Goodbye to all that

 Songs and poetry from 1st world war

 
 ‘On the idle hill of summer…’

 Vaughan Williams – Linden Lea (sop)

Gurney - Black Stichel (ten)

W.N. Hodgson – The Call

Somervell – On the idle hill of summer (ten)

Rupert Brooke – Peace

 
 ‘The lads in their hundreds’…

 Butterworth - The lads in their hundreds (ten)

Edward Thomas – No one cares less than I

Butterworth – The true lover’s farewell (ten)

The Dilemma – J.C. Squire

Caplet - Quand reverrai-je, helas (sop)


 ‘In Flanders Fields…’

 Haydn Wood – Roses of Picardy (sop)

John McCrae – In Flanders Fields

Gurney – In Flanders (ten)

Patrick Shaw-Steward – Untitled

Poulenc - Bleuet (sop)

Breakfast – W.W. Gibson
 

 ‘Sweethearts and wives…’

 Browne – Diaphenia (ten)

Helen Dircks - To you in France

Hahn – A Chloris (sop)

To my daughter Betty – T.M. Kettle

Gurney - Thou didst delight my eyes (ten)

Grodek - Trakl

Whiting - Till we meet again (duet)

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Blighty…

 Browne – Gratiana singing and dancing (ten)

John Drinkwater – Nineteen-fifteen

Gurney – Desire in Spring (sop)

Gurney – Severn Meadows (ten)

 
‘Death’s Kingdom…’

Michael Head – A blackbird singing (sop)

Robert Graves - The assault heroic

Butterworth – Think no more lad  (ten)

Sassoon - To any dead officer

Korngold – Sterbelied (sop)

 
‘The old lie…’

John Bird – Diners

Poulenc - Le retour de sergent (ten)

Wilfrid Owen – Dulce et decorum est

Ned Rorem - A dead statesman (ten)

Pound – Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (extract)

Debussy – Noel pour les enfants qui n’ont plus de maisons (sop)

 
Return…

Wilfred Owen - The Send off

Ireland - The soldier’s return (ten)

W. Gibson – Bacchanal

Gurney – Hawk and Buckle (ten)

Bridge – Come to me in my dreams (sop)

 
‘Goodbye to all that...’

Lament – Gibson

Ireland - Spring Sorrow (sop)

 
Epilogue

Last Post – Carol Ann Duffy

Finzi – At a lunar eclipse (ten)

Ivor Novello -We’ll gather lilacs (duet)