Released in celebration of the choir’s 20th anniversary, The Present Time features modern settings of texts by William Shakespeare, including music by Ralph Vaughan Williams and William Mathias, George Shearing’s Songs and Sonnets, as well as the premiere recordings of Derek Holman’s The Present Time and Andrew Ager’s Sonnet 105. With pianist Robert Kortgaard and bassist Neil Swainson.

WILLIAM MATHIAS

1-8. Shakespeare Songs

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

9-11. Three Shakespeare Songs

DEREK HOLMAN

12-16. The Present Time

ANDREW AGER

17. Let not my love be called idolatry

GEORGE SHEARING

18. Live with me and be my love

19. When daffodils begin to peer

20. It was a lover and his lass

21. Spring

22. Who is Silvia

23. Fie on singul fantasy

24. Hey, ho, the wind and the rain