This is a list of books, sheet music and recordings currently in print. You can click on the title of the books to purchase them through Amazon.co.uk.
Biography
- Eleanor Rawling, Ivor Gurney’s Gloucestershire: Exploring Poetry and Place
. History Press, 2011.
- Pamela Blevins, Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott: Song of Pain and Beauty
. Boydell Press, 2008.
- Michael Hurd, The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney
. Faber & Faber, 2008. (A reprint of the first biography of Gurney, first published by Oxford University Press in 1978).
Gurney’s Poetry
- Severn & Somme and War’s Embers
, ed. R.K.R. Thornton. Carcanet Press, 1997.
- 80 Poems or So
, ed. George Walter and R.K.R. Thornton. Carcanet Press, 1997.
- Rewards of Wonder: Poems of London, Cotswold and France
, ed. George Walter. Carcanet Press, 2000.
- Best Poems and The Book of Five Makings
, ed. R.K.R. Thornton. Carcanet Press, 1995.
- Collected Poems
, ed. P.J. Kavanagh. Fyfield Books (Carcanet Press), 2004.
Gurney’s Letters
- Anthony Boden (ed.), Stars in a Dark Night: The Letters from Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family
. The History Press, 2004 (2nd edition).
Critical Studies
- Eleanor Rawling, Ivor Gurney’s Gloucestershire: Exploring Poetry and Place
. History Press, 2011.
- Trevor Hold, Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-Composers
. Boydell Press, 2005. (includes a chapter on Gurney’s songs)
- John Lucas, Ivor Gurney (Writers & Their Work)
. Northcote House, 2001.
Recordings: Songs
- Gurney: Songs
– Susan Bickley (mezzo); Iain Burnside (piano) [Naxos, 2010]
- Severn & Somme
– Roderick Williams (baritone); Susie Allen (piano) [Somm Records, 2006]
- Severn Meadows: Songs by Ivor Gurney
– Paul Agnew (tenor); Julius Drake (piano) [Hyperion, 2001]
- Ludlow and Teme (with Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge and Venables)
– Andrew Kennedy (tenor); Dante Quartet; Simon Crawford-Philips [Signum Records, 2008]
- Ludlow and Teme (with Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge, Warlock & Bliss
– James Gilchrist (tenor); Fitzwilliam Quartet; Anna Tilbrook (piano) [Linn Records, 2007]
- Gurney & Delius – Songs
– Ian Partridge (tenor); Jennifer Partridge (piano) [Etcetera, 2006]
- Gurney; Finzi; Ireland – Songs
– Nathan Vale (tenor); Paul Plummer (piano) [Somm Records, 2007]
- Western Playland & Ludlow & Teme (with Vaughan Williams)
Stephen Varcoe (bar.); Adrian Thompson (tenor); Delme Quartet; Iain Burnside (piano) [Hyperion Helios, 2004]
- War’s Embers
– Michael George (bass); Stephen Varcoe (bar.); Martyn Hill (ten.); Clifford Benson (piano) [Hyperion Helios, 2006 – a shortened release of the original double disc set]
- The Dark Pastoral: Music and Poetry from World War One
– Andrew Kennedy (tenor); Julius Drake (piano); Simon Russell Beale (reader) [Altara, 2008]
Recordings: Orchestral songs
- Elgar – Pageant of Empire, Sea Pictures / Ivor Gurney – Lights Out (orch. Jeremy Dibble) / Michael Hurd – Shore Leave
– Roderick Williams (baritone) [Dutton Epoch, 2010]
- English Orchestral Songs
– Christopher Maltman (bar.) – includes Howells’s orchestrations of By a Bierside & In Flanders and Finzi’s scoring for strings of four of the Five Elizabethan Songs [Hyperion, 2000]
Recordings: Instrumental & Orchestral Works
- Elgar – The Spirit of England & Gurney – War Elegy for orchestra
– BBCSO; David Lloyd Jones (cond.) [Dutton Epoch, 2006]
- Gurney/Ferguson: Piano Music
– Mark Bebbington (piano) [Somm Records, 2004]
- Elgar; Gurney; Howells: English Piano Music
– Alan Gravill (piano) [Da Capo, 2010] - Trails of Creativity 1918 – 1938: Music From Between the Wars – including Gurney ‘The Apple Orchard’ & ‘Scherzo’
– David Fruwirth (violin); Henri Sigfridsson (piano) [Avie, 2003]