A special collection of songs for High Voice and Piano by the Liverpudlian composer Ian Venables featuring significant settings of a wide variety of texts. The set is introduced by Graham Lloyd who provides a generous and detailed description of the origins and intentions behind each song. With poems by writers as varied as Tennyson Jennifer Andrews Edward Thomas ad Theodore Roethke the settings are also hugely varied in style and mood moving from meditative and gentle to passionate and life-affirming.A rich and unusual source of repertoire for the accomplished performer.