A’e gowden lyric: songs by Ronald Stevenson Irene Drummond Handel approaches the setting of

Handel approaches the setting of this second text by John Dryden with the same extraordinary vividness of detail and metrical virtuosity as Alexander’s Feast

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but here they've produced a top-notch recording of music that's firmly rooted in theEnglish choral tradition

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A’e gowden lyric: songs by Ronald Stevenson Irene Drummond Handel approaches the setting ofSUMMARY REVIEWS INFO Since first performing Ronald Stevensons music as a treble in 1985, when she gave the first broadcast performance of A Childs Garden of Verses, Susan Hamilton has brought Stevensons songs to audiences throughout Britain and abroad. The present recording features her unique, clarion voice in the soprano version of that work, alongside settings of Scots poems by Hugh MacDiarmid and William Soutar and a short translated verse by the