Brian: Complete Choral Songs, Vol. 2
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
Brian: Complete Choral Songs, Vol. 2
Gavin Roberts, Finchley Children's Music Group, John Evanson, Peter Broadbent, Grace Rossiter, Joyful Company of Singers
[ Toccata / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 17 July 2026
The reputation of Havergal Brian (1876-1972) as a late-blooming symphonist obscures the fact that he was an early-blooming composer of choral music for the huge market of amateur choirs thriving in Edwardian England. His choral songs range from simple unison settings for children's or women's voices to harmonically complex essays intended to tax the ability of groups taking part in the choral competitions once popular in regional Britain. This second selection includes four canons that Brian wrote in the early 1920s as contrapuntal studies for his mighty Gothic Symphony.
Tracks:
A Child's Prayer
Absence
Daybreak
Fairies' Song
He was a rat
If I had but two little wings
Infant Joy
Introit
It was a lover and his lass
Laughing Song
Little White Lily
O Happiness, celestial fair
Pack clouds away
Pastoral: The Shepherd
Rondel: In a Fairy Boat
Shall I then be spared?
Spring, the sweet spring
Stars of the Summer Night
Sweet Solitude
Tell me, thou soul of her I love
Tell me, where is Fancy bred
The Dream
The Echoing Green
The Fairy Palace
The Lamb
The Lost Doll
The Moon
The Mountain and the Squirrel
The Phantom Wooer
The River
Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame
What does little birdie say?
