Recital for Luton Music Festival

<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>“For many years we have been programming the music of Worcestershire-based composer Ian Venables.  We certainly regard him as a friend of Luton Music and have enjoyed many of his exquisite chamber works and song cycles in a whole range of concerts.  This recital will surely be just such another rewarding occasion.  Alongside Ian’s works, the programme also salutes the elegance and sensitivity of Ivor Gurney; this feels particularly apposite as Ian is Chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society and one of the world’s leading experts on this sensitive poet and composer.  Please join us for a beautiful evening of fine English song.” – <strong>Richard Sisson</strong> (Chair of Luton Music)</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><strong>PROGRAMME</strong></p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Ian Venables – <em>My Heart Makes Songs On Lonely Roads</em> (Ivor Gurney)<br />Ivor Gurney – <em>On The Downs</em> (John Masefield)<br />Gerald Finzi – <em>Only The Wanderer</em> (Ivor Gurney)<br />Ivor Gurney – <em>The Cloths of Heaven</em>(W B Yeats)<br />Herbert Howells – <em>The Chosen Tune</em><br />Ian Venables – <em>Soft Rain</em> (Ivor Gurney)<br />Herbert Howells – <em>King David</em> (Walter de la Mare)<br />Ivor Gurney – <em>Thou Didst Delight My Eyes</em> (Robert Bridges)<br />Charles Villiers Stanford  – <em>Tears</em>(Walt Whitman)<br />Ian Venables – <em>The Wind</em> (Ivor Gurney)</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>INTERVAL</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p> <p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>Ivor Gurney – <em>In Flanders</em> (F W Harvey)<br />Gerald Finzi – <em>Channel Firing</em>(Thomas Hardy)<br />Ralph Vaughan Williams – <em>Whither Must I Wander? </em>(R L Stevenson)<br />Ralph Vaughan Williams – <em>Silent Noon</em> (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)<br />Ivor Novello – <em>We’ll Gather Lilacs</em><br />Edward Elgar – <em>The Poet’s Life</em> (Ellen Burroughs)<br />Ivor Gurney – <em>An Epitaph</em> (Walter de la Mare)<br />Herbert Howells – <em>Ooce At Leisure</em> from <em>Sarum Sketches</em> Op 6<br />Herbert Howells – <em>The Restful Branches</em> (W A Byrne)<br />Ian Venables – <em>At Midnight</em> (Harold Munro)<br />Ivor Gurney – <em>By a Bierside</em> (John Masefield)<br />Ian Venables – <em>In Memoriam: Ivor Gurney</em> (Leonard Clark)</p> <p><!-- /wp:paragraph --></p>