Songs from The Laurel Tree

The Laurel Tree was my first album, begun in 2001 but not released, for various reasons, till 2008. It contains nine songs, which are all settings of famous poetry and which represent a really intense musical period in my life. I hope you enjoy what you here.

Songs

1. Kubla Khan

   My setting of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. The Song of Wandering Aengus

   My setting of the poem by William Butler Yeats

3. The Lake Isle of Innisfree

   My setting of the poem by William Butler Yates

4. The Lamb

   My setting of the poem by William Blake

5. La Belle Dame Sans Merci

   My setting of the poem by John Keats

6. The Host of the Air

   My setting of the poem by William Butler Yeats

7. The Splendour Falls

   My setting of the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson

8. Do Not go Gentle into That Good Night

   My setting of the poem by Dylan Thomas

9. Crossing the Bar

   My setting of the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson