For Tenor, String Quartet and Piano. Critical edition by Philip Lancaster.
Ivor Gurney's masterpiece has a complex textual history, which the leading Gurney scholar Philip Lancaster has thoroughly explored to create a definitive text of the work with extensive critical apparatus. The composer's revisions and variants are clearly and comprehensively presented, and the edition is compatible with the composer's arrangement of the song cycle for voice and piano.
Words by A. E. Housman
CONTENTS
Far in a Western Brookland (D flat - G flat)
The Lent Lily (E - A)
Ludlow Fair (E - G)
On the idle hill of summer (F - A)
'Tis time, I think (F - G flat)
When I was one and twenty (E - G)
When smoke stood up from Ludlow (D - G sharp)
Recorded by James Gilchrist on Linn CKD 431 (the premiere recording using the composer's revised and corrected version from Philip Lancaster's critical edition)