‘When Laura Smiles’ published

When Laura Smiles, for mezzo-soprano and piano, was written in 2009, but has only just been published on my website, the delay being entirely due to my own sloth (I uploaded a promotional recording, featuring Katy Cooper and the pianist Marcus Andrews, earlier this year). The text of When Laura Smiles is taken from a song that appeared in Thomas Campion and Philip Rosseter’s Book of Ayres, which was published in London in 1601. The words used to be attributed to Campion, but it is now thought that Rosseter is the author.