Gareth Brynmor John, Nigel Foster

Schumann’s great cycle of love and loss, combined with readings of A E Housman’s later poems, which reveal his struggles with his sexuality that he could never express.

These poems are less well known than his Shropshire lad, but are arguably more intense and personal. Sung by baritone Gareth Brynmor John, winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2010 and Nigel Foster (piano).