- What Lovely Things launch May 2025
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Download edition pre-order
Download 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.
Album 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
Audio will be provided in the form of a download link in FLAC format, suitable for playback on all modern devices capable of music playback, including Apple devices, Android phones, Windows computers, etc.
Links will be emailed by the end of May 2025
Audio is licensed for one household's use only