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No 1: The Triumph of Love LIII
But leave it now, leave it; as you left
author of text from The Triumph of Love, 1998
No 2: The Syllables of Summer Birds
I lie as if five fathom drowned
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No 3: From far, from eve and morning
author of text No 32 of A Shropshire Lad, 1896
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Howard Skempton has written: ‘The three songs are settings of poems by Geoffrey Hill, Molly Holden and A E Housman. The aim is always clarity and directness and, even where the music is suitably chromatic (The Triumph of Love), the harp-writing avoids pedal changes. The Syllables of Summer Birds by Molly Holden (1927–1981), whose life was coloured and cut short by multiple sclerosis, is poignantly lyrical, while the Housman is arguably an all-too-familiar lyric, but still refreshing in this new context.’
from notes by Alison Nicholls © 2008
