Severn Meadows

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Catalogue No: CDA67243
Label: Hyperion
Length: 70 minutes

Gurney: Epitaph in Old Mode

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: You are my sky

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: All night under the moon

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: The Folly of Being Comforted

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: By a bierside

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Severn Meadows

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: In Flanders

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Even such is time

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Ha'nacker Mill

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Bread and Cherries

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Most Holy Night

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Desire in Spring

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Nine of the clock

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: A cradle song

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

I. Orpheus

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II. Tears

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III. Under the greenwood tree

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IV. Sleep

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V. Spring

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Gurney: An Epitaph

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: The Fields are Full

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: Down by the Salley Gardens

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: The cloths of heaven

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: The singer

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

Gurney: I will go with my father a-ploughing

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Paul Agnew (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)

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The life of Ivor Gurney was one of the most tragic in English musical history. A chorister in Gloucester Cathedral Choir at the turn of the century (along with Herbert Howells and Ivor Novello) he was later conscripted into The Great War where he was gassed in the trenches. This experience unhinged his mind and the last few years of his life were spent in an asylum. Gurney was a prolific poet and the composer of some of the most beautiful songs in the English language, many of which are included on this disc. Some are comparatively well-known (I will go with my father a-ploughing; In Flanders; Down by the Salley Gardens and the five 'Elizas'); many are not. The moving 'Severn Meadows', which gives the disc its title, sets his own nostalgic poem written in the trenches. This is tenor Paul Agnew's first solo CD and Julius Drake's debut on Hyperion.

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