Though issued in 1926 in the Carnegie Edition, in the same year as the full score of The Western Playland (and of Sorrow) (Ref: 35601), Ivor Gurney’s transcription of the work for baritone and piano diverged significantly from its source, presaging the composer’s problematical afterthoughts and revisions, chiefly to the accompaniment, only recently resolved in Philip Lancaster’s performing edition Ref: Y352. Michael Pilkington’s 1982 edition revisited Gurney’s transcription, adding Textu...

• The Aspens (C – E)
• The Far Country (C sharp – E)
• Golden Friends (E flat – E flat)
• Is my team ploughing? (A – E flat)
• Loveliest of trees (D flat – F)
• March (C – F)
• Reveille (E – F)
• Twice a week (E – F)