George Butterworth: Six Songs From a Shropshire Lad
Loveliest Of Trees
When I Was One And Twenty
Look Not In My Eyes
Think No More, lad
The Lads In Their Hundreds
Is My Team Ploughing?

Michael Head:
Sweet Chance, That Led My Steps Abroad
A Vagabond Song
Tewkesbury Road
Limehouse Reach

John Ireland:
When Lights Go Rolling Round The Sky
Great Things

Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Linden Lea

Song of Travel
The Vagabond
Let Beauty Awake
The Roadside Fire
Youth And Love
In Dreams
The Infinite Shining Heavens
Whither Must I Wander
Bright Is The Ring Of Words
I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope


Shropshire baritone Peter Edge is delighted to return to Chester Music Society, presenting a recital of Songs of the Countryside. Graduating from the Royal College of Music, London, with Distinction, Peter went on to become a principal artist enjoying seasons with English Touring Opera, Grange Festival Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera North. In Autumn 2024, Peter joins the Royal Opera House, performing roles in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place, marking both Peter’s and the opera’s debut at Covent Garden.

 John Gough is a Tutor in Piano at Undergraduate and Post Graduate level at the Royal Northern College of Music. He studied at RNCM on Associated Board Scholarship and was first pianist to graduate with a First Class Honours Degree and the Professional Perfomance Diploma with Distinction in the same year. He won the John Ireland Centenary Piano Competition and has since broadcast many of his works on BBC Radio. He has considerable experience in solo and chamber music playing and more recently, song recitals.