The songs of Ronald Corp
A collection of songs by Ronald Corp OBE, including his settings of Walt Whitman & A.E. Housman.
His spare, bittersweet settings of 12 Housman poems and some interestingly febrile Walt Whitman settings are the highlights… they find terrific champions in Stone and pianist Simon Lepper, who perform them with sensitivity and intelligence. (The Metro)
RECORDING OF THE FORTNIGHT – Ronald Corp is perhaps best known for his choral compositions but here he displays a knack for finding everyone’s favourite verse, whether comedic or rapturous, and setting it for solo voice with a simplicity that nonetheless achieves freshness and impact. (Classical Music Magazine)
There are thirty-nine songs on this disc and it is a tribute to all involved that interest very seldom wanes. More please. (Musicweb International)
- To the city of London
- The distant prospect
- Sonnet composed upon Westminster Bridge
- London
- Glide gently
- London is a fine town
- To the city of London – reprise
- Sleep
- The owl and the pussycat
- The Irish pig
- Weep you no more, sad fountains
- Sensitive, seldom and sad
- The ship of Rio
- Break, break, break
- Give to my eyes, Lord
- Into my heart an air that kills
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- It nods and curtseys and recovers
- You smile upon your friend to-day
- Now hollow fires burn out to black
- In the morning, in the morning
- The sigh that heaves the grasses
- When green buds hang in the elm like dust
- I promise nothing: friends will part
- Stone, steel, dominions pass
- He, standing hushed, a pace or two apart
- Into my heart an air that kills – reprise
- The bath
- Toward the unknown region
- For him I sing
- I am he that aches with love
- Sometimes with one I love
- Look down fair moon
- What am I after all
- As if a phantom caress’d me
- The last invocation
- A clear midnight
- Joy, shipmate, joy!
- Then last of all