‘Little Wanderer’, from William Blake’s dream world, seemed the perfect title for an album in which we are surrounded by myriad landscapes in songs by Benjamin Britten, Imogen Holst and Daniel Kidane. Since meeting on our first day at the Royal College of Music, we have long enjoyed programming Britten’s masterful folk song reimaginings, and we adore the texts and music in his powerful Hardy cycle, Winter Words. It has been a joy to discover songs by Imogen Holst, Britten’s close friend and assistant, and we are proud to be able to make the first recording of Dan’s Songs of Illumination, commissioned for us by Leeds Lieder in 2018. For over a decade, song in English has played a major part in our musical lives and performing relationship, and we are delighted to present this programme together.
Little Wanderer
£12.00
Nick Pritchard – Tenor
Ian Tindale – Piano
Release date: 24th October 2025
Catalogue Number: SIGCD952
Barcode: 635212095225
Winter Words, Op. 52 – Benjamin Britten
[1] No. 1, At Day-Close in November
[2] No. 2, Midnight on the Great Western “The Journeying Boy”
[3] No. 3, Wagtail and Baby “A Satire”
[4] No. 4, The Little Old Table
[5] No. 5, The Choirmaster’s Burial “The Tenor Man’s Story”
[6] No. 6, Proud Songsters “Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales”
[7] No. 7, At the Railway Station, Upway “The Convict and Boy with the Violin”
[8] No. 8, Before Life and After
Four Songs – Imogen Holst
[9] No. 1, Brittle Beauty
[10] No. 2, Why fearest thou thy outward foe?
[11] No. 3, Shall I thus ever long?
[12] No. 4, As lawrell leaves
[13] Weathers – Imogen Holst
[14] Little think’st thou – Imogen Holst
Songs of Illumination – Daniel Kidane
[15] No. 1, A Dream
[16] No. 2, The Land of Dreams
[17] No. 3, The Little Black Boy
[18] Sally in our Alley – Traditional
[19] The Ploughboy – Traditional
[20] The Last Rose of Summer – Traditional
[21] How Sweet the Answer – Traditional
[22] Ca’ the Yowes – Traditional
[23] Oliver Cromwell – Traditional