Roger Quilter was born in Brighton on 1 November 1877, third son of Sir Cuthbert Quilter. He was educated at Eton and then studied for four years in Frankfurt-am-Main under the Russian teacher of composition, Ivan Knorr. Fellow students were Cyril Scott, Norman O'Neill, Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger. All these were composers of some reputation in their lifetimes, but only Quilter and Grainger produced work which is still performed regularly today. Quilter was a writer of songs, and virtually nothing else. There was an opera, Julia, and a couple of ballets, and the once well-known A Children's Overture. On the other hand, he composed more than one hundred songs. At least half of these remain in the repertoire, loved by performers and audiences alike. The songs on this release span more than 50 years and show Quilter in all his moods - light, exuberant, ephemeral, narrative, pensive, but always melodic. Few composers - especially song composers - can claim to have written works that have remained in print since they were first published more than a hundred years ago. Roger Quilter is one such, though the number of his songs still in print is regrettably small.

Tracklist:

Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22~I Will Go With My Father a-Ploughing
Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22~Cherry Valley
Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22~I Wish and I Wish
In the Bud of the Morning-O Op. 25 No. 6
Music and Moonlight
English Love Lyrics, Op. 24~No. 5 The Time of Roses
Songs, Op. 26~No. 1 In the Highlands
Love's Philosophy Op. 3 No. 1
Song at Parting
Songs, Op. 18~No. 3 The Jocund Dance
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Op. 3 No. 2
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
My Lady's Garden
Charlie Is My Darling
Ye Banks and Braes
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
My Lady Greensleeves
Over the Mountains (from Percy's Reliques)
Barbara Allen
Ca' teh Yowes
Jolly Miller
Ash Grove
Cradle in Bethlehem
One Word Is Too Often Profaned
June
I Arise from Dreams of Thee

UPC: 710357598326
Label: Nimbus Records
Release Date: 3.6.20
Format: CD

Quilter / Rothschild / Farmer - Songs of Roger Quilter 3 (CD)