Soprano Songs-The New Imperial Edition. Contents: At last (So willst du des Armen) · Care selve (Come beloved) · The Chestnut (Der Nussbaum) · Endless pleasure endless love · A Farewell (Ich schwebe) · Gentle Shepherd (Se tu m'ami) · Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel (Gretchen am Spinnrade) · He is noble he is patient (Er der Herrlichste von allen) · How calm is my spirit (Ridente la calma) · How fair this spot! (Tout est si beau!) · I have twelve oxen · Let me wander not unseen · Lone and joyless (Infelice) · The Loreley (Die Lorelei) · Lullaby (Wiegenlied) · A Lullaby · The Novice (Die junge Nonne) · O bid your faithful Ariel fly · Omnipotence (Die Allmacht) · Should he upbraid · The Singer· Solveig's Song · So sweet is thy discourse · Spring · Suleika's Song (Lied der Suleika) · The Vain Suit (Vergebliches Ständchen) · Where the bee sucks (Arne) · Where the bee sucks (Sullivan) · Why do I love? · Without thee! (Ce que je suis sans toi).

Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth on 3rd March 1878 and spent most of his childhood in London. His holidays however were spent with relatives in Swindon and it was there that he developed his abiding love of all things rural.He was educated at St Paul's Hammersmith and was encouraged in his creative writing by James Ashcroft Noble whose daughter he secretly married after her father's death and to the great disapproval of her family. Despitegrowing anxiety over poverty ill health and literary discouragement which exacerbated a natural tendency to depression Thomas worked unstintingly as a reviewer and wrote and published over 30 books between 1897 and 1917.'Adlestrop' was written with four other poems between 7th and 9th June 1915. He enlisted in 1915 at the age of 37 and was called to the Front in 1917. He arrived at Arras on 9th February 1917 and was killed on the 9th April Easter Monday by a shell blast in the opening minutes of the offensive.This work for Soprano and Piano was premiered by Jane Manning and Dominic Saunders at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1989. Text by Edward Thomas. A3 ScoreAvailable: SOS03574