Head: Songs – review

Tynan/Wyn-Rogers/Williams/Glynn(Hyperion)The composer, pianist and teacher Michael Head (1900-1976) wrote over 100 songs, many of which he used to sing in recital himself, to his own accompaniments. There are 27 of them in this collection, including the two cycles that bracket his output: the settings of Francis Ledwidge from 1918, Over the Rim of the Moon, and Three Songs of Venice, to texts by Nancy Bush that were composed in 1975 but only performed after the composer's death. Head's idiom see...

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