This is the debut solo recording by the internationally renowned bass David Soar, featuring a selection of rarely-heard songs by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, Purcell and Frederick Keel together with arias by Mozart and Schubert.

David Soar is a former Principal Artist at Welsh National Opera and in 2011, made his Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut alongside Angela Gheorghiu in Adriana Lecouvreur and his Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut in Don Giovanni. In the 2012-13 season, Soar will make his Metropolitan Opera debut.

David Soar is joined by the award-winning accompanist, James Southall.