Description

Ivor Gurney made twenty settings of the poetry of Edward Thomas.  All are for solo voice and piano, with just one exception: this stirring choral setting of ‘The Trumpet’, composed in around 1921.

Left in short score, the piece was premièred with piano in 2007, and a year later was first performed in this orchestration by Gurney scholar Philip Lancaster.  Since then, the piece has been performed widely, recorded and broadcast.  A CD recording of the work, in this orchestration, has been released on Naxos Records, and is available here.  A vocal score of the work is also published by, and available from, The Maker’s Press.