Description
Released on a DigiSleeve CD and on all digital platforms: 7 February 2025
Herbert MURRILL (1909–1952)
The Rediscovered Songs
1. In Youth is Pleasure (1942)
2. The Months of the Year (1936?)
4 Songs (to Elizabethan words)
3. Sleep (Hommage à Peter Warlock) (1929)
4. Roister Doister (1929)
5. Phillis: For Geoffrey (1927)
6. The Bachelor (1930)
4 Pastorals (1936)
7. I loved a lass
8. Phillada Flouts Me
9. Love is a Sickness
10. Piggësnye
3 Poèmes (1930)
11. Chanson
12. Chanson Petite
13. Le Bonbon
3 Carols for voice and oboe (1929) *
14. Rosa Mystica
15. Cradle Song
16. The Falcon
17. Sonatina for Piano: II. Arioso (1953)
2 Songs (1938)
18. A Thanksgiving to God for His House
19. To Music, to becalm his fever
Self-Portrait (1929)
20. Of Self: Portrait of the Artist
21. Of Birth: A Song for Lovers
22. Of Death: Suburban Funerals
23. Of Extranea: Motum Perpetuum
Crispin Lewis baritone
Raymond Lewis piano
* Rachel Broadbent oboe
All première recordings
Recorded at Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead, London, UK, 19–20 April 2024
Produced by Emily Baines (Chiaro Audio)
Recorded, edited and mastered by John Croft (Chiaro Audio)
24bit, 96kHz high resolution recording, editing and mastering