Songs by Goossens, Bliss & Howells Consone Quartet Included on this first volume

Included on this first volume are duets in D major K381

Jakob Fichert

these works—many previously overlooked—finally receive the attention they so richly deserve

The celebrated Choir of Sidney Sussex College

Songs by Goossens, Bliss & Howells Consone Quartet Included on this first volumeJames Geer (tenor) Ronald Woodley (piano) In the years immediately leading up to the First World War the Royal College of Music in London welcomed three of the most brilliant young musicians of their generation as students: Eugene Goossens, Arthur Bliss, and Herbert Howells. Close friends as they became, their musical personalities nevertheless evolved over the following years as notably distinct from one another. This disc brings something of their