Performed live, 2013
Jackie Shave, violin; Patrick Kiernan, violin; Katie Wilkinson, viola; Robert Irvine, cello.

Love & Death

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Dido's Lament (Purcell, arr Lockhart) The Brindisi Quartet

This was written for the award-winning WW1 novel My Dear I Wanted To Tell You, by Louisa Young (2011)
Robert Lockhart, piano; Jackie Shave, violin; Diane Haselton, cornet.

My Dear 

My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (Lockhart)

EE Cummings' poem, set by Robert Lockhart for Louisa Young. 
Susan Bullock, soprano;  Peter Donohoe, piano; Jackie Shave, violin

I Carry Your Heart (Cummings/Lockhart)Susan Bullock; Peter Donohoe; Jackie Shave

Written in memory of Wayland Kennet, and first performed at his memorial service at Christ Church Spitalfields, 2010.
This performance  by the Brindisi Quartet was recorded Iive at the composer's memorial concert, Feb 2013. 
Jacqueline Shave, violin; Patrick Kiernan,violin; Katie Wilkinson, viola; Robert Irvine, cello.

Elegy in a Variety of Keys, for Wayland (Lockhart)

BIRDS OF BRITAIN is LOUISA YOUNG (writer, singer) and ALEX MACKENZIE (arranger, producer, player, singer). Debut album YOU LEFT EARLY, 2018 - Johnny Cash:  ‘Louisa, you gotta be what you are. Whatever you are, go and be it.’ Sir Ray Davies:  ‘That’s a nice song. You sound a bit like Nico.’  BIRDS of BRITAIN is Louisa Young (songs) and Alex Mackenzie (arr, prod, guitars, bass, drums, electronica, everything else). Feat. Jackie Shave, violin; Fifi Homan, cello; Terry Edwards, trumpet; Nat Philipps, sax; Michael Tomlinson, guitar.  We also have up tracks by Robert Lockhart, about whom the Birds of Britain songs were written.

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