Janáček, Tippett, Song Cycles, Richard Lewis

Boyhood’s End: Opening announcement

Boyhood’s End: I. Allegro non troppo: ‘What, then, did I want’

Boyhood’s End: II. Andante: ‘To climb trees’

Boyhood’s End: III. Allegro molto: ‘To ride at noon’

Boyhood’s End: IV. Allegro piacevole: ‘To lie on my back’

Boyhood’s End: Closing announcement

The Heart’s Assurance: Opening announcement

The Heart’s Assurance: I. Song: ‘Oh Journeyman’

The Heart’s Assurance: II. The Heart’s Assurance:‘O never trust the heart’s assurance’

The Heart’s Assurance: III. Compassion: ‘She’s in the hurling night with lucid simple hands’

The Heart’s Assurance: IV. The Dancer: ‘He’s in his grave and on his head’

The Heart’s Assurance: V. Remember Your Lovers:‘Young men walking the open streets’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: Announcement

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.1, ‘One day I met a gypsy girl’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.2 ‘That black-eyed gypsy has haunted me all the day’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.3, ‘Through the twilight’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.4, ‘Already swallows are twittering overhead’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.5, ‘Weary work is ploughing!’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.6, ‘Hey there, my tawny oxen!’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.7, ‘I’ve got a loose axle’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.8, ‘Don’t look, my oxen’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.9, ‘Welcome, my handsome one’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.10, ‘God all-powerful’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.11, ‘From the ripening cornfield’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.12, ‘shady height’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.13, Piano interlude

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.14, ‘Is the darkness lifting’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.15, ‘Now, white-tawny oxen, why do you stare at me?’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.16, ‘What has come over me?’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.17, ‘Who can escape his fate?’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.18, ‘Nothing matters now’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.19, ‘See that thieving magpie’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.20, ‘See my Zevka dance'

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.21, ‘Father, how wrong you were’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: No.22, ‘Then farewell, dearest land’

The Diary of a Man who Vanished: Back-announcement