Settings by Lori Lange
1. Homecoming (The Corsair 3:18) Play Sample (0.8 mb)
2. Contemplation (Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III: 89) Play Sample (0.9 mb)
3. Ephemerality (“O Snatch’d Away in Beauty’s Bloom”) Play Sample (1.3 mb)For ordering information, contact dlange@mac.com
Settings by John Webster
"Courageous Heart: Seven Byronic Songs" – an eighteen-minute digital EP by John Webster with Brindaband. This is an updated and re-ordered version of songs on the CD "Lord Byron and the Greek War" that John released in 2003. done in an “indie-folk” style, with most of the songs drawing on Byron lyrics. The mini song collection is themed around Byron’s intervention in the Greek war of Independence in 1823-24.
Details at www.pathfinderaudio.co.uk
For ordering information, contact : webstjohn@gmail.com
This not-for-profit site is intended to make vocal music and lyrics of the of the early 19th century in the British Isles, Europe, Canada, the United States, and Australia more accessible. It includes contemporary music of the period and later settings (e.g., Brian Holmes's complete score for Death's Jest Book and Lori Lange's settings of Byron lyrics). For further information, contact Paul.Douglass@sjsu.edu