Dear delight (Head)
from Head: Songs (CDA67899)
2 minutes 54 seconds 1 track
‘Singers and pianist perform with conviction and style’ (Gramophone)
‘Head created the most inventive and sympathetic writing for voice and piano, in asymmetrical, free-flowing, artful settings of poets such as Walter De La Mare, John Masefield and Christina Rossetti ...
‘As these meticulous performances demonstrate, Head was acutely sensitive to words. There are settings of Masefield and Yeats, Hardy, Joyce and Christina Rossetti here, and in every song each phrase i ...