)
Ha’nacker Mill
The Night
My Own Country
Ernest Moeran (1894 -1950)
Rain has fallen (James Joyce. Composed 1929)
PERHAPS BY VERA BRITTAIN
Twilight (John Masefield. Composed 1920)
Interval
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)
Orpheus with his Lute (attrib. Fletcher. Composed: 1902)
Linden Lea (W. Barnes. Composed: c. 1901)
ON THE IDLE HILL OF SUMMER BY A.E. HOUSMAN
Frank Bridge (1879 -1941)
All things that we clasp (Heine, trans. Emma Lazarus. Composed 1907)
Journey’s End (Humbert Wolfe. Composed 1925 )
RAIN BY EDWARD THOMAS
Ivor Gurney (1890 – 1937)
Sleep (John Fletcher. Composed: 1913-14)
MAy 1915, JUNE 1915 BY CHARLOTTE MEW
Severn Meadows (Ivor Gurney. Composed Caulaincourt 1917)
In Flanders (F.W. Harvey. Composed Crucifix Corner, Thiepval, 1917)
To HIS LOVE BY IVOR GURNEY
Tarantella (Hilaire Belloc. Composed 1921)
The Ghost (Walter de la Mare. Composed c.1920-22)
TREES BY IVOR GURNEY
Gerald Finzi (1901 – 1956)
A Young Man’s Exhortation (Thomas Hardy. Composed 1926)
THE DARKLING THRUSH BY THOMAS HARDY
The Dance Continued (Thomas Hardy. Composed 1926)
The College gratefully acknowledges the generous support received from members of the King’s College Chapel Foundation, and particularly from Robin Boyle, without which this series of concerts would not have been possible.