Clare’s Journey
Ieuan Jones (harp) & Glen Capra (piano)
Maida Vale Singers, Christopher Dee
Clare’s Journey
Ieuan Jones (harp) & Glen Capra (piano)
Maida Vale Singers, Christopher Dee
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About
John Clare was a nineteenth century poet whose poetry expressed, in clear and vivid detail, his love for and sensitive awareness of the natural world around him, in which he observed the lives of birds, plants and animals through the seasons.
'Clare's Journey' traces John Clare's story from the point where, for a short while, he became a fashionable poet favoured by London Society. Indeed, the 'peasant poet'. But London society was fickle and soon his poetry was forgotten.
Contents and tracklist
1. The Seasons
2. Warder
3. To Mary (poem by John Clare set to music)
4. Warder
5. Patty (poem by John Clare set to music)
6. Warder, Clare, Drury & Patty
7. This Poetry is of a Nobel Kind
8. Drury & Clare
9. The Toast of Society
10. Patty, Clare, Drury, Warder
11. Once I knew lanes (young Clare)
12. Patty, Warder, Gypsy & Clare
13. Song of the Gypsies
14. Warder & Clare
15. Childhood (poem by John Clare set to music)
16. Warder, Clare, Drovers
17. Drovers Song
18. Warder
19. Childhood (continued)
20. Warder, Traveller & Clare
21. You've had a Journey, Sir (traveller)
22. Warder & Clare
23. The Windowpanes Glow
24. Patty, Warder & Clare
25. Why don't I hear your voice
26. Patty, Man & Clare
27. He doesn't know me
28. They tell me that Mary died
29. Patty
30. Ever Forever
31. Warder
32. The Seasons
33. I am (poem by John Clare set to music)
34. The Seasons (reprise)
