Windy Nights, from the song trio A Child’s Garland of Songs, published in 1982, displays both Stanford’s gift for melody and his sensitivity to text as well as his ability to compose music that creates a mood. Windy NightsechoesSchubert’s Erlkönig in its evocation of horse’s hooves, wind and menace.Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, music teacher and conductor who was a founder of the Royal Academy of Music, teaching composition tosome ofthe greatest British composers of the twent...

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