Music created, recorded, recovered and celebrated during the 2020 pandemic
PERFORMERS
Frances M Lynch, Alice Privett (Sopranos)
Margaret Cameron, Simone Ibbett-Brown, Jenny Miller (Mezzos)
David Sheppard (Countertenor) Julian Stocker (Tenor) Gwion Thomas (Baritone)
The music is mainly acapella with occasional keyboard played by Frances M Lynch
All of the music was recorded individually in the performer’s homes and assembled at Birnam Studios, London by Herbie Clarke and Frances M Lynch.
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“The Moon of Heaven”
by
Elspeth Manders
“Thinking I Hear Thee Call”
by
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
“The Superposition of State”
by
Frances M Lynch
COMPOSER
Anon c. 1420
Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Maria Barthélemon (b.1749)
Eliza Flower (b.1803)
Nicola Lefanu
Elizabeth Maconchy
Ethel Smyth
Elizabeth Turner (b.1700)
TITLE
“Azalea” (Dark Eyed Soldier)
There is no Rose
The Rustling of Grass
The Lacemaker’s (Weaver’s) Prayer
“Doctor Who” Theme Tune
Echoes
Now Pray We for our Country
Thinking I Hear You Call
Astronomers Three
Sea Lullaby
A Sweet Country Life
May Day Carol: The hedges and fields
Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart
Round
The Story Of I Love You
Bats Moths and Biplanes
Echoes From Essex
Firmament
for solo voice & tenor viol
My Mother
O We’ll Go This Day A Rugglin’
Small Atomes
The Superposition Of State
Harp Song Of The Dane Women
The Moon Of Heaven
March Of The Women
A Man That’s Neither High Nor Low
NOTES
Adapted by F M Lynch
Arranged by F M Lynch
Text by Alfred Noyes
Unheard for 250 years
1st Electronic Realisation
1 of 6 Songs for High Voice
First ever recording
Commissioned
Text adapt. from Eugene Field
Poem by Eugene Field
Traditional (arr.)
Traditional (arr.)
Text – Song of Songs 8:6&7
Text by Cheng Hao
From “Rory’s Rounds”
Female Aeronautics
Sung by Essex Virtual Choir
Text – Margaret Cavendish
Nature’s Pictures 1671
Text by Eliza Westbury 1828
A Song for Gulielma Lister
Text – Margaret Cavendish
Cold Pressed Atoms
from Puck of Pook’s Hill
Text by Jammam Shud
Text by Cicely Hamilton
Text by “A Lady”