This volume contains newly edited versions of all Walton's songs for voice and piano, together with Anon in Love for voice and guitar and songs from radio plays. It also includes the first publication of the scores of the orchestral versions of Anon in Love and A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table. Walton wrote songs throughout his life, the first, 'Tell me where is Fancy bred?', written when he was a chorister at Christ Church, Oxford, the last, A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table, a song-cycle for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf written in the early 1960s. They all reveal his ear for word-setting, an imaginative response to the text, and an ability to conjure striking musical images from his chosen material.
Forces or Category: Voice & piano/guitar
Difficulty: Moderately difficult to Difficult
Shakespeare: Tell me where is Fancy bred?
Shakespeare: Tell me where is Fancy bred? - arr. piano
Four Swinburne Songs
1. Child's Song
2. Song
3. A Lyke-wake Song
4. The Winds
William Drummond: Tritons
Three Songs to poems by Edith Sitwell
1. Daphne
2. Through Gilded Trellises
3. Old Sir Faulk
Shakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree - low voice
Shakespeare: Under the Greenwood Tree - medium voice
Louis MacNeice: Beatriz's Song
Louis MacNeice: Beatriz's Song - arr. piano
Anon.: Anon. in Love
1. Fain would I change that note
2. O stay, sweet love
3. Lady, when I behold the roses
4. My Love in her attire
5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale
6. To couple is a custom
A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table
Thomas Jordan: 1. The Lord Mayor's Table
Wordsworth: 2. Glide Gently
Arley: 3. Wapping Old Stairs
Blake: 4. Holy Thursday
Charles Morris: 5. The Contrast
Anon.: 6. Rhyme
Anon.: Anon. in Love - orchestral version
1. Fain would I change that note
2. O stay, sweet love
3. Lady, when I behold the roses
4. My Love in her attire
5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale
6. To couple is a custom
A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table - orchestral version
Thomas Jordan: 1. The Lord Mayor's Table
Wordsworth: 2. Glide Gently
Arley: 3. Wapping Old Stairs
Blake: 4. Holy Thursday
Charles Morris: 5. The Contrast
Anon.: 6. Rhyme