A3 Size Score-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. Despite growing 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 is set to the text of Edward Thomas.

The setting of a text by Geoffrey Chaucer for Soprano and Piano by George Dyson. Taken from The Canterbury Pilgrims - Dyson's full setting of The Canterbury Tales.

This was written in 1979. It's scored for soprano and was commistioned by the University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand.

In Handel’s Messiah this lilting air in 12/8 for Soprano is a breath of lightness and truth following the grandeur of The Lord Gave the Word. For the Soprano or mezzo who is not confident on a repeated high G this transposition to F minor allows the music to be the centre of attention.

Salmer Og Aandelige Sange ias a collection of Sacred Songs And Hymns by early 20th Century Danish composer Carl Nielsen who is one of the most important and free-spirited of the generation of composers who straddle the 19th and 20th centuries. If Nielsen's chamber and orchestral music epitomizes the exploratory growth-orientated side of his nature his songs contain the essence of his search for the ‘simple original’. Arranged for Piano Vocal and Guitar.

In memory of W.B.Yeats I (W.H.Auden)In memory of W.B.Yeats II (W.H.Auden)It's no go (Louis MacNeice)