Love Me Sweet (Novello New Choral Series)

Love Me Sweet was composed for the occasion of the composer's wedding in July 2010. The text consists of four verses taken from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ironic poem A Man's Requirements which ends with the couplet, 'I willlove thee - half a year - As a man is able.' This setting responds to the purer sentiments of the earlier verses, employing a lilting meter, a harmonic idiom and a piquant sprinkling of dissonance.