Love Lives beyond the Tomb

As the title suggests, the works on this disc are predominantly reflective in mood although this does not preclude the use of faster-moving music whenever the poetry requires it. Its subject matter celebrates the timelessness of love through the poetry of James Joyce, John Drinkwater, Edward Thomas, John Clare, Robert Nichols and the modern poet Jennifer Andrews; the celebration and commemoration of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, in Sir Andrew Motion’s remarkable narrative poem Remember This and the collective remembrance of those who died in the First World War: the poetry of Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy and the less well-known Francis St. Vincent Morris providing the impetus for one of Ian Venables’ most dramatic and profoundly moving cycles.

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Six Songs, Op. 33
I. The Way Through
 
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Three Songs, Op. 37
III. Aurelia
 
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Eight Songs, Op. 41
VI. Chamber Music III
 
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Three Songs, Op. 37
I. Love Lives Beyond the Tomb
 
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Six Songs, Op. 33
II. It Rains
 
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I Caught the Changes of the Year, Op. 45
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
I. Think of the Failing Body
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
II. In the Swirl of its Pool
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
III. Think of the Flower-Lit Coffin
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
IV. In the Grip of Their Season
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
V. Think of the Standard and its Blaze
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
VI. On the Crest of their Downs
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
VII. Think of the Buried Body Laid
 
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Remember This, Op. 40
VIII. In the Eyes of Our Minds
 
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Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46
I. The Send-Off
 
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Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46
II. Procrastination
 
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Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46
III. Through These Pale Cold Days
 
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Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46
IV. Suicide in the Trenches
 
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Through These Pale Cold Days, Op. 46
V. If You Forget
 
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