Poems by F.W. Harvey set to music
A number of Harvey’s poems have been set to music – if you have any further information, know of any others or have the music do let us know.
Arthur Baynon (1889- 1954)
- Song of Minsterworth, for Voice & piano – Boosey & Co.(1934)
Herbert Brewer
Song cycle – A Sprig of Shamrock, for Voice & String Quartet – Novello (1925), performed at the Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester 1925
- When the world of the eyes
- A Queer Story
- When I went out a walking
- Don’t say no
Song cycle – For your Delight – a Gloucestershire Song Cycle, for Voice & piano -Augener (1927)
- The Miller and his Cat
- The Happy Heart
- Loves Power
- Lullaby
- Haste Away
Johnny Coppin, Folk music
Launched at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature 1983
- A Song of Gloucestershire
- Piper’s Wood,
- Song of Minsterworth Perry
- Warning
- In Flanders
Brian Blyth Daubney
Three poems by F W Harvey – entered for the English Poetry and Song Society competition, 2007. September earned a joint second place with Celia Harper. All unpublished.
- September
- If we return
- The curse
Paul Nettleton Edmonds (1874-1939)
- Land of Hearts Delight, for four female voices and piano accompaniment – J Curwen and Sons (1919)
Celia Harper
Songs of Gloucestershire- A Song Cycle for baritone or tenor & piano (2008)
- The Oldest Inhabitant
- Lovers Goodbye
- Coal
- At Afternoon Tea (Triolet)
- A river, a pig and brains
- Song of Malvern
- Gloucestershire from Abroad
Note – ‘At Afternoon Tea’ and ‘A river, a pig and brains’ were prize winners in the English Poetry and Song Society Competition 2007.
Chiswick Baroque
Three Songs – First performed by Chiswick Baroque a 5-voice a cappella singing group, Wye Valley Music Society Summer Music (2011)
- The Horses
- Christ and the Fairies
- Song “This harp I found”
Herbert Howells (1892- 1983)
- Goddess of the Night, for Voice & piano – Stainer & Bell (1921)
- Carol – Sing Lullaby, SATB second of Three Carol Anthems (1921)
- A Song of Welcome, “To their Excellencies the Lord & Lady Bledisloe” Unison & piano – Stainer & Bell (1935)
Ivor Gurney (1890 – 1937)
- In Flanders, for Voice & piano (1916) Originally part of cycle ‘A Gloucestershire Lad’
- Dinny Hill/Gloucestershire – from abroad for Voice & piano (1916)
- Walking Song, for Voice & piano – Oxford University Press 1921, 1928, 1979 & 1997
- Rondeau (If we return) for Voice & piano – Holograph (1917) Incomplete. Completed by Richard Carder IGS Journal Vol.5 (1999)
- Praise of Ale, for Voice & piano – Holograph (1919) Composed under psuedonym of John Winterton.
- Riddle cum Ruddle, for Voice & piano – Holograph (1919) [possibly incomplete]
- Consolator Afflictorum for Voice & piano – Holograph (1921) incomplete
- Goddess of the Night, for Voice & piano – Holograph (1921) Published in IGS Journal Vol.4 1998
- Elvers for Voice & piano – Holograph (1921)
‘A Gloucestershire Lad’, Performed in Stroud, March 1919.
- In Flanders
- Piper’s Wood
- The Horses
- The Rest Farm
- Song of Minsterworth Perry
Albert Phipps (1897-1955)
Conductor of Whitecroft Male Voice Choir
- We are the boys of Whitecroft
John Sanders (1933-2003)
- On Painswick Beacon, for Voice & piano (1925)
- A Prayer, for Choir SATB + Organ (1925)
Richard Shepherd
There Was Such Beauty, cantata for soprano and baritone soloists, speaker, reader, chorus and orchestra, Special commission for 450th anniversary of King’s School Re foundation (1991), based on poems by Ivor Gurney and F W Harvey, A Rondel of Gloucestershire
- On Over bridge at Evening
- The Day
- The Sleepers
- After long wandering
- The storm is done
- On Painswick Beacon
- Music Festival
John Hubert Smith
- Song of Malvern
Entered into the English Poetry and Song Society composition competitions 2007.
John Wright
- Hills Far and Near – in Praise of Earth’s Beauty for mixed choir, brass and Organ (2004). Commissioned by Charlton Kings Choral Society, first performed in All Saints Church, Cheltenham 20th November 2004 – Glenfall Music. Revised 2016, to be performed in All Saints Church 21st May 2016.
- England in Memory – for Charlton Kings Choral Society and the Royal Society of St George, Gloucestershire Branch. Performed Gloucester Cathedral, 23rd April 2010
Teresa Davies and John France – Last updated 24 August 2012