Arthur Somervell
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About Arthur Somervell
Sir Arthur Somervell (5 June 1863 – 2 May 1937) was an English composer, and after Hubert Parry one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s-1900s. He was born in Windermere, Westmorland, the son of the founder of K Shoes, and was initially educated at Uppingham School and King's College, Cambridge,[1] where he studied composition under Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. From 1883 to 1885 he studied at the High School for Music
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Somervell: Love in Spring-Time: No. 3, Young Love Lies Sleeping
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To Lucasta, On Going To The Wars
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Into My Heart An Air That Kills
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A Shropshire Lad: II. When I was one-and-twenty
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There Pass the Careless People
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A Kingdom by the Sea
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A Shropshire Lad: I. Loveliest of Trees
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A Shropshire Lad: VII. White in the moon the long road lies
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White in the Moon
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A Shropshire Lad: III. There pass the careless people
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A Shropshire Lad: IX. Into My Heart an Air That Kills
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A Shropshire Lad: VI. On the idle hill of summer
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A Shropshire Lad: V. The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread
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A Shropshire Lad: 1. Loveliest of Trees
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A Shropshire Lad: IV. In summertime on Bredon
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A Shropshire Lad: 2. When I was One-and-Twenty
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The street sounds to the soldiers' tread
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A Shropshire Lad: 3. There Pass the Careless People
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A Shropshire Lad: X. The Lads in Their Hundreds
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A Shropshire Lad: 9. Into My Heart an Air That Kills
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A Shropshire Lad: No. 1, Loveliest of Trees
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A Shropshire Lad: 7. White in the Moon the Long Road Lies
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On the Idle Hill of Summer
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The Lads in Their Hundreds
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A Shropshire Lad: 4. In Summertime on Bredon
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A Shropshire Lad: 10. The Lads in Their Hundreds
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A Shropshire Lad: 5. The Street Sounds to the Soldiers' Tread
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Windermere "O Lord Our God, Arise"
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A Shropshire Lad: 8. Think No More, Lad
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A Shropshire Lad: 6. On the Idle Hill of Summer
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The Mother's Dream
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A Shropshire Lad: No. 3, There Pass the Careless People
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A Shropshire Lad: No. 2, When I was One-and-Twenty
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Fain would I change that note
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In Summer-Time on Bredon
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Loveliest of Trees
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Piano Concerto in A minor, 'Highland' (3rd mvt)
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Violin Concerto in G minor: II. Adagio
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Tolomeo, HWV 25, Act I: Aria: Non Io diro col labbro (Silent worship) (arr. A. Somervell)
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A Shropshire Lad: No. 6, On the Idle Hill of Summer
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The Shropshire Lad: In summer-time on Bredon
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A Shropshire Lad: VIII. Think No More, Lad
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Clarinet Quintet in G Major: III. Lament. Adagio non troppo
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The Shropshire Lad: There pass the careless people
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Shepherd's cradle song
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Clarinet Quintet in G Major: I. Sostenuto – Allegretto (quasi andante) grazioso
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Symphony in D Minor "Thalassa": II. Elegy. Molto adagio
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A Shropshire Lad: No. 5, The Street Sounds to a Soldier's Tread
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Praise to the Holiest in the Height (Chorus angelorum)
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When I Was One-And-Twenty
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