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Roger Quilter was born in Brighton on 1 November 1877, third son of Sir Cuthbert Quilter. He was educated at Eton and then studied for four years in Frankfurt-am-Main under the Russian teacher of composition, Ivan Knorr. Fellow students were Cyril Scott, Norman O'Neill, Balfour Gardiner and Percy Grainger. All these were composers of some reputation in their lifetimes, but only Quilter and Grainger produced work which is still performed regularly today. Quilter was a writer of songs, and virtually nothing else. There was an opera, Julia, and a couple of ballets, and the once well-known A Children's Overture. On the other hand, he composed more than one hundred songs. At least half of these remain in the repertoire, loved by performers and audiences alike. The songs on this span more than 50 years and show Quilter in all his moods - light, exuberant, ephemeral, narrative, pensive, but always melodic. Few composers - especially song composers - can claim to have written works that have remained in print since they were first published more than a hundred years ago. Roger Quilter is one such, though the number of his songs still in print is regrettably small. Album Tracks 1. Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22~I Will Go With My Father a-Ploughing 2. Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22~Cherry Valley 3. Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22~I Wish and I Wish 4. In the Bud of the Morning-O Op. 25 No. 6 5. Music and Moonlight 6. English Love Lyrics, Op. 24~No. 5 The Time of Roses 7. Songs, Op. 26~No. 1 In the Highlands 8. Love's Philosophy Op. 3 No. 1 9. Song at Parting 10. Songs, Op. 18~No. 3 The Jocund Dance 11. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal Op. 3 No. 2 12. Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 13. My Lady's Garden 14. Charlie Is My Darling 15. Ye Banks and Braes 16. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms 17. My Lady Greensleeves 18. Over the Mountains (
