Gustav Holst - Four Part Songs

These four early and unperformed part-songs are among a number of vocal works by her father which Imogen Holst edited shortly before her death in 1984. O Lady leave that silken thread was composed in 1895 (Thomas Hood) ssatbb Soft and gently in 1896 (Heine) ssa The autumn is old in 1899 (Thomas Hood) satb and Winter and the birds the earliest of the four in 1894 (Frit z Hart) satb.