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]