Settings for Baritone and Piano by John Whittaker

'When I Set Out From Lyonesse' and 'Weathers'

These two songs are from a group of 5 Hardy settings for Baritone and Piano. They are sung by a baritone, Mike Sanderson. I wrote to them soon after my Hardy opera - based on 'The Three Wayfarers'. They were written at the suggestion of Stephen Connock,  who was at the time the chairman of the Vaughan Williams Society and had been impressed by my little opera. He had in mind a project involving recording a collection of settings of Hardy's poetry for voice and piano and persuaded me to try my hand at making some new settings for the recording. The project never actually came to fruition, but the songs I wrote remain. If anyone wishes to hear other songs or obtain the music, please do not hesitate to contact me. 

The songs can be heard here:

When-i-Set-Out-from-Lyonesse.mp3 

Weathers.mp3

© John Whittaker 2020

John can be contacted on MJWhittaker@Googlemail.com

• Associated pages
• 'Where the Picnic Was' with a Musical Accompaniment by Gary Cunliffe
• The Three Wayfarers (Opera)
• The Oxen - A Musical Score
• Settings for Baritone and Piano by John Whittaker
• Hardy Perennials by Brenda Sharp
• Neutral Tones: Song Settings of the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
• Penpethy Souls
• A History of English Poesy
• The Coppice Gate
• The Gabriel Oak Tree
• Henchard's Last Will and Testament
• The Heaths of Hardy
• Best and Worst Poems of Thomas Hardy
• Tess (No Angel Wings)
• The Darkling Heart
• Great Things
• The Hand of Ethelberta - A New Play
• The Lepidopterist's Tragedy
• The Destruction of My England
• Thomas Hardy Poems to Music

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