Songs of Love and War
Songs of Love and War drew together several themes and projects, old and new. Released in 2014, the 100th anniversary of the start of "The Great War", this is a programme sung from the heart, inspired by the dual themes of love and of war.[Champs Hill Records: CHRCD074]
Richard Bryan, Steven Brooks, Mark Fleming, Michael Steffan
with Malcolm Martineau [piano]
PRIEZ POUR PAIX Francis Poulenc / Charles d'Orléans
AS TORRENTS IN SUMMER Edward Elgar / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PAVANE Thoinot Arbeau
PRELUDE IN E MINOR / INSENSATEZ Fryderyk Chopin / Antônio Carlos Jobim & Vinicius de Moraes / Norman Gimbel
GO, LOVELY ROSE Roger Quilter / Edmund Waller
BLEUET Francis Poulenc / Guillaume Apollinaire
THERE IS A PARADISE ON EARTH Robert Lucas Pearsall / Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty
SILENT NOON Ralph Vaughan Williams / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
SWEET AND LOW Joseph Barnby / Alfred, Lord Tennyson
SHE’S OUT OF MY LIFE Tom Bahler
THE WAR OF '14-'18 Georges Brassens
IN THE SUMMER OF HIS YEARS David Lee / Herbert Kretzmer
WHEN SHE LOVED ME Randy Newman
O WALY, WALY Traditional
ONLY YOU Vince Clark
SHE NEVER TOLD HER LOVE Joseph Haydn / William Shakespeare
THE LAST INVOCATION Frank Bridge / Walt Whitman
BLUMENLIED Robert Lucas Pearsall / Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty