Original compositions by John Billing. John Billing on lyre and Elsa von Bodecker on recorder. John Billing is a preeminent lyrist and composer of lyre music. Proceeds of this CD goes toward our Financial Aid Fund.

1. The strings awake

2. Sweet air blow soft

3. Delicious solitude

4. Fields breathe sweet

5. A shady grove

6. Sweetbriar and twisted eglantine

7. The sun rising

8. Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride

9. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere

10. Arras

11. Willows whiten

12. Aspens quiver

13. The silent isle

14. A space of flowers

15. Lady in the tower

16. Low sky raining

Printed music of "Gentillesses" available here.