Impressive Music Songs by Havergal Brian - heard by PATRIC STANDFORD '... equal to the intimacy of the skilfully fashioned miniature.'

Brian's considerable output of vocal music can easily be overlooked, but this recital by Brian Rayner Cook and Roger Vignoles with seventeen of his early songs proves that if we do so, we miss some impressive music, for Brian had a sensitive instinct for word setting and for the creation of neat and expressive piano accompaniments. His considerable list of choral music and songs show his attraction to a wide range of poetry. This selection of songs begins with Shakespeare -- an unexpectedly bright setting of Take, O take those lips away from Measure for Measure.is impassioned and succinct...

HAVERGAL BRIAN

SHAKESPEARE

TOCCATA CLASSICS

VOCAL MUSIC

CHAMBER MUSIC