Charles Villiers Stanford

1852–1924 · Late Romantic · Ireland

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.

• Since thou, o fondest and truest — 3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43 · No. 1
• I praise the tender flower — 3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43 · No. 2
• Say, o say! saith the music — 3 Songs of Robert Bridges, Op. 43 · No. 3
• As thro’ the land — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 1
• Sweet and low — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 2
• The splendour falls — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 3
• Tears, idle tears — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 4
• O swallow, swallow — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 5
• Thy voice is heard — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 6
• Home they brought her warrior dead — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 7
• Our enemies have fall’n — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 8
• Ask me no more — A Cycle of Songs, Op. 68 · No. 9
• The Pibroch — Songs of a Roving Celt, Op. 157 · No. 1
• Assynt of the Shadows — Songs of a Roving Celt, Op. 157 · No. 2
• The Sobbing of the Spey — Songs of a Roving Celt, Op. 157 · No. 3
• No More — Songs of a Roving Celt, Op. 157 · No. 4
• The Call — Songs of a Roving Celt, Op. 157 · No. 5
• Sailing at Dawn — Songs of the Fleet (Piano), Op. 117 · No. 1
• The Song of The Sou’wester — Songs of the Fleet (Piano), Op. 117 · No. 2
• Fare Well — Songs of the Fleet (Piano), Op. 117 · No. 5
• String Quartet No. 1, Op. 44 — 3 movements