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Fand is delighted to introduce a new name to the catalogue in the form of John Goss, who was best known as a lyric baritone in the first half of the twentieth century. A close friend of Peter Warlock in particular, Goss was heavily involved in reviving interest in traditional folksongs, which he orchestrated and performed himself.

L’amour de moi is a well-known fifteenth-century French chanson that John Goss published in an arrangement by Hubert Foss back in 1929. However, Goss independently wrote his own arrangement, pitched in a better key for medium voices than Foss’s version, and it was rediscovered in a manuscript dossier of songs, written in Goss’s own hand, in 2008. This Fand publication is the arrangement’s first appearance in print.

Update, December 2021: An audio recording is now available of the song being performed in its original French by Giles Davies (baritone) and John Mitchell (piano).