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CD edition of Excalibur Voices album "What Lovely Things" in collaboration with EM Records, featuring rarely performed music by English composers, including multiple world premiere recordings.
Music includes:
- Gustav Holst part songs
- English Folk-songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams
- the Song of Proserpine by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Magdalen at Michael’s Gate by Sir Henry Walford Davies
- three songs by Herbert Howells, including the world première recording of Creep Afore Ye Gang
- A Rose for Lidice by Alan Rawsthorne
- two songs by John Ireland (world premieres) for upper voices accompanied by piano
- world premiere recordings of Bainton’s In Youth Is Pleasure and Abou Ben Adhem
- world première recordings of Songs of Escape by Robin Milford
Directed by Duncan Aspden
Piano: Anna Markland
Soloists: Clare Kirk, Liz Jestico, Matt Pope, Tom Brockington
Producer: Rupert Marshall-Luck
Engineer: Oscar Torres
Issued by EM Records
CDs will be dispatched by the end of May 2025
