Philip Lancaster, British Music Researcher; solo baritone

Philip’s forthcoming appearances as singer and lecturer, 2010

  • Saturday 27 February: Major-General Stanley in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, Lichfield Cathedral

  • Monday 8 March: Talk to Leicester Recorded Music Society, Ivor Gurney: Songs of Earth and Beauty

  • Monday 29 March: soloist in Stainer’s The Crucifixion, Lichfield Catherdral

  • Saturday 15 May, 3.15pm: A Recital of English Song, St. Andrew’s Church, Churchdown
    Part of the Ivor Gurney Society Spring Weekend. With Andrew Plant, piano.

  • Monday 19 July, 9pm: ‘At the Drop of an H’ – an evening of Flanders and Swann.
    with Benjamin Lamb, piano. Part of The English Choral Experience, Abbey Dore.

  • Friday 23 July, 9pm: A Recital of English Song
    with Claire Seaton, Jeremy Budd and Mark Opstad. Part of The English Choral Experience, Abbey Dore.

  • Saturday 24 July, 7.30pm: soloist in George Dyson The Canterbury Pilgrims
    Part of The English Choral Experience, Abbey Dore.

Recent and forthcoming publications and recordings

  • Paul Spicer Advent Oratorio: a recording of the first performance of Paul’s new oratorio, in which I appeared as
    The Voice of God (available from Lichfield Cathedral Bookshop, December 2009).

  • The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, Number 15, January 2010 – include an article by Philip on Gurney and Cornwall, an introduction and notes to the previously unpublished Gurney essay, On Earth, and seven previously unpublished letters (edited).

  • Ludlow and Teme: a critical edition of this song cycle by Ivor Gurney, Stainer and Bell, Easter 2010

  • ‘”They tolled the one bell only”: The remarkable influence of A.E. Housman’ – essay in Rushton (ed.) Let Beauty Awake, to be published by the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Societies, c.March 2010.

  • The Complete Poems of Ivor Gurney, ed. with Prof Tim Kendall. In preparation for Oxford University Press.

Links and Contact

  • Please visit my research blog, ivorgurney.blogspot.com for occasional thoughts on my work on the poet-composer Ivor Gurney.

  • For further information about me and my work, please get in touch at philip[at]philiplancaster[dot]com [replacing the necessary parts in square brackets]