Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy explained

Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy is a set of songs for voice and piano composed in 1925 by John Ireland (18791962). It consists of settings of three poems by Thomas Hardy (18401928).^[1]

A performance of all three songs takes around 7 minutes. The songs are:^[2]

1. "Summer Schemes" (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses (1922))
2. "Her Song" (from Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses)
3. "Weathers"

Notes and References

1. Web site: List of works – T to Y . The John Ireland Trust . 30 April 2015 . 27 July 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120727010646/http://www.johnirelandtrust.org/ttoy.htm . dead .
2. Web site: Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy: Song Cycle by John (Nicholson) Ireland (18791962) . The LiederNet Archive . 30 April 2015 .