THE COMPLETE C.W. ORR SONGBOOK - VOLUME 1

 

Along the field

When I watch the living meet

The Lent lily

Farewell to barn and stack and tree

Oh fair enough are sky and plain

Hughley steeple

When smoke stood up from Ludlow

Silent noon

Tryste noel

The brewer’s man

The Earl of Bristol’s farewell

Whenas I wake

Slumber song

Fain would I change that note

When the lad for longing sighs

The carpenter’s son

When I was one-and-twenty

Soldier from the wars returning

When summer’s end is nighing

’Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town

Loveliest of trees, the cherry

 

Mark Stone, baritone

Simon Lepper, piano

 

This is the first CD in a 2CD series which is the first ever complete recording of C W Orr’s songs for voice and piano. C W Orr is considered to be one of the greatest English song composers of the twentieth century and this collection includes 14 premiere recordings. This volume includes his largest group of Housman songs. The booklet contains full texts and extensive notes on each song.

 

Stone Records 5060192780123