Twelve songs for medium/high voice and Piano accompaniment by Arnold Bax. The songs in this wonderful collection were written between 1916 and 1926 and include settings of poetry and texts by some of Britian’s most important and influential writers including: Thomas Hardy A.E. Housman and Robert Herrick. These pieces demonstrate Bax’s ability to perfectly catch the mood of the texts and he compound the emotion with his music.

In 1977 The Association of English Singers and Speakers published a four-volume work A Heritage of Twentieth Century British Song which was a collection of songs published by Boosey & Hawkes and which were in the opinion of the editors worthy of the attention that such a publication would bring. Sixteen years later with the benefit of further perspective the Association has published this supplemental volume differing from its distinguished predecessor in that it includes works both unpublished and published by a variety of companies. The composers range from the very most familiar and celebrated Ralph Vaughan Williams Arnold Bax Elizabeth Poston to thelesser-known like Rebecca Clarke and Alastair MacGeorge. The book includes biographical information on the composers and notes about each song for performance purposes. The technical requirements range from quite straightforward to most demanding.